Winchester Fiber Arts

Winchester, Massachusetts

Quilts

Quilts pieced, appliquéd and quilted over many years: bargello, Storm at Sea, foundation paper piecing, and a run of baby quilts.

Quilting runs through most of what I make. Some of these are pieced by hand and some by machine; some took a weekend and one took years.

If quilting is what you want to learn, it is taught as part of sewing lessons rather than separately: it builds on accurate cutting and consistent seams, so it suits people who already have the basics.

A bargello quilt covering a double bed, pieced from narrow vertical strips that step up and down in waves, graded through greens, browns and creams.
King-size bargello.
  • A large quilt hung against a bright window wall, pieced from hundreds of small printed hexagons and diamonds into interlocking rosettes in every color, on a white ground.
    Passacaglia: English paper piecing, built rosette by rosette.
  • A quilt hung on a pale wall showing a great horned owl in browns, golds and cream, built from sharply angled pieced facets, gripping a yellow branch.
    Foundation paper pieced.
  • A quilt spread over a double bed whose pieced diamonds and squares create the illusion of curving waves, in greens and teals on cream.
    Storm at Sea: the curves are an illusion; every piece is straight.
  • A double wedding ring quilt draped over a sofa, its interlocking rings pieced from navy and cream prints on a pale ground.
    Double wedding ring.
  • A quilt laid on a wooden floor, printed with staves of sheet music and appliquéd with rows of small birds in many colors perched along the lines.
    Machine appliquéd, on a sheet-music print.
  • A small quilt hung on a wall, its center pieced from hundreds of tiny dark floral squares, framed by borders in magenta and deep red.
    Watercolor piecing.
  • A small quilt propped upright on a sewing machine, showing an appliquéd honeybee with gold and gray wings on a blue printed ground.
  • A baby quilt quilted with concentric circles in many colors on white, the rings overlapping and running off the edges.
  • A baby quilt draped over the arm of a sofa, pieced in triangles of purple, lilac and pink prints inside a floral border.
    Commissioned.
  • Pieced triangles in purples and pinks laid out in rows on a gridded cutting mat, working out the arrangement before sewing.
    Planning a layout before anything is stitched.
  • A baby quilt in pastel squares of green, blue, yellow and pink, folded over the corner of an antique chest of drawers.
  • A baby quilt spread on grass with one corner turned back to show a blue dotted backing, its front a grid of large pastel squares in blue, green, pink, purple and orange inside a cream border.
  • Sarah holding up a large gray quilt scattered with pieced owls in many different fabrics, each owl a circle split into colored quarters with a small yellow beak, her face visible above the top edge.

All projects