Friday Update

I have a couple of things going on this Friday.  On my design wall is a finished quilt top. This is a lap quilt for my daughter. I guess this is my first modern style quilt. I know that it looks crooked in the photo, but that’s just because I can never seem to position my camera in the exact center of the quilt to take the photo and I always end up with distortion. I guess I need a class on taking photos of quilts or I need a tripod.

I am also getting ready for a class that I am taking with Gloria Loughman tomorrow at the Philly quilt expo. Here are my fabrics.  I had some from my stash, but last week I had to go to the quilt store to get some. Have you seen the price of cotton fabric these days???? YIKES! I am going for a blue-green and red-orange color scheme. I am really looking forward to the quilt show and this class. I hope some of Gloria’s quilts are shown at the show since what she does is amazing.

Here is another quilt top that I made this summer in an online class with Ellen Lindner called Double Reverse Appliqué. This one is about 12 inches by 12 inches and I have to decide if I am going to add a border to it.

 

Will let you know how my class was next week. Thanks for reading.

Chris

Astronomy In My Quilts

When I started making quilts more than 25 years ago I found that I was drawn to star quilts.  One of my favorite topics to teach in Astronomy is about stars.  Is there a connection?
This is one of my first quilts called “Denise’s Quilt.” I made this quilt about 25 years ago, but  gave this quilt to my SIL a few years ago because she loved it so much.

This one is called “Midnight Stars.” Tons of hand quilting in it.

This one is called “Blended Stars” and was hung for the first time last Christmas.

This Halloween quilt called “Trick or Treat” has a sky full of stars. It has the Moon as well.


My “Tribute to van Gogh” also had stars in the sky. I love his Starry Night painting.

Of course there are plenty of star quilts I made that I gave away and do not have photos of. I also made several quilts with the Moon in them. This one is called “Call of the Wild” and it has a large image of the full  Moon in it.

Another quilt with the Moon in is is “Under a Purple Moon.” 

I have done a few quilts showing the winter season when we are tilted away from the Sun. I really don’t like winter, but find I am drawn to making quilts that show that season.
This is “California Dreaming.”

  
“Midwinter Visitor'” is my most recent quilt showing winter trees.
 

This is a postcard I made also showing winter.

My latest challenge quilt shows an abstract interpretation of the surface of the Sun. It is called “Granulation.”

Even the dinosaur quilt that I made my daughter when she was very young had suns in the blocks with the dinosaurs. This quilt is called “T.Rex and Others, Too.”



   
Thanks for reading.
Chris