Buffy: Welsh Quilt, 25"x25"

Quilting patterns:  Making a Welsh Quilts by Mary Jenkins and Clare Claridge

Buffy: Huipil Quilt, 49"x55"

Huipil:  blouse worn by indigenous Guatemalan women.  Several of us took the Priscilla Bianchi tour to Guatemala in spring 2009.  We bought used huipiles in a thrift/folk art market in Antiqua.  The quilt includes the neck opening with hand embroidery and the hand woven panels (a weft inlay technique) from the front and back of the garment.  The quilt includes handwoven Guatemalan yardage, a bit of an Alexander Henry folkloric print, and a stripe designed by Priscilla Bianchi and printed by Robert Kaufman.

Buffy: Scrap Sew Quilt

Strategy was to sew together the most outrageous combinations of scraps and see what happened.  Answer:  another Dog Quilt.   Also practiced free motion spirals, using a paper pattern.  That worked much better and was easier than the "spin the quilt and use walking foot technique."  It gave me the chance to use my new Spiral Stencil from the Stencil Company.

Roberta: Amazing hand work!

Roberta back to her crazy quilt roots with this work.

Patty shares a vintage corduroy lap quilt

Warm and soft.  It reminds me of those state map quilts that show all the counties.

Miki: AAQI Quilt

Miki does an amazing quilt for AAQI every month.

Cindy Shares an Antique String Star

Nifty's Red Trip Around the World

This is her 2nd Trip quilt, and it's destined to be a tablecloth.  You can see the first one on her blog:  niftyquilts.blogspot.com  Check entry for February 5, 2013.  She has also included a link to the tutorial she used.

Deb Karasik: paper-piecing workshop at QA

Dawn's Block

Patty's Block

Cindy: Shares antique Spider Web Quilt

Wonderful setting for really fun scraps!  My eyes have been jaded by the gorgeous fabrics of recent years.  These old scraps now seem more exciting and interesting.

Patty: Antique Spider Web

Patty found this fun quilt at goodwill.com.  Is having the blocks end with curved pieces unusual?  The circles and pillow setting blocks remind me of the Double Wedding Ring.

Maureen: From the Scraps

Mareen did a magnum opus quilt a while back, and then made this amazing original piece from the scraps.

Mary: Star Quilt

Mary reported that this was one tough piecing challenge. Pattern source to follow.

Buffy: Rebels Winter Challenge, 49"x62.5"

Challenge fabric is the large off-white background floral in the center.  I mixed it with Sujata's scraps.  Didn't quite work, but lots of free-motion practice.

Scraps/Strips Therapy Quilt, 19"x24.5"

Started to relieve stress of trying to piece handwoven Guatemalan fabrics.  Used scraps from that project and just started sewing.  Top finished in one afternoon and evening.  "It just made itself."  Reminds me of great trip we took to the Guatemalan Highlands about 4 years ago.  Prints by Alexander Henry.  Guatemalan fabrics from Goodwill.

Buffy: Improv Quilt

Started in Gwen Marston workshop last spring, and finished at a quilt retreat with friends in late summer.  Solids plus scraps.  Finished with facing technique featured in JOURNEY TO INSPIRED ART QUILTING by Jean Wells.  Followed advice from Cindy Needham to quilt "every stinking seam", which really works to keep quilt flat.  Used Madeira Monopoly for ditch work, and it really disappears.

Cindy: Top from Karla Alexander Class

Starring Rose the Famous Rebels Mascot.

Miki: Mini Spider Web

Wonderful combination of unusual fabric and color create an engaging quilt.  Amazing background fabric is not pieced.

Cindy: Leaf Quilt found in Eastern Canada

Looks like it may be a kit quilt to me.  Thankful for the kit quilts that kept the tradition going.

Miki: Rebel's Challenge

The floral was the challenge fabric.  Miki took some inspiration from geometry of Modrian's work.

Pam: Antique Star Quilt, found in Eastern WA

Miki: Santa Quilt

The pattern is Old Saint Nick by Betty Alderman from 2004. 

Patty: Spider Web

Despite my warnings that this might be a threat to her mental health, Patty plunged in and did this great spider web.

Challenge fabric quilts by Nifty and Miki

Nifty's Challenge Quilt

Miki's Challenge Quilt

Challenge fabric sent to Nifty and Miki by Victoria at Bumble Beans.  It is the fabric in the center medallion setting triangles of Nifty's quilt--a plaid with floral overlay.  Miki's quilt was much smaller than Nifty's; but I enlarged it so one can see the work better.

Nifty: Words and Orphan Blocks

Nifty: Pine Burr Block Quilt

Amazing Nifty is at it again.  Pine Burr blocks from a donation of vintage 3" polyester squares, and border from thrift market vintage furnishing fabric.  Before you start to do this note that this is one heavy quilt.  Also the finishing is proving a challenge.  She may need to pad the sashing and borders with batting to even them out with the blocks.  How does one quilt it??

Nifty quits using stitch regulator

Nifty 

Nifty started with a thrift market Santa panel, added orphan blocks, giant rick rack, and scraps for a fun Santa Quilt.  She quit her stitch regulator and found that free-motion quilting is lots easier and faster, for her, without it.

Pam: Antique String Quilt

Pam found this "mother-of-all" string quilts in rural Eastern Washington.  IT IS HAND-PIECED!!  We did not find any foundation fabric.

Patty: Rebels Challenge

Challenge fabric featured in medallion.

Pam: "Made Fabric" String Quilt

Nifty: Tea Cozies

Nifty is having too much fun these days with these Ikea fabric Tea Cozies. Note the exuberant fringe on the top one.

Rebels Challenge: Medallion by Pam

Challenge fabric is the the one in the center.  Amazing eclectic fabric choices!

Mary E: Modern Fussy Cut Block

Mary made this block in a workshop with Katie Pedersen at the Quilting Loft in Ballard.  Looks like a great design for a whole quilt to me.

Patsy finishes Judy Roberson workshop quilt

Workshop:  use of inserts using Judy Robertson's great hand dyed fabrics

Patsy: Finishes Carol Taylor workshop circle quilt

Note:  Free-cut circles,  border piecing, batiks held down with black and white contrast

Tea with Victoria!

The Rebels got together this weekend to celebrate Victoria's new book,
15 Minutes of Play.

Miki, me, Alexis, Patty, Buffy, Em, Victoria

We had show and tell, of course!

Em showed her LOVE quilt, which we all loved.

Miki showed her recent finish.  Lots of "ooh's" and "ah's."

And the AAQI quilt she made from the scraps.  

Alexis showed this beauty, which she had finished just that morning.

Buffy brought her most recent quilting project.  Everyone oogled over her quilting.  Too bad you can't see it.  She used red thread, brilliantly.

I showed the tea cozies I made with Ikea fabric for the occasion.

Most of these gals have quilts in the book, along with many others.  

You'll find SO much inspiration in 15 Minutes of Play. 

 If you don't already have your signed copy, 

you can purchase it here!