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
checkerboard
checkerboard c

date: 2010

size: 26" x 26"

materials/techniques: decorator fabric,velvet.
machine pieced and quilted.


Garden Window 1
garden window 1
garden window 1 c date: 2010

size: 27" x 32.5"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced and quilted.

Garden Window 2
garden window 2 garden window 2 c date: 2010

size: 27" x 32.5"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced and quilted.

Off Center
off center off center c

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
polka dots polka dots c 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
   
trellis trellis c date: 2010

size: 25" x 25"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.

shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2010.

Tiles
tiles tiles c date: 2010

size: 34" x 14"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.

On and Off
   
on and off On and Off date: 2011

size: 13.5" x 12"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.


This Way, That Way
   
this way that way This Way That Way date: 2011

size: 20" x 20.5"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd and quilted.

Bubbles
   
bubbles Bubbles date: 2011

size: 11.5" x 33"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.

Flowers Upon Flowers
   
flowers Flowers date: 2011

size: 22" x 22"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. buttons.
machine appliquéd and quilted.


Concentric
   
concentric concentric c date: 2011

size: 12" x 12"

materials/techniques: wool fabric, buttons.
machine appliquéd and quilted, hand stitch embellished.

Corners
   
corners corners c date: 2011

size: 12" x 12"

materials/techniques: wool fabric,
machine appliquéd and quilted, hand stitch embellished.

Greenly Striped
   
greenly striped Greenly Striped date: 2012

size: 21" x 33"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. cord and metallic thread.
machine pieced and quilted.


Delft
   
delft Delft date: 2012

size: 35" x 35"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted.


2 1/4"
   
two quarter Two and a Quarter

date: 2012

size: 21" x 21"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd and quilted.


Night Garden
   
night garden Night Garden

date: 2012

size: 28" x 24"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics. beads.
machine appliquéd and quilted.



Woven Memories
   
woven memories 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
   
botanic garden botanic garden close

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
   
button flower button flower close

date: 2014

size: 25" x 25"

materials/techniques: pillow sham, buttons.
machine quilted.


Berry Stripes
   
Berry stripes Berry stripes close 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
   
Cleo's Fan Cleo's Fan close 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
   
Bricks 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
   
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    
Fans 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
   
Gas Giant 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    
4 By 4 4 By 4 close

date: 2016

size: 14 1/2" x 14 1/2"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced and quilted.


Textures
   
Textures date: 2016

size: 21" x 19"

materials/techniques: silk sample squares, beads.
machine pieced and quilted.


North South East West
   
North South East West North South East West closeup

date: 2016

size: 33 1/2" x 33 1/2"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd and quilted.


Quadrants
   
Quadrants Quadrants  closeup

date: 2016

size: 28" x 28"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.


Leaded Glass
   
Leaded Glass Leaded Glass closeup

date: 2016

size: 24" x 34"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, beads.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted. hand beaded.

shown: Evanston Made, 2016.


Flower Bed
   
Flower Bed Flower Bed C

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
   
Dusk Dusk C

date: 2016

size: 25" x 35"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.


Woven
   
Woven Woven C

date: 2016

size: 32 1/2" x 26"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd, and quilted.


Squares, Mostly
   
squares, mostly squares, mostly c

date: 2016

size: 20" x 20"

materials/techniques: wool and suede.
machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted.


Rectangles
   
Rectangles Rectangles C


date: 2016

size: 29" x 19"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd, and quilted


Symmetry
   
Symmetry Symmetry C

date: 2017

size: 16 1/2" x 16 1/2"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.

shown: Evanston Made, 2017.


Directions
   
Directions Directions C 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
   
RightSide/WrongSide Rightside/Wrongside c

date: 2017

size: 10" x 93"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.


Tiny
Tiny
 

date: 2017

size: 5 1/4" x 5 1/4"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.


Cathedral
Cathedral Cathedral c

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
   
Old Photograph Old Photograph date: 2018

size: 31.5" x 33"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéed, pieced, and quilted.


Magic Carpet
   
magic carpet 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
   
circles and squares circles and squares c date: 2019

size: 16" x 16"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, reverse appliquéd, and quilted.


Farmland
   
farmland
farmland c

date: 2019

size: 44" x 24"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced, appliquéd, and quilted.


Dolka Pots
 

 

dolka pots
dolka pots c

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    
30 pearls  

date: 2019

size: 6" x 6"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, pearl beads.
machine appliquéd.

shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2019.


Floating
 

 

Floating
Floating c date: 2019

size: 32" x 60"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine pieced and quilted.

shown: Fine Art of Fiber, 2019.


The Farm
 

 

the farm The Farm c

date: 2020

size: 56" x 23"

materials/techniques: decorator fabric, cotton, plastic produce bags.
hand and machine appliquéd. machine quilted.


Savanna
   
savanna savanna c date: 2020

size: 16" x 37"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, beads, wire.
machine appliquéd and quilted. hand beaded.

Treasures
   
treasures date: 2020

size: 24" x 24"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics, found object metal bits and pieces.
machine appliquéd and quilted.

Odds and Ends
   
odds and ends c date: 2020

size: 32" x 34"

materials/techniques: decorator fabrics.
machine appliquéd and quilted.

 

 

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