original applique patterns inspired by the world around us
In February I had the wonderful opportunity to teach the ladies of the Village Quilter’s of Bluff Lake, IL in a virtual Workshop. This workshop, and my own Woodland Fern table runner pattern inspired me…. challenged me to create a quilt for March. And it’s green, not a color I instinctively design in…and I like it! Now you can create it, too. Read on to find out more!
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“Taste and See that the Lord is good.”
May Day (22” x 22”) for hand or machine reverse applique. “The way we see impacts the art (quilts) we make, the lives we live and the worlds we build. We were created to see with eyes of wonder and creative astonishment at the infinite beauty within all things (and around us).”- Stephen Roach (Margaret Willingham)
May Day: “May your days be beautiful like the blooms of May”
“We were created to see with eyes of wonder and creative astonishment at the infinite beauty within all things,” says Stephen Roach. It was my eyes of wonder that found that tidbit of beauty that became the quilt pattern May Day (22” x 22”). Read on to find out more…,
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Homemade Valentines….Tatted lace doilies…. tulip festivals. Such are the memories that mingled in my imagination to create Tulips & Lace Quilt XI. These random memories are more than just events from my past, but filled with the intangible feelings that give them lasting meaning. Read the story of this quilt pattern to find out more…..
Read MoreHospitality Quilt: “Welcome, friends! With Open Arms and Open Hearts!”
It is March/ April 2020. Covid-19 is running rampant. People are dying. People are recovering. And we are under stay-at-home orders globally. And the quilt I am making is Hospitality, a collaboration with Cherrywood Fabrics and Siesta Silver Jewelry. Does that seem a contradiction to you? A quilt named Hospitality when we are in isolation? I think it is actually a fitting quilt for such a time as this.
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