Sunrise Quilt Studio

I didn't get around to any quilting today. The day was filled with running errands and doing laundry. Monday's are usually house-cleaning days, but today that was pushed aside. I did get the bathrooms cleaned, but that's all. Tomorrow is another day. My landscape quilt digest is having a challenge where we all work from the same pattern and create a landscape quilt. The challenge just started today and we have until September 1st to complete our quilt. I'm anxious to get started. In the meantime, I'm trying to learn new techniques in embellishment as well as gaining perspective in landscape quilts. I'm reading everything I can find on the web, looking for instructional and inspirational videos on youtube. Viewing work of other landscape artists is also helpful. I have a long list of websites in my "favorites" folder on the computer to look at anytime day or night. Most of my landscapes are not realistic looking. I chose fabrics for color and texture an...

This one is a one-patch quilt with Christmas fabrics and a snowmen border.

Here are Joe's quilts that I have finished so far - except for the binding. My plan is to do all the binding once all the quilting is done. Double 9 Patch Pinwheel Log Cabin Trip Around the World Bird One Patch I still have 4 more of Joe's quilts to complete :) Susan

Today I'm working on Joe's Pinwheel quilts. It's made with cat themed fabric and solid blues and black. This is a large quilt - 108" x 102" - so I had to piece the batting. I'm quilting it with a large meander so I can avoid those dense intersections where 8 seams come together! Those are impossible to quilt through without breaking or bending a needle, and I definately don't want to have to deal with the problems that causes my machine again! I really need to photograph Joe's quilts so I can post them here! Susan

Spring Mountain Range Utah Sunrise Both of these quilts are hand appliqued and machine quilted. They both use Hobb's 80/20 batting. Most of the fabrics are commercial, with a hand-dyed fabric in the sky of Spring Mountain Range.

Autumn Mountains Rocky Mountains I Rocky Mountains II Rocky Mountains III Serenity Beach These are small landscape quilts from 8"x10" to 30"x35". All are machine quilted. Serenity Beach is machine appliqued, and the other quilts are all hand appliqued. I used Hobb's 80/20 batting.

This afternoon I finished Joe's Trip Around the World quilt. It's a lap-sized quilt in pinks, purples, and beiges. It's really pretty. I quilted a freehand victorian feather in the outer border. I made sections in the quilt with some straightline quilting to showcase the center diamond where I quilted a victorian feather wreath. I also quilted sections out to the corners where I quilted more victorian feathers. The spaces between the other straight line stitching I quilted some stipples. Photo to come. Susan