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The Quilting Hiker

I will be closing this site by the end of the year. So come join me at my new site.

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Where Did I Go?

You haven’t heard from me in a while. You might have been wondering where I went.

Well, I’ve been busy redesigning my website. It’s almost finished. The site will have more quilting tutorials with printables for you to use.

I will be launching the new site at the end of the month. Watch for more information.

Do you like my new logo?

Senior Center Samplers

I quilt for a few of the women who take a quilting class at the local senior center.  This past year, they all worked on a sampler quilt. It was interesting to see the various fabrics chosen by each.

Most were quilted with an all-over design. Two were custom quilted with specific designs in the blocks and with different design in the sashing. It was fun to choose designs for each.  Even though they are the same pattern.  They look very different. Each called for different quilting designs.

Which one do you like best?  Is it the color or the quilting?

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The Math Quilt

At least that’s what I call it.

It was made by one of my customers who has a math degree. She made it for a nephew, who is also a mathematician. It’s his wedding present to another mathematician.  So it is perfect!

The basic quilt is an enlargement of another quilt she made.  Then she put 4 appliques on it representing 4 different mathematical proofs.

• Tennebaum’s Proof of the Irrationality of the Square Root of 2
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Nicomachus’s Theorem
• Geometric Series

My only instructions were to not disrupt the proofs with my quilting.

The background fabric is actually white with a silver thread woven through similar to a shot-cotton.  A shot-cotton is woven with 2 different color threads, with one as the weft and one the warp.  It is a very modern-looking quilt.  I love the way it came out.

My only issue is I do not have high enough ceilings to hang this quilt.  So the bottom is on the floor.

I still have not heard if the bride and groom liked it or not?

I always enjoyed math when I was in school. So would this make you like math?

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Dimentional Illusion

This is a quilt I quilted a couple of years ago for a customer and was reminded of it when I saw it in a local guild show.  This customer is an accomplished art quilter.  She does amazing work.  But her pieces are usually small and non-traditional.  This piece was made for a special exhibit at a group studio she belongs to.  The goal was to make the quilt appear 3 dimensional.

It is a traditional bow tie quilt with specific color placement which gives it the illusion of dimension.  She got the idea from a pattern, of which I do not know the name.  I used a greek key design in the bow tie area and I used a background fill of interconnecting rectangles and squares which gives it a woven fabric texture.

The center is set off with some straight-line quilting and more of texture background fill. I then added interlocking circles in the center.

You can really see the quilting on the plain light color backing.  It was hung in the show in such a way to enable me to get a good picture of the back.

The quilting is all free motion and ruler work.  This was before I upgraded my A1 with Quilt-EZ system.

I was pleasantly surprised to see it again at the local guild show.  What a treat.

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