Seascape quilts

As the fall arrives and summer winds down, I find myself thinking about images that relax me. I just finished this art quilt in early September. It transports me back to quiet afternoons at Long Beach Island in NJ with my family or visits to the Outer Banks in NC. Beaches are universal. After creating Read the full article...

I'm doing a happy dance today because after two three (!) years, I have a finish: My Lake Michigan Quilt, or as we say in all of our state's ads about things we like, MI Lake Michigan Quilt. I was under the MIstaken (get it?) impression that it took me two years until I looked up my old posts this week and found out that I started it in MId-October 2015. It's as old as one of MI grandsons. I won't put all the links in here of posts along the way, but if you'd like to read them, click on the…

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Make a super-simple landscape art quilt with free-motion thread sketched embellishments, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or advanced.

There's an imminent new arrival in our extended family, so it's time for me to get working on another version of my baby beach scenes. Simon suggested I incorporate surfing since the father is a keen surfer. That was the starting point for my designing, anyway. I ended up with this row of (potentially surfable?!) waves which will go across the top of the reef/water section, and I started by piecing them. I divided the waves into organic shapes, much like those I used in the much larger…

I haven’t had much of a chance to make art quilts recently..I’ve been trying to put more bags and journals into my madeit store. I decided that I just had to do one today. It is named &…

Learn to make your own serene Seascape and Shell bookmark with this step-by-step tutorial.

Read "Seaside Quilts Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor" by Carol Porter available from Rakuten Kobo. Seaside Quilts shows you how to transform your dwelling into a relaxing shore retreat, with sea-inspired linens and home...

Check out this gorgeous quilt pattern you can purchase over on Connecting Threads. Wow! Designed by The Fabric Addict, the pattern contains instructions for two sizes, lap and queen. The use of t…