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Madison Square-hand dyed fabric, commercial pattern
close up of stitching
Seeing Squares-hand dyed fabric, commercial pattern
close up of stitching
Quilting line and Color - sample from book
close up of stitching

Madison Square is a great pattern for working in an intuitive approach.  Using two color families, along with a neutral background color, the pattern makes up to a 50" X 60" quilt. Our sample uses a graduated hand dyed fabrics, giving a nice selection of  values for each color family. We have specially hand dyed kits to complete the quilt in the colors used in our sample.  The quilt could be sewn in a variety of colors, using our graduating hand dyed panels. Madison Square Kit

Buttonhole Quilt

Buttonhole quilt pattern sewn with bali fabrics
back view of same quilt
Buttonhole quilt pattern sewn with bali fabrics

One of our favorite patterns, the Buttonhole quilt sews up quickly and accurately.  The first images is a quilt sewn with  two bundles of fat 1/4s (14 pieces each) which easily completed the  quilt top.  One bundle  for the back of fat 1/4's was used for the quilt back  (an additional 2 meters of fabric is required for the border and binding)

Winter in the Twilight Zone

Winter in the Twilight Zone- Stitches version
detail image - decorative stitching,beads & paintstiks
detail image - decorative stitching,beads & paintstiks
detail image - decorative stitching,beads & paintstiks

This great wallhanging can be made into any width or height, by simply making the fabric strips wider or longer.  We cut ours 44" long (selvage to selvage) and 12" wide.  The assembly of this quilt is simple: lay two fabrics lenghtwise, so they overlap by approximately 3-4"  Then cut a gentle wavy edge, cutting through both fabrics at the same time.  These are then sewn together with a 1/4' seam.  Full directions for this technique are found in the pattern.

Art Quilts

Raw edeged fused applique, couched threads, painted with Lumiere & Neopaque pain
Close up of Sailboats, couched thread, painting
Step #1, fused and stitched with invisible thread
Step #2, painted with dye na flow and neopague paint
Finished raw edge applique,painted, stitched art quilt
Close up of finished quilt
green house pattern, fused applique, painted details
addition of free motion stitching
addition of free motion stitching
finished wall hanging

We have just received a shipment of lovely art quilt patterns.  The finished size of this sailboat pattern is 18" H X 24" W .    We enlarged it by another 25 % with a photocopier to make our sample larger.  This particular  pattern is considered  complex,. because is has a large number of pieces. Patterns come with a full set instructions along with hints for fusing and finishing the quilt.

Sewing with Dupioni silk

Original design, dupioni silk
Pillow pattern by Vanilla House - Silk Therapy
Original design using silk duiponi
Eclipse - dupioni silk, pattern available

 We have just received a large selection of dupioni silks in a range of rich intense colors. The first sample, shows   what we did with the silk collection named Summer Carnival.  For this quilt, Wendy used 11 of these jewel toned fat 1/4s for the quilt. The quilt could be sightly larger if all 13 fat  1/4's from the collection were used.  Random shapes were cut and assembled into a pleasing design.  Quilting followed the geometric lines created by the shapes of the blocks.The finished measurements of this quilt are appoximately 56" X 48"

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