Quilts 2013

My head hasn’t looked up for the past few weeks. I have been focused on completing machine quilting on lots of old projects and re-purposing some of my workshop withdrawal pieces into Christmas gifts. I haven’t made gifts in a few years after I made myself crazy staying up all night on Christmas Eve to […] Read More...

It has been a summer of travels. We returned last week from Vermont. Within 12 hours of being home, I jumped right into the AQS show which was being held in Grand Rapids. I took two classes there and then volunteered with the takedown process which really was […] Read More...

Before I left home, I finished Rooflines # 10. This piece was inspired by the houses in the distance tucked into the Green Mountains that you can see at dusk. ©Colleen Kole , 2013, “Rooflines # 10, 70 x 82 I did use free motion quilting on this piece changing colors with the […] Read More...

I was tickled pink to have two pieces accepted into the 85th Regional Exhibition: All State Edition at the Muskegon Museum of Art. The opening was this past Thursday night at the museum and was very well attended. I had been so busy that I had no time to think or get excited […] Read More...

It feels so good to be finished with this piece. I really struggled with it but only because I had never used free motion quilting to finish a piece this large. So, as I was documenting and taking pictures, I wrote a long list of what I learned: 1. Always test […] Read More...

I thought I would be showing you a finished piece at the end of this week. It always takes longer than I think it will. When I went to put the binding on tonight, I realized that I had a huge spot of machine oil on my piece. I took a […] Read More...

No time for pictures yesterday. The day floated by me. I started this piece at the Nancy Crow’s Lines, Curves, Circles and Figure Ground workshop last December. It has been taking up my big design wall for way too long and is one of my few workshop pieces that I want to finish. […] Read More...

I gave myself an ultimatum: In three days, get this off the design wall so you can move on to a large piece for the Rooflines series. I had sixteen pieces to finish but only made it to eleven before I left. in process…. I underestimated the amount of design work I […] Read More...

From a little research …. Comes a little piece…. © Colleen Kole, 2013, Rooflines #9: Urban, 10×12 I really like the red motif on the right- the slope of the intersecting line seems like it would be fun to slide down. That is a really random Friday thought. A very small piece […] Read More...

It was a slow moving process with this piece. It began as a small little idea and a small portion of this design was pinned on my wall for many months. I kept taking it down and putting it back up again and it was assuming this grandiose design idea in my head. […] Read More...

When I was planning out my year ahead, one of my big goals was to finish up my workshop quilts. All of them and, given the number, that would be my year. But when prompted by a reputable person (more about this later), I really didn’t have a good reason to complete workshop […] Read More...

This is a great way to start 2013 with one workshop exercise completely pieced. I was unable to make the last cut as I only have one cutting mat here which is only 24×36. Well, I could have done it but I really didn’t want to make that last cut in error. […] Read More...