Some of the quilts in the photo gallery are made from patchwork, but many of the designs are created using applique, thread painting, embroidery, and other techniques. Many landscape and art quilters used hand-dyed fabrics and fabric painting techniques to translate their ideas to cloth. There’s no limit to the methods you can use to create an art quilt. If you’re beginning your first art quilt, try using a simple color wheel and learn how color value affects the ways that fabrics contrast or blend together. Many techniques were used in this quilt, including raw edge applique, extensive free-motion machine embroidery, overlays of tulle for filtered sunlight, and coloring with Tsukineko inks and wax pastels. The piece was machine quilted. It measures about 7 3/4 inches by 7 3/4 inches. The quilt measures 76 inches by 84 inches. The quilt measures 26 inches by 33 inches. The quilt measures approximately 34 inches by 39 inches. The quilt measures 72 inches by 77 inches. The quilt measures 54.5 inches by 68.5 inches. The quilt measures 25 inches by 26 inches. The quilt measures 45 inches by 40 inches. The quilt measures about 1 by 1.5 meters. It measures about 50 inches by 60 inches. The quilt is a multi-media piece featuring appliqué, embroidery, hand quilting, and some machine quilting. More than 17 animals and birds native to northwest Ohio are represented on the quilt, including a pheasant, blue heron crane, cardinals, bluebirds, hummingbirds, red wing blackbirds, gray squirrel, and frogs. It was sold at public auction on June 16, 2007, at the Fulton County Fairgrounds in Wauseon to benefit Sunshine Inc. of Northwest Ohio and Mennonite Central Committee. The quilt measures 25 inches by 39 inches and is machine quilted. There are 15 different colors used throughout the quilt. I created an embroidered Celtic design on the blue outside border. The inspiration for this quilt was my daughter’s love of wolves and Celtic designs. I enjoyed making the quilt but would have enjoyed having a bit more time to complete it.
