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Photoshop Your Quilt into Different Quilts from Gefilte Quilt

My big idea was to create a building under construction, based on some of my New York City photos, especially of the building on the left.

To capture the sense of looking directly inside rooms, I drafted a foundation paper piecing patterns. It's constructed in strips. Here are the top portions of two of the strips.

And here's what it looked like, all sewn up. It didn't give as much of a sense of space as I'd hoped.

It's very small - most pieces are an inch or less - so there was no obvious way to ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 years, 5 months ago. under building , city quilts , cityscape quilts , foundation paper piecing , new york city , photographs , phototransfer

My Newest City Quilt, a Triumph (for the Cat) from Gefilte Quilt

Fresh from the photographer! My newest quilt - it's about 70" high. I should have blocked it, look at that top edge, curved like an archery bow, oy!

This quilt started out with a pile of buildings from my earlier city quilts. Playing with leftovers is SO much more fun than starting from scratch. Along with not having to face a blank design wall, trying to redeem flawed fragments makes me feel environmentally noble - like I'm keeping them out of landfill and thereby saving the world!

The biggest decision I had to make was whether to turn my leftovers ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , building , cat , city quilts , cityscape quilts , geometric print , kaffe fassett , new york city , paris , scrap project , scrap quilt , solid fabric

Quilt Your City on Pillows from Gefilte Quilt

Out of wall space? How about making some quilted pillows?

I might not have thought of this, if I hadn't been asked. A neighbor saw my pandemic porch quilt show (the subject of my last several blog posts), and commissioned me to make four 18" pillows, including two with scenes from our town, South Pasadena, which is part of Los Angeles. We negotiated a price and a backing color - grey - and I was off. It took about two weeks, and here they are.

The first one in the lineup above represents the town's Gold Line MTA Train crossing ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 years, 10 months ago. under applique , building , city quilts , cityscape quilts , coffee , food fabric , novelty fabric , pillow , pillowcase , swimming pools

Strange Thrills: Put Your Quilts on Mugs, Notecards, Pillows, and/or Other Quilts! from Gefilte Quilt

Here are the two latest fat-quarters to enter my fabric stash. I'm certain that no one else on earth owns these fabrics. The first:

What the heck is it? A photograph of my recent Chicago quilt, downsized from its original 72 inches wide, to only 9 inches across. Six copies fit on a fat-quarter of fabric (FQs are 18" x 22").

They were printed onto a lovely organic cotton sateen by the custom printer Spoonflower.com. Spoonflower's usual price is about $13.00 per FQ - I took advantage of a two-for-one sale to pay that price for the ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 11 months ago. under building , city quilts , cityscape quilts , gifts , improvisation , modern , modern quilt , modern quilting , mugs , novelty fabric , redbubble , solid fabric , spoonflower , vistaprint

Turn Your Maxi Quilts into Adorable Mini Quilts (and Maybe a Mug) from Gefilte Quilt

In our last installment, I put photos of quilts that are about 70" wide onto fat-quarters of organic cotton sateen, with the help of Spoonflower.com. I downsized each image to about 6" across. Here's the fat-quarter with images of my Los Angeles quilt. Before cutting it up, it fit 8 photos, plus four partial images along the top.

I decided to make the reprints into individual wallhangings, and this time I not only added borders, but also quilted around each building with "invisible" monofilament thread. Here's a finished Chicago wallhanging, 10" wide including borders:

The original quilt ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 11 months ago. under building , city quilts , cityscape quilts , gifts , improvisation , modern , modern quilt , modern quilting , mugs , novelty fabric , redbubble , solid fabric , spoonflower

Los Angeles II: A Modern City Quilt from Gefilte Quilt

I'm on a roll with city quilts! I've made two New York quilts, a Chicago quilt, and now, a second Los Angeles quilt. (Photos of earlier quilts and an instructional booklet are here.) Below is the second Los Angeles quilt:

It's a wedding present (a scant year-and-a-half late!) for my dear friend Elizabeth and her groom Rick, who whisked her away to the East Coast, leaving her family and friends happy for them, but sorry for ourselves.

In my first LA quilt, I recreated significant buildings that would be fun to translate into fabric. For this quilt ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 12 months ago. under building , city quilts , cityscape quilts , gifts , improvisation , modern , modern quilt , modern quilting , novelty fabric , redbubble , solid fabric , spoonflower

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