Quilt to Give, designed by the late, great Nancy Zieman

[Extracted from my original posting at Houzz (fka GardenWeb)]

Quilt to Give, Designed by the late Nancy Ziemen [sic]

Karen S. (7b, NYC)

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I just finished piecing this top & expect to pass on to friend & fellow quilter who does the long-arm quilting for our Guild's larger Charity Quilts.

Most of these fabrics were donated, in particular the bright, multicolored foliage fabric.

A bit closer up, both shots in hallway outside my apmt .

I'll post an update when this is quilted.

But perhaps in honor of Nancy & her & contributions to sewing & quilting, I invite folks to make one of these quilts of hers & donate it to charity in her memory. Or, maybe take the idea back to your own Guild & start a group to make one there. She even has an online diagram for its pattern & it's sure Scrap Friendly. Here's the link.

http://www.nancyzieman.com/blog/quilt-to-give/quilt-to-give%E2%80%94free-quilt-instructions/?print=pdf             

[sorry, I believe this link has recently been deactivated]

Merry Christmas everybody & Happy Quilting!

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  msmeow

  last year

  Very nice, Karen! It's so bright and cheerful.

  Donna

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  Larri

  last year

  What a lovely idea, Karen! You are talented, pulling colors from the busiest print, and making all your scraps work together into a fun and lively quilt top. Thanks for sharing the link, too! Happy Quilting!

  Karen S. (7b, NYC) thanked Larri

• Karen S. (7b, NYC)

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  Well I don't have good pix yet, but am finishing turning the binding & can't wait to show the marvelous work of my friend & fellow quilter Janice E.
  

  

  Will get better pix in full light, but for now, look how cool. She essentially put different stitching designs in each column, I love it.

  

  Thanks for the lovely comment Larri, but actually that's Nancy's suggestion to pick a feature fabric & then choose others which coordinate to it. It's a great trick which I learned about almost 20 yrs ago, that if one chooses a multi-colored print, then one can extract out individual colors from the print & it guarantees a harmonious blending.
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  loisflan

  last year

  You and your friend have made a wonderful quilt. It’s so bright and cheerful. Some lucky person will be delighted to receive it. How kind of you. Lois

  Karen S. (7b, NYC) thanked loisflan
• Following up with more recent pictures in much better light.  I really like it, even though bright isn't usually my thing. 

            Janice found THE perfect backing fabric for it.

Look at the great variety of stitches she used, really remarkable!!

I DO hope this inspires other Quilters to make one of their own &/or with their Guilds.  It'd be a lovely tribute to Nancy. 

A Sophisticated Shantung Silk Ikat

Look at this lovely fabric, which looks like a print, but is really a woven.  

The blocks of color so subtly done really speak to me.

It all started with a pinwheel design.

Then I got involved with the directionality of the multi-colored fabric and realized how unique that was to this fabric.  So I decided that pinwheels could keep for another project.

Then I decided to add another row up top. Its latest iteration.

(For top 2 pictures, on white background, the photo credit belongs to Justin Stafford of Keaton Quilts, thank you Justin for the favor.)

The subtle interplay of the soft colors in the woven fabric really move me.

This magical fabric, closer up.

I just can't get enough of it.