Quilting flowers

The photo above © Terri StaatsThis quilting pattern / tutorial is available from Pinterest.... Full Post: Flower Quilt Blocks

Meet the Cosmos kit! These vivid pink, daisy-like flowers have been known to symbolize balance and harmony for their crisp, even petals, but also ‘joy in love and life’ in the Victorian era! Flowering in gardens across the world for many months of the year, these striking blooms attract bees, butterflies and birds to the garden. A combination of Liberty London fabrics, vintage patterned pink/white fabrics are combined with plenty of specialty pieces to add texture and detail to your piece…

Bon Bon #5 Hand dyed and commercial cottons and silks Fused and machine quilted. 30.5 x30.5" Ginkos for Judy H...

I wanted to let everyone know that I FINALLY finished the updates to my class handbooks yesterday. I have a few Linen Wholecloth Quilt updates that I still need to send out but otherwise I am DONE! Wooo hooo! This is a project that takes me nearly 2 months to complete. I whine every year about having to do it, but once it's done, I am ever so thankful for new, updated and prettier versions. For those of you who are unfamiliar with them, please visit the "handbooks" section of my website. I…

Here's Part 2 of some of the most fabulous floral quilts we've seen at recent quilt shows (also see Part 1 ). For some real life "eye candy"...

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A beautiful applique quilt seen at the Arizona State Fair, this detail view and the previous close-up show just a bit of the glory created in fabric. I was most impressed by the buttonhole stitch used to fix down the patches of fabric. Well done! This entry is by Gerlinde Hruzek, in the class for CC/S Seniors, Age 65 and Over, Class 183 Pictoral. She won a First Place prize for this quilt.

Quilts came to Japan at the end of 1970 as a new hobby from America. Since then, the Japanese quilters have developed their own style using...

This the latest experiment, done on a fat quarter sized piece of fabric. I wasn't sure what I was going to try this week. I had a notion that I was going to do a design based on an unusual beer can, but when I visited Mary Ellen's blog and saw her wonderful pictures of her trip to Germany, the whole plan changed. She has a photo of a beautiful garden full of autumn flowers, so I decided to have a go at rudbeckias. First I did the flower in the centre, with the three flower heads coming from…

Probably as a result of all the napkin stitching, I have managed to develop tendonitis in my left hand which requires a rest from any hand sewing until the thumb heals. I thought this might be a good time to post some of my vintage quilt booklets, so I have started the process of scanning the page

Michiyo Yamamoto Chicago "Spring Full Bloom" shown at 2011 International Quilt Festival, Houston "...memories of cherry blossoms in the evening moonlight..." Several more detail shots (and other IQF 2011 quilts) at this flickr stream

made of hand dyed fabrics pieced in my own design

LaLa Ha on Instagram: "Another appliqué block for my #gardentrellisquilt is complete! This is a lovely pattern by @hatcreekquilts Thanks, Deirdre! Now it's time to prep another block. #appliqué #appliquepaper #hugsnkissesappliquepaper #1930squilt #scrapquilt #reproductionfabrics"