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.

Curved Log Cabin: Empire Quilt Guild Raffle Quilt

I hadn't planned to participate in making this Raffle Quilt, thinking I wouldn't have the time. This is for Empire Quilt Guild's 2019 Show coming up on the weekend of March 23-24.

But when I saw the Block, I couldn't resist. Am a blue green lover & this specifically asked for that, brights, emeralds, royal blues, teals, purple, jewel tones, my favorite palette. For this less common take on a log cabin block (which I'd never yet done).

I saw the coloring of the blocks for this Quilt & realized I wanted to make a couple of blocks.  

I was so pleased with how these came out.

The varying widths of the strips are what give it that rounded, ball like effect.

Look at the finished quilt which seen in person is just stunning!

I am delighted to have been part of this effort & especially proud to share the fact that my two blocks ended up in the center.  The first block in the NE quadrant of the center ball.  The second, above & diagonally to the left is my other block!

Pink Fish Blue Fish

Fun and playful; the fish fabric got me going. This is my own original design, inspired by the fabrics, their coloring and the maritime theme.  I'm a beach person, from childhood. 

The asymmetrical quilting was a first for me, suggested by the idea of rippling water. 

Dancing Laundry on the Clothesline

This was so much fun, a novelty fabric donated to my Quilter's Guild by Nick & Nora, Crazy, laundry dancing on a clothes line.

I was provided a packet of most of these fabrics & added a few of my own.

The purple print is a Liberty of London fabric, with its lush, marvelous hand & a great variety of purples.



The odd shot of mens' underwear; at first I was a bit embarrassed to feature this in a quilt.

But it also offered such an unusual color palette that I became intrigued.  

The pink & purple (lilac) & yellow, w/shots of white & beige.

  

Then too I had the beautiful lilac/purples print from Liberty, juxtaposed w/ the chalk stripe, a nice, textilian interplay of bold  & brash along side banker-style conservative gave me a chuckle.

More of  the playful colorings:  dancing lilac  trousers ... striped polo shirts are good too!  It brought out a whimsy in me in combining the fabrics & improvising the layout.   

Look, even a pair of birds sitting on the clotheslines taking in the scene, sweet. 

A fitting backing fabric completes the picture.

I believe this quilt  made for charity was given to a shelter for battered women.  Hope it makes someone there smile as it did me.

Baby Quilt for Steven O.

and his Two Fathers

Have been working on organizing my fabric collection (known among Quilters as one’s fabric stash) among other things.  Early this Summer I recall seeing a cute fabric in that stash of little rocketships in Blue on a White ground.  I recall thinking a little boy would love this fabric.  Well a bit later I learned that an old friend had changed his mind about having kids and somewhat later in life has decided to become a Father.  So I made a baby quilt for his new son.  What a happy thing to hear about.  He has no idea, when he sent me a picture of his baby boy and I looked into that little face, the idea of this baby quilt was born.  Turned out so well, I am delighted with it.  

Here's where I started out.

A pattern known among quilters as a Disappearing 9 Patch (D9P).

A sweet print for the back, referring to Buffalo, where the Father and I met and went to College together.  

Snowmen commemorating both Buffalo and Snow Belt, and hopefully soon to be delighting a toddler.

Am pretty pleased with the result, calming, soothing, the reverse charming and cute.

Some pictures when complete; indoors.

More pictures, but from outdoors, different, natural lighting. 

On a park bench near my home. 

My label (from the Quilt Alliance) with small dedication to their son Steven, maybe he grow Happy and Healthy.

I hope to Fedex it to them soon as a total surprise.

Some additional pictures.

Am happy to say the recipients were delightfully surprised, it was as well received as I’d hoped!

Red & Orange Roses: a donated Liberty of London print

The original Liberty of London print that inspired the quilt.

The Quilt Guild to which I belong, Empire 
Quilter's Guild has a strong component of Charity work for which we often have fabrics donated to us.  

I made this Quilt from donated fabrics & it was long arm quilted by friend and Fellow Quilter Janice E. She did a remarkable job with the quilting!

Outdoors, in natural light.

Here are different areas which she quilted differently to emphasize various aspects.  

Lovely variegated thread.

A nice variety of effects.

Look, she even signed it for our Guild, when I saw that I was so proud! 

Thank you Janice for our marvelous collaboration & Liberty of London for your gorgeous fabrics.

Here's the back.