My blog has moved – http://think-quilts.com

My blog has moved to a different host and can now be reached with a shorter web address: http://think-quilts.com (Note that there is a little dash between think and quilts) Please do update your web browser bookmarks! Alternatively, you can also directly go to my personal web site: http://LisaJenni.com  

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Ship? What Ship?

   25″ x 25″      -      finished block: 2 1/2 inches. A quarter of the size of Earth, Wind and Fire. The top of this year’s challenge quilt is pieced.  All scraps in hand-dyes or batiks. Now, it’s all about the quilting. Again: Ship? What ship? Wat I wasn’t expecting, I truly enjoy to play with the word or motive, coming [...]

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Living Colour

Eureka! All cutting and piecing is done. Looks cool. I’m adding some shading by fabric felt-pen to give it a more 3-dimensional look. Painting on fabric. Now comes the quilting, lots of it. I love this part, to give the piece even more dimension, structure and depth.

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Living Colour

Finally, I found the guts to cut into this yummy hand dyed green yard from Judy Robertson. And also the guts to stick it to another gorgeous piece of hand dyes from Frieda Anderson or Laura Wasilowski. That makes about 50 bucks just in fabric.  No wonder, my thoughts still are: don’t mess it up!  

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Hoffman Challenge 2008

Just checked the new Hoffman Challenge , I’m not sure whether I like this fabric. As usual, lots of pink! I don’t like pink, that alone makes it into a challenge for me. Maybe there is something more I can do about the blues. For sure, I’ve to see the fabric in real, and I’m almost [...]

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Living Colour

For months now, I’m dragging around a postcard from my daughter, currently working and traveling for a year in Australia. It’s a photograph of a beautiful rainforest palm tree canopy. The “gazillion” of shades of green in this picture manifest Living Colour for me. What could be more living than a green forest?! I made sketches [...]

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Ship? What Ship?

Two days of work. Still not even the blocks finished. One-hundred of them, 2 1/2 inches finished. Curved piecing in miniature. It seems to take for ever.  The whole quilt won’t exeed 25 x 25 inches, that’s my goal. All fabric is scraps of either commercial batiks or hand dyes. It started with a 5 x [...]

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Creative Chaos vs Clean Slate

Since weeks, I was busy to clean up my working table and get a clean slate for a new project. Having a cluttered working area is only up to a certain point “creative chaos”. After a hard working period, everything seems to pile up, with no time to stow away gadget, fabrics, tester  pieces, design sketches [...]

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Make time to quilt

This seems to be the biggest problem for all kind of artists, quilters are no exception. Today, instead of machine quilting on my Bernina, I started a blog. Well, there could be worse things to kill time, but… Typical, excuses not to do what’s on my list, not to speak of that this quilt needs [...]

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Hi quilters and non-quilters…

…what got me into quilting? - In short words: a artist’s fascination with color, texture and fabric as a very tactile medium.

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