Quilts with words

2011 was really a banner year for word quilts for me. I think every quilt I made that year had letters in it. Daft Zebras, 2011 The phrase "How quickly daft jumping zebras vex" is an example of a pangram, a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet at least once. (Another more common example is "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.) I was bored one day and wanted to sew some letters and have some fun with them. I wanted to use black and white fabrics, and make the letters look…

When I make a quilt like this, I become more free to be myself. I choose to put myself out there in a tangible way. It takes courage to even try to make something that embodies strong feelings…

This is the foundation paper piecing project that I created with my word of the year for 2021 - Abundance! I can't wait to share it!

Welcome to finish it up Friday! I made this wall hanging because I constantly need the reminder!!! I usually have such a hard time cutting into fabric-especially making that first cut. I think that's why I am so enamored with scraps. I'd rather use something up than to start with something new. I'm working on it, though, because there is no shortage of fabric in this house. Ha ha ha ha!!! I finished the binding on this piece just this morning. I love how it turned out!!! The letters are free…

For the last month or two we've been experimental with word-quilts like you see here. I've got reasonably robust Mathematica code to automatically construct a stitching pattern for any set of words, and Nina has found a pleasingly simple combination of font and background pattern to focus

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here are a couple more quilts that caught my eye at the International Quilt Fair in Birmingham... this was a lovely colourful quilt with applique and embroidered shapes & words all to do with eco living. I also liked this...

The last of the words from my Spelling Bee buddies arrived this week. So I was able to get these out on my design floor today! I am going to put some 'picture' blocks in amongst the words... My mind wasn't quite focused on things while I was making this one! Ah, that's better! This one features some of my favourite places.... and this is where I got to.... with plans to paper piece a suitcase block (places we've been), applique a bike block (memories made)..... and maybe one or two other…

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