Quilt Category: People

Little Miss Bright Eyes

LITTLE MISS BRIGHT EYES…(CHRISTINA)

34″ x 39″ tall

I decided it was time to make a quilt of Christina and chose one of her favorite childhood pictures.  I used it as an example for teaching the method to others.

Techniques: Mosaic Picture Piecing using a pixilated picture as a photomap. Heavily quilted.

Little Miss Bright Eyes (back)

Just for fun, I experimented with the back. Using the quilting designs as a guide I colored it in with colored pencils. It was a precursor to the “Looking Back” quilt which followed.

Sunny Girls

 

Sunny Girls

90”x 70”

I received an email with a wonderful picture of my sister’s twin grandchildren.  How cute! – I kept coming back to it and wondering would there be a way to make it into a quilt???  Several months passed before my new piecing idea and my confidence grew to a point that I was ready to try it. It’s still a favorite–I have used it on my business cards.  I have found that though people don’t remember me— they remember this quilt!

As time has past…I have enjoyed displaying this quilt whenever it seemed appropriate.  Now the girls are both married and recently the quilt has been passed on to their care.

Greg’s Gone Fishing

Greg’s Gone Fishing

55″ x 50″ tall

This quilt was a commissioned piece for my friend Jan as a memory quilt of her son. Inspiration photo of Greg Peticolas fishing in a stream in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in 2001.

Photographer Kimberly Peticolas, Greg’s sister.

Techniques: Free form Picture Piecing using a picture as a photomap. Heavily quilted.