Gloria's Glacier Star

Just finished quilting customer Gloria's beauty. Lots of thread changes and lots of designs, with repetition, throughout the quilt. Very structured quilting contrasted with small scale freehand and large scale random freehand. Very pleased with the way it came out.

Applique designing with found shapes

EQ Group at Folk Art Quilts in Wakefield, RI did so well today designing applique with existing shapes from EQ7. They created all kinds of critters from the shapes I used to design my pretty pathetic little dog. We had pigs and pooches and even a purse of two. Always fun to see what creative minds come up with!

New EQ Group

Starting a new monthly EQ Group in Barrington, RI on Wednesday, May 7th. We'll be meeting at the beautiful new knitting and quilt shop, Knit One, Quilt too on Anoka Ave.  We'll be starting at the beginning with EQ7 and taking it a month at a time with a new lesson each month getting you comfortable with EQ7 as well as designing a quilt of some type each time.
Join us - you'll LOVE EQ - it takes the math out of designing and gives your quilts possibilities you never dreamt of !

Shades of Teal in Quiltmaker

Just confirmed that a new version of my "Shades of Grey" quilt will be in the March/April issue of Quiltmaker due out 2/4/14. Here's the original and you can tell from the title it will have a monochromatic teal background with bright circles appliqued onto each block. Had a fun time with the quilting although the deadline was a tight one. I'll keep you posted.

My monthly EQ groups have been working with shades, tints, and tones of color so this teal gradation was right in keeping with what they've been working with. Much more fun to see in the fabric than just on a computer screen!

Find Quilting Teachers

When I was program co-chair for Narragansett Bay Quilters, we often had trouble finding out who was available and where they were from. We tried coordinating with other local or regional guilds but always found this frustrating and rarely successful. While cruising the 'net last night, I found this site and listed my info on it. It's a great resource for guilds, letting them know who is out there and when they'll be in the area.

Here's the link: http://www.quilters-calendar.com/share/

Check it out - lots of familiar faces there!
 

Pattern(s) available at Etsy

Opened a very small, a this point, shop on Etsy so that my quilt patterns are more easily available at a PDF download. The one pattern that's for sale there at this point is my bright, contemporary "Twist and Shout" pictured below. The quilt is a basic 9-patch with 5 of the blocks cut and sewn to visually spin in one direction, and 4 to spin in the opposite direction. There is a partial seam in the center around the black and white pinwheel, but an easy sewing technique to do.

My Etsy shop is: PatHarrisonQuilts. Hope to see you there!

Ninigret Quilters Show

Think I'm finally recovered from the show. All went very well and the show's success is such a tribute to the many friendly, hard working guild members who were there throughout the show. The most exciting news of the show was that a quilt I quilted for Tina Craig won Best of Show and a plethora of other ribbons, including Exemplary Machine Quilting - Track Mounted for my quilting of it.

Tina did an amazing job selecting the fabrics and colors, not to mention how well she pieced this difficult design. She added applique to the design as well and a beautifully done scalloped border. Quite the Masterpiece!