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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Beach outing
Birthdays come and go...for mine this year we went for a walk on Dry Lagoon Beach.  It's one of my favorite things to do. Here are a couple of shots from the beach.     Then we had dinner at Trinidad Bay - here's the...
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Thread Leaves
As always, thread is a major factor in my landscape quilts. This scene had bright lacy looking leaves, so I decided to add thread to the top before I added batting and quilted. Here is the effect before the quilting. I used two different Rainbow...
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Patio
For a patio for my quilt, I decided to paint the squares instead of piecing them So first I found a fabric that sort of had a similar color and a bit of texture. I drew my lines onto the paper side of freezer paper...and...
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Transparent grids available
  Here's something to make your photo to quilt enlargement easier. The transparent grids come in these sizes:                20x25"                  25x35"                30x40" The grids are printed on transparent plastic.  You print your own photo on paper and put behind...
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