Starry Night

The summer solstice is less than a month away, and brilliant stars are on the horizon. Join us as we admire a brilliant star quilt from last year's Road to California show. ~ p.s. Check out our eBay shop for great bargains on books, magazines, and collectible items. For free quilt inspiration, please visit us on Twitter.

Starry Night by Susan Scholfield (Canton, Michigan) 

Susan Scholfield's Starry Night quilt was inspired by the Not So Lone Star quilt made by Liza Prior Lucy with Kaffe Fassett fabrics.  That quilt was featured in the 2010 book called Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts.  

Susan Scholfield received permission to exhibit her quilt inspired by Liza's design. Free motion feathers abound in the dark background of the quilt to enhance the colorful diamond shapes within the Lone Star pattern.

This Lone Star quilt is a study in color and quilt design, with free motion quilting within the diamonds enhancing the geometric shapes.  We love the choice of fabrics, patterns, and colors in this beautifully-made quilt.  Susan Scholfield has won many quilting awards, including Best Home Sewing Machine Quilted at the 2019 Sauder Village Quilt show.

Image credits:  Photos were taken at the 2020 Road to California quilt show.

Miniature Quilts Galore! part 5

Miniature quilts and wall quilts are some of the most fun projects we've seen.  In these quilts the traditional blocks are reduced to a fraction of their traditional size. They are technically challenging, visually intriguing, and much easier to display than a regular quilt!

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Pure Velvet, 31 x 31, by Amy Pabst, West Virginia

  First Place winner for Pieced Wall Quilts at the Road to California Quilt Show,  Amy explains, "Each 1.5" block in this quilt has 49 pieces for a total of 21,609 pieces. The quilt was foundation pieced on a 1947 Singer Featherweight, then quilted in the ditch on a Bernina."  

 Wow !  We can all appreciate the amount of workmanship that went into Amy's lovely creation.

For this pineapple pattern, Amy chose silks, silk blends, polyesters, velvets, linen blends, and cottons. The neutral fabric tones are set off by small amounts of bright colors, which really make the quilt sparkle.  Amy learned to sew at a young age; and her quilt is a wonderful example of her talents.