PUBLICATIONS
International Quilt Festival Exhibit 2019
After Christmas 2018, I challenged myself to use up my scraps so I started making 11" log cabin blocks from all the colors I had in my stash. For about 8 days, that was all I did. I remember my husband pushing (squeezing) a big comfy office chair through the doorway of my sewing room so that my back would stop hurting so much ...because I was at my machine for 8+ hours a day working on this enormous, ambitious project!
My goal was to not buy a single fabric for this quilt, and I succeeded. Even the back was constructed using bits and pieces from around my sewing room. I thought that by making this quilt, I would finally use up all the scraps in my scrap bins once and for all, but somehow, I didn't even make a dent (this should not have surprised me)!
In January, the International Quilt Festival began planning an exhibit called A Celebration of Color, and this quilt fit all the requirements. To my delight, it was accepted into the exhibit and was shown in Chicago, IL and Houston, TX in 2019.
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I quilted this on my first longarm, a hand-guided, non-stitch-regulated Gammill Premier, using Hobbs Tuscany 100% wool batting. The pantograph I chose was called Bountiful Feathers by Hermione Agee, one of my favorites because I loved the density and it was really fun for me to quilt out. Something about getting to bounce the machine around all those little points gave me great satisfaction, and it almost tricks the eye into thinking it is all free-motion quilting.
Limone Cake, Marble Cake, and Carrot Cake patterns by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Design
In May 2024, I got to piece and quilt three samples for Doug's new layer cake patterns: Limone Cake, Marble Cake, and Carrot Cake!
Chatsworth quilt pattern and block-of-the-month by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Design
In May 2023, I was pleased to piece the blue quilt sample for Doug's Chatsworth quilt, offered as a BOM through participating quilt shops. You can find more information about this book here.
Stashtastic 2 by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Design
Sample piecing for over a dozen quilts! Buy the book here.
American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine, August 2022
E2E computerized quilting for "A Fine View" by Anna Dineen. Buy the magazine here.
You've Got a Point! by Anna Dineen
E2E hand-guided quilting for 5 quilts - Corn Maze (cover quilt), Thistledown, Spinning Wheels, Queens Road, and Ribbon Rosettes.
Tabletastic! 3 by Doug Leko of Antler Quilt Design
A Scrapbook of Quilts by Carrie Nelson and Joanna Figueroa
In Fall 2020, Carrie Nelson contacted me and asked me to piece and machine quilt a quilt for her upcoming book with Joanna Figueroa, A Scrapbook of Quilts. The finished quilt is called Oregon Trail and is the navy and orange one pictured below. I also had the privilege to quilt several of the other projects in this book, including Nine Across, Cathedral Garden, and Pirouette. You can purchase a copy of the book here.
Quilt Sampler Magazine, Spring/Summer 2021
Snapshot Stars, designed, pieced, and quilted by me
Red & White Quilts Book and Exhibit at 2018 International Quilt Festival
In late 2017, I got the opportunity to custom quilt a quilt that would later be displayed in the Red & White Quilts exhibit at the International Quilt Festival in 2018. Walk This Way was designed and pieced by Carrie Nelson, and I used a mix of free-motion quilting and custom quilting using rulers. All the quilts were compiled into a book, available here.
Moda Blockheads
This year-long 48-block quilt-along that began in 2017 was compiled into a book that included the patterns for each block as well as settings for finished quilts by prominent quilt designers, including Lisa Bongean, Betsy Chutchian, Lynne Hagmeier, Jo Morton, Jan Patek, and Carrie Nelson.
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I quilted Carrie Nelson's amazing quilt using a design called Arabesque. You can purchase the book here.
Moda All-Stars On a Roll
Brigitte Heitland's Pineapple quilt, a mix of vertical and horizontal straight line quilting. Buy the book here.
Moda All-Stars Mix It Up!
Bubble & Froth, free-motion quilted using spiral feathers and echoed swirls. Buy the book here.
Christmas Figs by Joanna Figueroa
Poinsettia Trio Tabletopper, custom-quilted with rulers and free-motion. Buy the book here.
Various Trade Show/Market Quilts
