Not sure if I ever actually looked in the magazine or just saw the cover at my fav haunt, Barnes & Noble and their magazine section. I cannot tell the date from this blurry, enlarged jpeg of the cover.
Not sure of anything but that: the cover of that magazine hooked me. The colors, the simplicity that provides clarity, the idea of negative space in a quilt (a new thought for a non-quilter), and it looked as if it would be FUN to make. In Feb 2011 I made my first fans quilt after the tsunami in Japan as a relief quilt.
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| I loved making this quilt so much that I made 3 just the same. I know... novice move... Two were sent to the Tsunami Relief efforts and one I kept. |
Many thanks to Bonnie & Camille. You added a new dimension to my life and the lives of family, friends, and complete strangers.
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| Mini Fan Quilt for Baby Ruth |
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| Mini Fans (4 fans from each charm square) |
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| Joan's Queen Plus quilt for granddaughter |
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| One of the original Fans for Japan. |
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| I think this is the 3rd of the 3 of a kind Fans for Japan. This one I kept. |
5 comments:
I LOVE everyone of your fan quilts! They are so sweet. After seeing all your pictures on your blog I've been thinking about making one (or two). :-)
You've only been quilting since 2011???? Seriously? I love your style.
Oh, thank you! I watercolor more than quilt. We only had sons. Tall (6'6") sons, so my sewing machine was only used when I made them pajamas that would fit them and cutting off pants they had outgrown and hemming them into shorts.
But when grandbabies came along: I wanted to make them quilts! And dear Aunts & Uncles were getting older and I wanted to make them quilts. And disasters occurred, such as the Fukishuma (sp) Japan Tsunami happened and I wanted to make them quilts.
So... I learned to quilt. And I quickly fell in love with fabric. Three months after my first 6 quilts had to be sent out to a longarmer, I bought my first long arm and 10 months later I threw that one away and bought a Gammill. Weeeeeooooooo! All thanks to the magazine cover featuring Bonnie & Camille's Fun & Easy Fan quilt.
Beautiful!! Those fan quilts are all quite wonderful - there's nothing like some curved piecing in a quilt! :-)
Are you seriously saying that you only started quilting in 2011!?! And now you quilt for others!?! You are a force to be reckoned with!!!
I love your fan quilts - they are so fresh and fun.
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