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Online Quilt Magazine
Develop Your
Quilting
Creativity
“Trail of
Thread”
-Book
Creating 3D Illusions
in Your Quilts
.com
PROJECT –
Charm Pack
Quilt With
3-Part
Sashing
What’s New from
The Fat Quarter Shop
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Develop Your Quilting Creativity………….…..…………………………………………………………………………................................
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Creating 3D Illusions in Your Quilts ………....…………………..……………………………………………………………………………..….
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PROJECT – Charm Pack Quilt With 3-Part Sashing ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
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What’s New From The Fat Quarter Shop….………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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Trail of Thread Book ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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BLOCK OF THE MONTH – Art Square Block…………………………..................................................................................
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Today's Tips.............................................................................................................................................................
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YES – We Want To hear From You...........................................................................................................................
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Letter from the Editor
Jody Anderson
Hi!
It’s time to get creative, and this month we have a great article on ‘Developing Your Quilting Creativity’
from Canadian quilt artist and teacher Elaine Quehl. Penny also covers how to create 3D illusions in your
quilts with careful colour placement in 3D blocks.
Rose has another fab project that I’m sure you’ll enjoy, and I think this is a great way of using and
showing off that spare Charm pack you have sitting around at home…
I was lucky enough to get talking this month too with Linda, an author of historical fiction, based on her
own family’s pioneering history. Her books are full of fantastic quilting stories and well worth checking
out properly, and we have an excerpt from one for you to read this month.
Remember, we now also have our Premium Online Quilt Magazine Subscription available too, and
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Have a great month!
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Develop Your Quilting Creativity
By Elaine Quehl from www.equarelle.ca
My mother, grandmothers, and great
grandmothers were all quilters, so it would be fair
to say that I was destined to make quilts! What I
never expected was that one day I would come to
design my own quilts, call myself a quilt artist and
make a living on the teaching circuit.
I was blown away, and knew that I wanted to
design my own quilts that expressed something
about me. I had a huge problem though: no one,
including me, considered me to be creative. In
my family it had always been my sister who was
considered creative, showing talent at drawing
and painting. Today, however, she is an
accountant, and I travel around the country
teaching others how to be creative and make
their own quilts.
It wasn’t until 1996, when I started losing my
mother to Alzheimer’s disease, that I signed up
for an evening class on traditional quilt making at
the local high school. I soon found, however, that
I didn’t want to follow patterns exactly, and it
was not usually my goal to make a quilt just like
the one in the picture. When I saw my first art
quilts at a Canadian provincial show around 2000
“Standing Ovation”
I always say that I was born with the quilting
gene.
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So how did I come to make art quilts? Simply,
through a lot of hard work, otherwise known as
practice. I have spent many years working very
hard at developing my artistic skills, and I am still
working on them today. I think what stood me in
good stead was my willingness to experiment and
make “mistakes”.
like to share a few suggestions with you about
how you can begin to develop your own
creativity.
At first I had no end goal in mind, only to make
better work and to make my own work. One
thing that has always made my heart sing is value
contrast and the illusion of depth in art quilts,
and that is what I focussed on most. It wasn’t
long before I was teaching, and four years ago I
left my conventional job to make a living as a fulltime quilt artist, teacher and fabric dyer.
In my classes today I have one rule, and it is that
no one is allowed to say “I am not creative”. I
simply do not believe the myth that we are either
born creative or we aren’t. We are all creative;
some have simply developed their creativity more
than others. What I urge students to say instead
is “I am working on it (my creativity).” I would
“Kissing Joy”
My first suggestion is to keep yourself inspired!
Of course you may not feel inspired every day,
but there are a few things you can do to help.
Attend an art quilt show, check out some art
magazines, including art in other media, visit an
art gallery, spend time with nature. Nature is my
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biggest source of inspiration, so I always take my
camera with me to capture images that inspire
me. I prefer to work with my own images so I
have no need to worry about copyright
permissions, and so that I am working from my
own vision. On days when you don’t feel
particularly inspired, review these images.
A large part of keeping yourself inspired involves
embracing newness and change. I know that I am
far more creative when I am in a new
environment, so trips and travel often inspire a
quilt. But it doesn’t have to be an exotic trip; it
could be just a different route to work. Often we
don’t even remember driving to work in the
morning because we do it every day and don’t
even notice the route we take anymore.
I can also tell you that keeping a sketchbook is
very good for developing your creativity. I snip
images that inspire me, including my own
photographs, then I can create designs, sketch
layouts and compositions, and audition colour.
You do not have to be good at drawing for this.
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The sketchbook is also a very good way for you to
record fleeting ideas. Life is busy and we are
often multi-tasking, and often a great idea is lost
because we don’t write it down. Once we write it
down, we save it, and can then build on it later.
I highly recommend taking classes to develop
your skills. If you don’t have suitable classes in
your area, there are many on-line classes for art
quilters. Once you have a number of techniques
under your belt, you will have a tool box to use
when you want to express yourself. But it isn’t
just about the techniques. It is also very
important to learn about composition and design.
There are many good books out there directed
specifically at art quilters, and I also found that
looking at art in other media helped me to train
my eye for better composition. Any art training is
going to help you here.
My next suggestion is that you will need to
practice, practice, practice. Not every work you
make is going to be a masterpiece! This is true
for all of us. I spend a great deal of time
travelling for the purposes of lecturing and
teaching. When I deliver my lecture called
“Retrospective’, I take audiences through my
quilting journey. As I see the images on the
screen I am often able to see how my older works
could have been improved. I consider many of
these older works to be practice pieces that got
me to where I am today.
“Branching Out”
My final suggestion to you is to pay close
attention to the things you tell yourself! If you
have a negative soundtrack running in your head,
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replace that negative track with something more
positive. For example, if you hear “I’m not
creative, I’m no good a this, this looks awful, I’m
no artist”, stop right there. Instead give yourself
permission to experiment and keep an open mind
about the outcome. I don’t really believe in using
the word “mistakes” to refer to work we consider
unsuccessful. These are practice pieces, part of
our evolution as an artist. Replace negative
thoughts with something that serves you better,
like “I’m just beginning, I’m working on my
creativity, my work will improve with practice”.
So just keep on practicing!
About the Author: Elaine Quehl is an award-winning
Canadian quilt artist, teacher, and dyer who specializes in
colourful and intricately-stitched pieced and appliquéd art
quilts. Elaine’s work has been juried into numerous exhibits
at the national and international level, and has been widely
published, including 500 Art Quilts, and Art Quilt Portfolio:
Natural World. A resident of Ottawa, she is in great demand
as a teacher, and travels across the country delivering
workshops and lectures to colleges, summer art programs,
guilds, conferences and shops. See more on Elaine at:
www.equarelle.ca or her Blog:
www.elainequehl.blogspot.com
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Creating 3D Illusions in Your Quilts
By Penny Halgren from www.How-To-Quilt.com
Periodically I get questions about how to make a
hollow cube. These are fun little 3 dimensional
boxes that look like the light is shining through.
They are relatively easy to make. The key is the
placement of the fabric in your patches.
It turns out that the relative color value of the
fabric is more important than the actual color.
As you look at the Hollow Cubes, you’ll see that
each “cube” contains a light, medium and dark
fabric – all in the same color family.
This was relatively easy to accomplish since most
of the fabric was hand dyed.
As you choose the fabrics for your quilt with
illusion, take care as you choose the fabrics to be
sure that you aren’t mixing a yellow-green with a
blue-green and expecting it to look dimensional.
The next most important thing is to choose a light
source that is away from your quilt and keep in
mind what that position is as you place your
patches.
In this little wall hanging, the light source is above
and left of the quilt.
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How can I tell?
the same relative place, since the light is also
coming from the top left.
The easiest way is to think of how the sun shines
and casts shadows.
Even though there are 3 different designs of
boxes in this wall hanging, since the placement of
the color value of the fabric is the same, the
overall effect of the wall hanging retains the 3dimensional look.
The lightest fabrics will be in the “full” sun – on
top of each of the blocks; and at the bottom of
these cubes, since they are hollow.
The darkest places will be where there is little sun
– the left sides of these cubes.
As I imagined the position of the sun, I placed the
lightest fabrics on the top of the cubes and the
inside bottom. The inside bottom can be light
since the sides are open, allowing light in.
The darkest sides of the cube are the ones in the
most shade.
Because the light source is on the left, the back of
the box gets more light than the back left side
and outside.
In this scrappy Tumbling Blocks quilt, I chose 3
fabrics for each cube and then placed them in
positions relative to each other.
As you look at the little wall hanging, notice how
the dark, medium and light fabrics are placed in
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A good beginning – but when I placed the cube in
the quilt, what is a light in one cube could be a
medium in another cube – thus creating an
interesting overall look, but not a consistent 3dimensional look.
Keeping these few things in mind as you make
your blocks and place them in your quilt will
create the success you want with your 3-D cubes.
About the Author:
Penny Halgren is a quilter of more than 27 years, and
enjoys sharing her love of quilting with others. Sign up
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PROJECT – Charm Pack Quilt with 3-part Sashing
By Rose Smith from www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
I made this quilt using a Moda charm pack and I've kept the actual quilt
pattern really simple so that I can show you a three part sashing that
really sets off the charm pack squares nicely.
A charm pack, if you haven't come across one before, is a set of 5"
squares. They are all different from each other but come from the
same range of fabric so that you know they will all co-ordinate.
There were 42 squares in the charm pack that I used, so I made my quilt seven rows of six blocks each.
The quilt finished size is about 54" by 60" and to make it I used the charm pack, 1 yard of red fabric and
1.1/2 yards each of black and cream fabric.
Begin by cutting 1.1/2" strips of cream fabric and cutting these into 84
lengths of 5" and 84 lengths of 7". I think I used 26 strips in total. Sew
a 5" strip to the top and bottom of each square and then sew a 7" strip
to each side so that the squares are framed by the cream fabric.
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For the charm pack quilt sashing I used 2" strips of red fabric with a 1"
black strip on either side. Sew these strips together along the length,
press and then cut into 7" lengths.
Sew one strip of sashing to the right hand edge of one charm square and
sew the next charm square to the right hand side of the sashing. Make
rows of six charm squares with five sashing strips between them - that is,
no sashing at the beginning and end of the row. You should end up with
seven rows of six squares each.
Before the sashing can be added between the rows, the cornerstones
need to be made. These are four patch units made by sewing together
1.3/4" strips of black and cream fabric along the long edge and then
cutting them at 1.3/4" intervals to make squares.
Sew these squares together in pairs with the black squares diagonal to
each other. This is one cornerstone. Sew a cornerstone between 7" strips
of sashing. For each row you will need six lengths of sashing and five
cornerstones.
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Sew a length of sashing with cornerstones to the bottom of the first row of
charm square blocks and then sew the second row of charm square blocks
to the bottom of the sashing. Take care each time to make sure that the
cornerstone is in line with the sashing above and below it between the
charm square blocks.
Continue adding sashing strips between each row to join the rows
together. Finally add a strip of sashing at the top and at the bottom of the
quilt. Actually I suppose it's strictly a border now. Make up two more
strips of sashing using seven sashing pieces and eight cornerstones so that
each strip begins and ends with a cornerstone and sew these to the sides
of the quilt. That's the charm pack quilt top complete and ready for
layering, quilting and binding. I think that it's really eye catching and that
three part sashing can of course be used in any quilt that you make.
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About the Author: Rose Smith was born and brought up in Zambia in Africa. She moved to the UK when she was 18 and now
lives in Shropshire, indulging her passion for quilting and sewing. She has sewn all her life - ‘anything that stood still long
enough’ in the words of her children - but now finds that patchwork and quilting have taken over her life. She indulges this
passion by posting patterns and tutorials on her website for all to share. www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
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Trail of Thread Book
By Linda Hubalek of www.LindaHubalek.com
This month, I was lucky enough to come across
author Linda Hubalek, who very kindly shared
part of her “Trail of Thread” book with us. This
series of books ties in quilts with Linda’s mother’s
pioneering family history, and makes for a
fascinating read. There’s a Trail of Thread Quilt
pattern included as well.
The John and Deborah Pieratt family traveled
from Kentucky, and the Margaret Ralston
Kennedy family from Ohio, to homestead beside
each other in Kansas. Their children, from the
North and the South, marry during the Civil War.
These books are written in letter form, covering
the years 1854 to 1865.
Find out what is was like for the thousands of
families who made the cross-country journey into
the unknown.
In this first book of the Trail of Thread book
series, in the form of letters she wrote on the
journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scenery,
the everyday events on the trail, and the task of
taking care of her family. Stories of humor and
despair, along with her ongoing remarks about
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camping, cooking, and quilting, make you feel as
if you pulled up stakes and are traveling with the
Pieratts too.
But hints of the brewing trouble ahead plagued
them along the way as people questioned their
motive for settling in the new territory. Why
didn’t a Southern family have slaves with them?
Would the Pieratts vote for or against legal
slavery in the new state? Though Deborah didn’t
realize it, her letters show how this trip affected
her family for generations to come…
Monday evening, April 3, 1854
farmer’s yard
Dear Betsy,
All the farms in Indiana that we've passed by
have been well kept. This area has been farmed
for about three or four decades, so homesteads,
orchards, and towns are well established.
We haven't seen any field work done yet since
it's early and has been so cold and wet. The White
River bottom boosts a dark, rich loam. Other
spots seem to be a more sandy soil. They grow a
variety of grains and grasses here, much more
than we did in Kentucky, since the land is better in
larger areas.
We stopped at a farm tonight to ask if there
was a creek nearby to camp at, and the couple
insisted we park in their yard. They seem to be
friendly enough, but I think they only invited us so
we would buy grain and food from them. We've
camped near several farms, and I must say these
were the most insistent people we've met.
I said no to the wife's pie, but I did buy a round
of cheese. She said it was made recently but
needed a good week to ripen properly. I had to
promise her we'd wait a few more days before we
cut into it.
She was a snooper, too — wanted to see what we
had in our wagons. I tried to be as polite as
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possible when she raised our wagon end flaps and
lifted box lids. When she tried that with Mary's
wagon, Nellie, who was inside the wagon, just
"happened" to strongly tap her foot on the
provisions box to slam the lid on the women's
fingers. Nellie doesn't let anyone take advantage
of her or her belongings. (She has been a good
mother hen to have along on this trip.)
When the woman saw Mary's Kitty-Corner
quilt blocks, she got all excited and invited us into
her house to see the quilt top she had just put in
the frame this week to quilt. The pattern was
called the Indiana Puzzle, and it was the ugliest
and poorest quilt I have ever seen. There was no
color theme at all and very uneven stitching. Her
long lazy stitches will snap the first time that quilt
gets wet and heavy.
Later, when we were out of the woman's
house, Mary suggested the woman had poor
vision to give her the benefit of the doubt. Nellie
added she must also be color-blind.
Ann has now decided to go ahead and quilt her
Rose of Sharon top when we reach our
destination. I told her that finishing that quilt
before she was betrothed was courting disaster.
She said she knows the superstition that if the
quilt is finished too soon, the engagement — if
she ever gets one — will be broken and she'll be
doomed to spinsterhood forever. But as soon as
we have a roof over our head, she wants to set up
the quilting frame and stitch up her wedding quilt.
Besides, she says, with all the bachelors we're
seeing on the trail, she is sure she'll find one to
marry soon. I'll keep you posted.
Enclosed is the pattern we saw today. Add it to
your collection, but be sure to make the colors
coordinate!
Collecting quilt patterns along the trail,
Deborah
(Excerpt from Trail of Thread © by Linda K. Hubalek)
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On the following pages is more detail on the
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based on her pioneering ancestors, Linda raises Bison
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Block of the Month
This Month’s block is called Art Square Block.
This is a nice and easy block to piece, and it
makes a great border block to try as well. It is
also a good design to use to show off a special
piece of fabric in the large centre diamond.
You will also be able to use strip or chain piecing
to speed things up a bit. To make this 12 inch
block as shown, you will need 2 different fabrics,
and once you have rotary cut the pieces
according to the Cutting Diagram, you can piece
them together as shown.
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And thanks to Reader Lyn, who sent in a poem
about her first (and award-winning) quilt:
Today’s Tips:
Ethel in Italy sent in this great suggestion:
“The tip I have is for creating things with the
salvage edge. One of the ladies in our group
suggested cutting a square of fusible interfacing
..... and ironing the salvage edge strips to that
and then sewing them down before cutting them
or using the squares to create purses and such.”
And Donna in Missouri sent in her handy hint too:
“My tip is the following: When applying binding
to your quilt, wind the folded strips on a child size
rolling pin. Attach the ends of the rolling pin with
a ribbon long enough to go around your head and
neck (as if wearing a necklace). Using this
method the binding will unwind without twisting
as it is stitched to the quilt. If you don’t have the
rolling pin, an empty cardboard tube will be a
good substitute.”
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