"This was a fun quilt to make! First, start with a bright patterned fabric. Then add eight fabrics in colors drawn from the first color....."
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"This design attracted my attention in one of the first scholarly books about quilts during the quilt revival of the last 40 years. The Pieced Quilt by Jonathan Holstein, 1973, shows it made in red and blue and he identifies it as 'Kaleidoscope'."
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"I started this quilt as a hand sewing project to do during mini-group meetings. As I only worked on it there, it took me about three years to put together."
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"This was made as an example for a Home Workshop in 1997 and finished this year (2007). I had had the red polished cotton on hand for some time and chose to use it as a shiny contrast to the blue fabric."
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"This top was made as a sample for a Home Workshop class in the fall of 2006. It is an older pattern but I resized it to show off fabrics I didn't wat to cut up into small pieces. I also designed different edge pieces to complete the pattern."
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This series of three images is of a ' Tumbling Blocks' patterned quilt, "...that was pieced by hand over the course of 2 or 3 years in my mini group, and eventually was machine quilted by Sharon Cook." -- Arlene
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"...an afgan size quilt of turquoise and aqua colors, made in a Jamboree class taught by Mary Jane Best. "
-- Arlene
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I have a feeling that one only needs to mention a color, just the mere word, to cause Arlene's creative flights: Flights of beautiful fancy!
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"This pattern comes from the Mountain Artisons Quilting Book by Alfred Allan Lewis, 1973. Althought it is described as an old and traditional pattern, I have never seen it anywhere else. The book calls it 'Fence Rail' "
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"A few years ago, I saw several Woodpile quilts at the Yuba City show and I said, 'I want one.' "
-- Arlene
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"I love to make hexagonal Stach and Whacks and I made this as a wedding gift for the daughter of my longest time friend (we've known each other for 44 years)."
-- Arlene
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"This quilt was made as a gift for my husband's niece. She said the colors she liked were fuchsia and turquoise, so I assembled a collectin of fuchsia to pink, and turquoise to aqua - all tone on tone fabrics."
-- Arlene
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"I made this quilt in 1999 and finished the quilting in 2000. It was made as a wedding present for my husband's great-nephew and his bride."
-- Arlene
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"This is a what if quilt. What if I took all the purple, pink and red stripes..... What if I added a solid purple border.... My youngest daughter, Jean, said, 'Oh, I love it!' "
-- Arlene
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"I sized it to make the squares larger to show off the Japanese fabrics, some of which were purchased in Japan. The quilt was made for a class that I taught." -- Arlene
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"This red and pink one was made in a class that used fat quarters. I used up all of the scraps and some of the squares are pieced two or three times." -- Arlene
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"This is a scrap quilt made from orange, purple and yellow fabrics. I wanted to see what these fabrics would look like together, and I had precut scrap strips to work with." -- Arlene
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