Field Trips in Fiber - Adventures in quilting, hand dyed fabric and fiber art.

Customer Work

There's no better way to end the week than with something beautiful. Back in March I shared a cool art quilt by Patricia Caldwell. That month she finished Lovebirds Bright and Bold using the Key West gradient.

Now she back with another beautiful art quilt. This one is Birch Trees and uses the Black gradient as her background. She said that she had been wanting to do this piece for a long time but could never find the right background until she found the Black gradient in my shop. You can see 5 more photos in her Etsy shop. Of course I love the background but I really love her quilting and the treatment of the border.

I can't tell you how excited I get to see my fabric used in your projects. Now my week has been made so I'll get back to ironing all of the fabric I dyed this week. I hope you have a great weekend, I know I will!

Customer Work

I have two great projects to share with you today.

The first is from Lory Bishop is from Fall City, WA and made this great hummingbird wall hanging.

Here's what she had to say about the piece:

"It was fun to make. I found a card with this photo on it and have been dreaming about making it into a quilt. I felted the nest using various wools and yarns and appliquéd and thread painted the hummer. The leaves are 3D, and of course your wonderful hand dyed fabric was perfect! The quilt is approx 40x40. I am planing on doing more birds, I keep finding pictures!! I am working on a web site, but currently am listed on ETSY at Lory's Quilted Memories."

I sure hope she keeps making birds because this one is fabulous.

The second project is from Viki Kirby of Westpoint, IN.

Viki used the Blue Sky gradient for the background of her applique. Here's what she said about the piece:

"Background of Lilies is from Vicki Welsh's gradient fabrics. Satin stitched lilies applique done with freehand quilting with blue metallic thread in background and border. Quilted with SoFine thread in flowers and leaves."

You can see lots of Viki's beautiful quilting in her Flickr Gallery.

If you've made something with my fabric I would love to see it. Either add it to the Customer Gallery on Flickr or send it to me with permission and I will post it for you.

Fabulous Customer Projects

Boy do I have a treat for you today. In the past week 2 of my customers have sent me photos of projects they completed using some of my hand dyed fabrics.

First up is Stephanie Wilds. You might remember her Faces of Music quilt from 2011. She's back with another music-themed quilt.

Swannanoa String Band, 1895

This quilt, along with 10 others of Stephanie's quilts, is currently on exhibit at the Black Mountain, NC Center for the Arts. Stephanie used Walnut shades in r steps to create the figures in this piece.

The second quilt comes from Patricia Caldwell.

Lovebirds, Bright and Bold

Patricia is a quilt artist and sells her work through her Etsy shop, The Butterfly Quilter. She used the Key West gradient (currently out of stock) for the borders and bird bodies. Key West will be back in stock in the next 2 weeks.

You can see several detail photos of the quilt on the listing.

I can't tell you how exciting it is to see what people do with my fabric. If you've made anything with some of my fabric please consider sharing it in my customer gallery on Flickr.

 

 

 

Hitting the road

Mom and I are off today heading for Lancaster, PA and the AQS show there. It's been a while since I've taken a road trip and we are both looking forward to this one. I'll try to post some highlights from the show but in the mean time please go see what Kelly did with a box of scraps I sent her.

When I posted about the scraps from my Dancing Stars quilt Kelly commented that if she had them she would make a quilt for a local charity. Kelly is from an area near where I grew up so I felt that she deserved them. I had no idea what a super cool quilt she would make and in just a few weeks!

 

A spectacular customer quilt

A few months ago Norece E. contacted me for a custom order. She wanted lots of yardage of a deep dark brown and 11 fat eighths of shaded colors.

Here's what she did with it.

Spectacular!

Can you imagine how excited I was to get this photo in my email? Nothing makes me happier than seeing what people do with my fabric. 

Check out another example at Kate's blog. When I visited her in 2010 I took her some of my precious "waste fabrics" and she made the cutest baby quilt top with them. I'm going to have to make a couple of those quilt tops myself. I've been thinking aobut doing a few baby quilts for donation and that would be perfect.