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Two In-Progress Quilts

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I have two quilts that I’ve been working on for a while.  The tops for both are complete, and I’ve made good progress quilting one of them.  There are a lot of similarities between these quilts–both use fabric that I designed digitally in Photoshop and Illustrator and that I had printed at Spoonflower.com; both combine those fabrics with  my hand-dyed fabrics; and both use a circle motif.

Over the next posts, I’ll detail the process I went through in creating these quilts along with the techniques I used to put them together. Continue reading →

Creating Moonstruck — Making the Design into Something I Could Sew

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In my previous post I showed how I developed the design (below) for Moonstruck.

With the overall design done, I next had to figure out how I could make this into a quilt top.  My plan was to use the rust-dyed fabric in the smaller circles (the Moons).  For the larger arcs, I planned to use an alternating green and blue gradation of over-dyed rust fabric–from light in the upper left to dark in the lower right.  The Moons were the focus and the arcs the background. Continue reading →

Creating Moonstruck — Initial Design

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My quilt Moonstruck recently returned home after a long trip with the Rust-Tex Collection, including its debut at the Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago (2010) and a visit to England for the Festival of Quilts (photo from the show below, Moonstruck is the blue and green one).

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Creating a Quilt, Part 2 — Finalizing the Design

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In my previous post, I walked through the initial design process I used to create the quilt Prairie Grasses.  I started with this photo, drew sketches to simplify the design and started on looking at value studies.

My first two value studies, shown below, were of the original sketch.  I liked each of these, but I thought it would be more interesting to combine them in some way.

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