Sunrise Quilt Studio

This is a quilt I completed for my quilt guilds charity program. We make small quilts to give to the local foster children. The blocks in this quilt were made by another quilter. I just put them together and quilted the quilt. I used an overall pattern called "Swirl". The photos came out blurry for the 2nd charity quilt I completed so I'll rephoto that quilt and post later.

The quilt above is one of several painted quilts I completed a few years ago. I painted the background and let it dry, then painted the flowers and leaves using a "one-stroke" technique. After the pieces dried, I squared them up and added the borders. The paints are acrylic craft paints mixed with textile medium. I've got the urge to do more painting on fabric, but this time using Setacolor paints and painting fabric for my landscape quilts. I have to get the paints as well as complete some other projects first. "Flight at Sunrise" is my first priority in my own list of quilts to complete at this point. Now that I have some hand-dyed fabrics to use for borders, I just need to set aside the time to work on it. The wholecloth quilt "Arabesque" is entered into IMQA's Machine Quilter's Showcase. I decided to hold off on entering "Lily" for now. I think I'll enter it in the Missouri State Fair first, and then decide whether or not to e...

This quilt top is the Mystery quilt that we are making on Learning Fiber Arts. I just finished the borders this afternoon. I'm not sure I'm happy with the 9-patch blocks in the outer border, but I'll leave it as is for now. Arabasque is being blocked! I rinsed the water soluble thread and blue pen out this morning and blocked the quilt on my bedroom floor. I had to chase the dog off of it once. I had forgotten he was in the room and he decided he had to walk across the quilt to get to me! He only got 2 paws on the quilt before I stopped him. Of course, he left dirty footprints behind (he had just been outside and the ground is muddy) and I had to clean the spots. Luckily they came out easily. Tomorrow I'll trim it and start the binding. I have to get it photographed and the entry form sent in to arrive by Friday the 20th. I'll be cutting it close! I have another small wallhanging that I have been contemplating entering into the show, too. I haven't made up my m...

I'm sooo happy! I finished the quilting this evening on my wholecloth. This is a photo of it hanging on my design wall in my studio. I'm too tired to block it tonight, so it's just hanging there and hopefully will be in a good spot to keep clean until I can rinse it and block it tomorrow. It shrunk about 1 1/4 inches in width after all the quilting was completed. Not too bad. The photo above is a close-up of one of the corner motifs. You can also see where I added the straight-line stitching inbetween what I had already quilted in the outer border. Now the quilting is 1/4 inch apart. The quilt is hanging pretty straight even right off the machine. I'm hoping that means it will block well and be easy to bind, and will hang straight once it's all done.

I found some time the past 2 days to work on my wholecloth. I have the McTavishing done in the larger sections of the quilt as show in this photo. Here is another view showing the McTavishing. I used a micro-stipple in the narrow area between the corded border and the scroll motifs in the outer border. This photo shows the McTavishing I started as I move more towards the center of the quilt. I micro-stippled in the loop areas. You can probably see where I wrote the word "micro" in the areas so I wouldn't get confused and quilt those areas with McTavishing. I still have lots of hours to go with quilting, but I'm happy to see that I'm making some progress. I hope to have it done, blocked and bound by Monday so I can photograph it and send in the entry forms for Machine Quilters Showcase . The Showcase is May 11th-16th and I have signed up for several classes this year. I'm really looking forward to attending. I'm not expecting my quilt to place, but it...

Millie has nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger Award! Thank you so much Millie. This award is meant to be passed along and brighten another blogger's day. When passed along, it is asked that it be passed to 7 more bloggers that you feel are "Kreativ" and that you list 7 things that you, the award recipient, love. It is so hard to narrow down the bloggers I follow to only 7, but here goes: Janet - a wonderful fiber artist Shirley - a tireless fiber arts instructor and owner of a fiberarts teaching group Sandy - another quilter with limitless talent Angela - whose talent covers many areas of fiber arts from BOM's to PC's to Art Journal quilts, and she also has a Rhapsody quilt in progress! Debra - who has a beautiful miniature quilt posted and don't forget to check out all the BOM links on her sidebar Gudrun - a fellow professional longarm quilter with tons of talent Gina - another talented quilter from the UK Please checkout these ladies' blogs -...

I don't know how I forgot to add KenQuilt to my post about longarm machines, but I did. They have a full line of longarm machines, too. You can reach their website here .