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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 ...

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