Pat Durbin is an award-winning quilt artist who uses unique textiles techniques to create quilts from photos. Pat has had her quilts featured in quilt museums, has won numerous quilt awards, and is author of five quilting books.

Since 2005, Pat Durbin has been making art quilts that resemble paintings.  She find this to be filled with challenges and rewards. Pat has sewn clothes since childhood but now spends most of her sewing time making quilted art.  Using photography as inspiration and various techniques, Pat makes quilted fine art scenes.  Her style is to quilt my art on her home sewing machine.  She has done portraits as well as many landscapes. Read more

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November 28, 2025
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Redwood Arts Association in Eureka is having an exhibit called Beyond the Page until Dec 12.

"Garden Green" is my entry, a painted piece which is heavily quilted and the bottom is shaped to resemble a leaf, with a tiny piping accent.         Award of Merit

Across F street at the Morris Graves Museum is another exhibit from Nov. 29 - Jan. 4. There you can see what I call "Cat Tails". It has a woven sky, Mosaic pieced ground, and a painted tiger with heavy embroidery. It is also heavily quilted and has a shaped edge with tiny piping accenting the binding.

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step 3 dogwood
Next step lots of branches.  My plan keeps changing as I work and it's my pleasure to go with the ideas that come along.  I made a crude outline on transparent cellophane.  This I can use to place elements and can turn it over for...
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Step 2 dogwood
Just so you know...most of the background will be covered with limbs and flowers.  I'm sort of building the back layer that will support all of that and just want different textures and colors to pop through the main event on the front layer. The...
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Step 1 Dogwood
I've started a new project.  I've decided to blog on step by step techniques.  If you're interested I'll try to blog a couple of times a week. I'll share a part of the inspiration photo below.  I'll be working on the background first and then...
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SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Assoc) donation
There is a group dedicated to "art" quilts.  I am a member and this week I am sending a donation for their annual auction.  If you are interested you can see many of the quilts already on the site, but mine is still waiting to...
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