Inspiration

 

Precious Tears by Annette van Leeuwen

Fifty Shades of Green by Ingrid Huber

The title of the quilt is “Fifty Shades of Green” as I used almost exactly 50 different green shades in this quilt. How could I choose another one?

Circles and Crescents quilt

Made by Elizabeth McCormack

Adapted from an original design by Jutta Hufnagel

With A Twist by Ingrid Huber

2,55 x 2,55m

Sorbet on Blue Quilt

On a roll having completed her Half Triangle Rectangle Quilt, Maria set out to use up her Sorbet scraps. In Sorbet on Blue, the Sorbet clusters appear almost to 'melt' into one another... living up to their name, perhaps.

Maria's use of colour and quilting are unerringly striking, leaving you hungry for more. Go to her page and follow her @maria-dlugosch.

Half Rectangle Triangle Quilt

We all have our go-to palettes - shades we feel relaxed and confident with. But sometimes it's fun to explore beyond our comfort zone.

Maria Dlugosch did just that. Starting with a bundle of Sorbet, she added Alpine - both paler than she would normally choose. Forced to recalibrate her thoughts, she then dug into her stash for some deeper contrasts.

The result: her gorgeous Half Rectangle Triangle quilt.

Her delightful mix of colors just drew me in, says @aquilterstable.

Maria's attention to detail and her longarm skills add so much interest to the finished quilt that it's hard to take your eyes off it.

I like the result very much now, admits Maria with characteristic understatement.

Maria's use of colour and quilting are unerringly striking, leaving you hungry for more. Go to her page and follow her @maria-dlugosch.

Advice for Quilter

Size: 280 cm x 230 cm

It was on a visit to Pennsylvania, US that Ingrid Huber's eye was caught by artefacts for sale offering Advice from Nature in the form of poems.

Ingrid explains...

Funny but also thoughtful advice was offered by animals, plants, landscape... whatever you can think of. I liked them a lot.

On the next leg of the trip, to IQS Houston, Ingrid's imagination was fired and a plan began to crystallise.

Here I got the idea about advice that might be given by the utensils I use as a quilter… On the flight home I made the first notes and within weeks I had the advice from sixteen utensils.

Back home, whilst researching Ilan Shamir's Advice from Nature, she came across Advice from a Quilt. Gaining permission to reproduce the poem, Ingrid's quilt design was complete!

Interspersed between the sampler-style colour blocks are Ingrid's own poems, crafted with gentle humour and offering pointers to help quilters honour their own talents.

This is one of my favourite quilts – it shows so much of my creativity. It's strange to praise myself, but I am really proud of this quilt!

'Jett' by Lynne Elwell

"It is made entirely from Oakshott fabrics and measures 84” by 90”.  It is very simply strip quilted by machine because I didn’t want the quilting to detract from the rainbow of colour.  The quilt is all my own design. The fourth photo is of the reverse of the quilt which is an abstract patchwork of leftover Oakshott fabrics.  It is a lovely design in itself."

Temperature Quilt by Mary Menzer

Size : 53" x 79", 134 x 200 cms.

This quilt will be added to Make Modern Magazine's November Temperature Quilt Gallery.

Miniquilt

Patchwork blocks sewn and cut apart again for no apparent reason - simply because I can. Mixed well and sewn back together.

17 x 17 inches
Quilted with a Bernina Q24.

Pattern Design Bethanne Nemesh
Size 46 x 38 inch
Quilted with a Bernina Q24

"My Scandinavia quilt, based on the ‘Barstow Quilt’ pattern by Carolyn Friedlander from Robert Kaufman. The original quilt was a cot size so I doubled the size of the strips and kept adding more until I got the size I wanted. I was able to make a small cushion out of the leftover bits (I hate waste). 

And now I have just had to order a little more Scandinavia  fabric in order to make a version of the appliqué by Lynn Templeton in your Inspiration gallery. This will hang above the headboard. Eventually. The book is ordered!"

"This is the forth quilt I made with this Butterfly-Design. I used quite a lot of scraps from your fabric – and so it reminds me of so many quilts I made in more than 10 years with them. And the joy I had (and still have) … I am so glad I discovered your both at my first visit in Birmingham. "

"After you out phased Longshott, I found some fat eighth packs at Quilt Cabin – and some of the Scandinavia Longshott as well. For quite some time I thought about making a quilt with this 60° Triangles. And the soft colours from Scandinavia gave me the idea to this quilt. I combined them with red Grayshott (also from Quilt Cabin) and are very happy with the result."

"This is a very special quilt for me – I only could make it because you are always so generous and add lots of swatches to my orders … I collected them and realized this spring there are 142 of them, so I made this simple quilt. I needed one square more, so I added a piece of one of the first fabrics I bought from you."

"I'm so/sew pleased to share with you a peaceful, pieceful and loving finish to my 20 month project... Your gorgeous Oakshott cottons were used as the solid backgrounds in each quilt block. Piecing these blocks on vintage sewing machines, oftentimes with Pixie's help, brought me bits of daily peace and love. Machine quilting a great big heart and echoing the peace sign continued to provide peace and love during this trying year. I found my heart, soul and psyche smiling while working on this project. It is now on our bed, and we cover in peace and love each night".

A Child’s Bliss

Quilt 2010 50 x 50 cm

"The atmosphere of the days before Christmas touches something deep in me, the memory of a blissful experience, more than 60 years ago. I was about four years old; it was Christmas’ Eve, December 24. Not until the evening did I get to see the Christmas tree, after waiting the whole day. Then the door opened and what I saw there was a room filled with light, so much lighter than the real light of the candles in the tree. A music box played a Christmas carol and this was mixed with the sound of little bells tinkling… I was a very happy child!"

BLUE HOUR 

Quilt 2019 

192 x 125 cm

 

Materials:

Cotton (Oakshott Fabrics, Moda Grunge)

Wool

Textile Paint (Stewart Gill)

 

Techniques:

Patchwork

Longarm Quilting

Felting

Painting on Fabric

 

Inspiration:

The blue hour is the period of twilight in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage when the sun is at a significant depth below the horizon and residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue shade, which differs from the one visible during most of a clear day.

I experienced this blue hour in the morning before sunrise in the Austrian Alps. It is just magical and enchanting.

https://bilderleben.de/#!jig[1]/FL/50661587486

 

Aurora Productions chose this work to print a card, please take a look:

https://aurora-productions.com/het-blauwe-uur?manufacturer_id=166

 

You can see more work of me also published by Aurora Productions:

https://aurora-productions.com/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=166

Pattern by Brigitte Heitland.

"Striving to keep to a blue palette, an exploration of how colour changes with the warp and weft of Oakshott fabrics. It was June, Covid was fresh and lockdown was recent. Once quilted, it became my favourite".

3/5 artworks made during the AQ 100 Day Project during 2020.

"Frightened by the changes to our environment, yet thinking of the summer to come. Craving working with hot colours, it was still deep winter and my heart was taking a holiday in the tropics. Still exploring warp and weft and the colour changes with these unique fabrics."

5/5 artworks made during the AQ 100 Day Project during 2020.

Designed by Jessamie Self last year for her partner, every block had to have at least two Oakshott fabrics in, because of the amazing contrasts they give. Quilted by Trudi Wood.

Backgrounds made with Oakshott fabrics and Essex linen for the skulls. To go with Jessamie Self's Flameseeker quilt.