Something From Nothing

Something From Nothing
2010-2020

Just for fun! The theme of this series is a collection of decorator fabric samples that were given to me by a local designer who was cleaning out her workroom. The challenge I assigned myself was:

--- I had to use the colorways of each design all together in the same little quilt.
--- The patchwork or appliqué design of the quilt had to somehow echo the design on the fabric.
--- I could group together individual fabrics that hadn't come to me as a set of colorways around some theme of color or design.
--- I could add trims and buttons and beads as long as they were all found, cast-off objects, which for my purposes includes estate and rummage sale items. (I must admit to picking up some other fabrics here and there along the way, too. This is what being a quilter is all about, isn't it, being unable to say no to a neat new piece of fabric - or two - or three?)
--- I started out buying backing fabrics, but then switched over to using old sheets and such. And I often pieced together scraps of batting left over from other projects.

Learn more about this project at on my blog. When I began this series, using nothing but cast-off supplies was kind of a new idea. I'm so very happy to see that the concept of waste-not-want-not has been expanding in all sorts of settings and materials.

My 10-year project is complete!

Checkerboard
		date: 2010 size: 26" x 26" materials/techniques: decorator fabric,velvet. machine pieced and quilted.
Garden Window 1
		date: 2010 size: 27" x 32.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted.
Garden Window 2
		date: 2010 size: 27" x 32.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted.
Off Center
		date: 2010 size: 27" x 35" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. buttons. machine pieced, appliquéd,and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/one-of-those-amazing-coincidences.html
Polka Dots
		date: 2010 size: 23" x 23" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, cottons, cotton flannel. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2010.
Trellis
		date: 2010 size: 25" x 25" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2010.
Tiles
		date: 2010 size: 34" x 14" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.
On and Off
		date: 2011 size: 13.5" x 12" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.
This Way, That Way
		date: 2011 size: 20" x 20.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Bubbles
		date: 2011 size: 11.5" x 33" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.
Flowers Upon Flowers
		date: 2011 size: 22" x 22" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. buttons. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Concentric
		date: 2011 size: 12" x 12" materials/techniques: wool fabric, buttons. machine appliquéd and quilted, hand stitch embellished.
Corners
		date: 2011 size: 12" x 12" materials/techniques: wool fabric, machine appliquéd and quilted, hand stitch embellished.
Greenly Striped
		date: 2012 size: 21" x 33" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. cord and metallic thread. machine pieced and quilted.
Delft
		date: 2012 size: 35" x 35" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted.
2 1/4"
		date: 2012 size: 21" x 21" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Night Garden
		date: 2012 size: 28" x 24" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. beads. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Woven Memories
		date: 2013 sizes: 21.5" x 20" and 21.5" x 19.5 " materials/techniques: trims and bindings. woven and tied. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/woven-memories.html
What The Birds See
		date: 2013 size: 38" x 45" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-birds-see.html shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2013.
Button Flower
		date: 2014 size: 25" x 25" materials/techniques: pillow sham, buttons. machine quilted.
Berry Stripes
		date: 2014 size: 41" x 42" materials/techniques: fabric scraps from clothing designer Alice Berry. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2015.
Cleopatra's Fan
		date: 2014 size: 38" x 45" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/cleopatras-fan.html shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2014.
Bricks
		date: 2015 size: 44" x 23.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/something-from-nothing.html

Color Blocks
		date: 2015 size: 25" x 50.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/something-from-nothing.html

Fans
		date: 2015 size: 31.5" x 31.5" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, rayon scraps, wide ribbon. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/something-from-nothing.html shown: Evanston Made, 2016.
Gas Giant
		date: 2015 size: 78" x 44" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, found object metal bits and pieces, beads. machine appliquéd. tied. story at: http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-quilt-from-galaxy-far-far-away.html shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2015. Evanston Made, 2016.
4 By 4
		date: 2016 size: 14 1/2" x 14 1/2" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted.
Textures
		date: 2016 size: 21" x 19" materials/techniques: silk sample squares, beads. machine pieced and quilted.
North South East West
		date: 2016 size: 33 1/2" x 33 1/2" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Quadrants
		date: 2016 size: 28" x 28" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.
Leaded Glass
		date: 2016 size: 24" x 34" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, beads. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted. hand beaded. shown: Evanston Made, 2016.
Flower Bed
		date: 2016 size: 43" x 39" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, beads, buttons. folded fabrics. hand embellished and tied. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2016.
Dusk
		date: 2016 size: 25" x 35" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.
Woven
		date: 2016 size: 32 1/2" x 26" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd, and quilted.
Squares, Mostly
		date: 2016 size: 20" x 20" materials/techniques: wool and suede. machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.
Rectangles
		date: 2016 size: 29" x 19" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd, and quilted
Symmetry
		date: 2017 size: 16 1/2" x 16 1/2" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted. shown: Evanston Made, 2017.
Directions
		date: 2017 size: 12 1/2" x 12 1/2" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted. shown: Evanston Made, 2017.
Right Side / Wrong Side
		date: 2017 size: 10" x 93" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.
Tiny
		date: 2017 size: 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.
Cathedral
		date: 2017 size: 32" x 44 1/2" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéed, pieced, and quilted. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2017.
Old Photograph
		date: 2018 size: 31.5" x 33" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéed, pieced, and quilted.
Magic Carpet
		date: 2018 size: 18" x 32" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted. embellished with beads and baubles. shown: Evanston Made, 2018.
Peeking Through
		date: 2019 size: 16" x 16" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, reverse appliquéd, and quilted.
Farmland
		date: 2019 size: 44" x 24" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.
Dolka Pots
		date: 2019 size: 13" x 13" materials/techniques: satin and mixed fiber. machine reverse appliquéd, and quilted. shown: Just Wanna Quilt booth, International Quilt Festival, Quilt Market, Houston, 2019.
30 Pearls
		date: 2019 size: 6" x 6" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, pearl beads. machine appliquéd. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2019.
Floating
		date: 2019 size: 32" x 60" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine pieced and quilted. shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2019.
The Farm
		date: 2020 size: 56" x 23" materials/techniques: decorator fabric, cotton, plastic produce bags. hand and machine appliquéd. machine quilted.
Savanna
		date: 2020 size: 16" x 37" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, beads, wire. machine appliquéd and quilted. hand beaded.
Treasures
		date: 2020 size: 24" x 24" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, found object metal bits and pieces. machine appliquéd and quilted.
Odds and Ends
		date: 2020 size: 32" x 34" materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. machine appliquéd and quilted.

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