Random Items from Unpacking

Unpacking the studio boxes is slow, and as I go through them, I find parts from the past decades that offer a glimpse of the workshops I took, often as the host for my regional quilt club. These paper-pieced blocks I made in a one-day workshop with Karen K. Stone many years back. She has a beautiful sense for pattern.

In the Garden Vicki's Version

Vickie Coykendall used my pattern "In the Garden" to make this quilt years ago. It was the first thing spotted at the Genesee Valley Quilt Show. When I spoke with Vickie, we agreed that although it was originally a raffle quilt, why not again. What do you say? Here is the original. Pattern on my website.

 

More from Melbourne

One from the Elite Taiwanese Quilt Collection caught my eye last week. I've featured a rose in a quilt that I developed into a paper-pieced pattern -- "In the Garden". This one is titled "The Wind Lifts Water, Petals Flutter" by YinPing Tuan. It's a good style between absolute realism and abstraction. 

 

In the Garden

More than a dozen years ago I drafted this pattern for a paper pieced raffle quilt. That quilt was about 8' square, this is about 5' square. I no longer use paper piecing for quilt design, but those who do love this effect. I've added the pattern to my website store. If that's your thing, you might like "In the Garden".