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Homage to Fragonard, or, Fun & Learning with your Favorite Museum Snapshots from Gefilte Quilt

Need a fast holiday gift? How about turning your favorite Museum art photos into mini-quilts?

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Backstory:

Do you take a ton of photos at art museums? I sure do, because I see so many art lessons, about color, composition, creativity, and courage.

These photos are fun to revisit from time to time, but not much happens with them.

Until a couple of weeks ago, when the Notre Dame Cathedral was reopened, five years after the horrific fire.

Days before that fire, we were visiting Paris, including Notre Dame. (I blogged about that experience here.)

We also went to ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 6 days, 8 hours ago. under art quilt , collage , louvre , paris , raw edge applique , snippets

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

English Paper Pieced Coaster Tutorial: Finish a Block, Enjoy a Fantasy Euro-Vacation! from Gefilte Quilt

Are you a wannabe traveler, sitting at home, while your muscles and your miles (frequent flier) stagnate?

This project can brighten your days and remind you of better times and more interesting places.

It's an English Paper Pieced Euro-coaster, upon which we can place our demitasse of home-brewed espresso, or perhaps a pot of Earl Grey.

Put another way, this tutorial shows how I used fabric from Paris, and one of the blocks in my new English Paper Piecing book, "Hexagon Star Quilts," to make a coaster. It would also work as a hanging ornament. You can adapt this ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 years, 2 months ago. under coasters , english paper piecing , france , paris

Oh to be in Paris from Koolkat Quilting

Jan from Tweed Heads West made this quilt in memory of her visit to Paris. It also features a unique embroidered quilt label made by KoolKat.

added by koolkatquilting 4 years, 2 months ago. under embroidered quilt label , hearts e2e machine quilting pattern , koolkat quilting , paris

Memories of my Father & Designing from Where Art & Life Meet

My father was born and raised in Paris. And though he was Swiss, his first language was French. When he moved to the United States, he brought with him his preference for all things Swiss, he claimed the products produced there were far superior, and his love of the French language. So he would have… Continue reading Memories of my Father & Designing

added by arianezurcher 4 years, 5 months ago. under ariane zurcher jewelry , artist grant , artist in residence , bernina , chateaud'orquevaux , creative process , design , designing , diversity , etsy shop , facebook , facebook group , french , french speaking , french translation , hand stitching , instructions in french , neutrals , new york city , otter needle roll , pandemic , paris , parsons school of design , rhino pouch , river rocks , swiss (Comments)

Table for Two from From My Carolina Home

This year I have not been inspired by Valentine’s Day. Usually by now I have red hearts all over the place, with my two heart table toppers displayed prominently. This year I didn’t even get them out until this week, and even now they seem boring, just the same-old same-old. But it was time for the snowflakes to be packed away, so I decided to get out my French themed plates and build a table just for us two for this weekend.

I haven’t used the French rooster bowls in a while, and their colors blend well ...

added by Carole @ From My Carolina Home 4 years, 10 months ago. under french , paris , red , tablescape , tablescapes , valentine (Comments)

Simone's Baby Quilt from Quilting Stories

After a very long absence from my blog, I am back with the last quilt I achieved.

It was a very easy and quick baby quilt to complete, though hand quilted.

I started end of September and finished beginning of November, just in time before flying to Paris :

last stitches the night before!

This quilt is a gift for my niece who decorated the bedroom of her future daughter using very soft colors. I first intended to sew a quilt using my beloved Liberty fabrics but, after I received the pictures of the wallpapers, I put them away and decided ...

added by Quilting Stories 4 years, 10 months ago. under baby , baby girl quilt , baby quilt , colors , gift , hand quilted , paris , romantic

La Droguerie from Quilting Stories

A little trip to Paris last week. And for me, going to Paris means visiting and shopping at La Droguerie, my favorite haberdasher's shop. They have their own production and dyeing of great quality yarns. In this wonderful shop you can find quilting fabrics, Liberty fabrics, all sorts of threads, buttons, beads, ribbons... as well as catalogues with their great patterns for children or adults.

I remember when this shop was created in 1975, I was one of their first customer and so happy to find cashmere yarn, out of which I knitted a sweater for the one who ...

added by Quilting Stories 6 years, 1 month ago. under beads , button , fabrics , paris , ribbons , shop , thread , wool , yarn

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