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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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Finished! Midnight Blue

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May 14, 2026
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Midnight Blue   36" wide x 41" tall

This was a fun project that happened to get pushed aside while I finished a redwood quilt.

It's complete now and I still love the color.

 

 

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800treeleaves
  • February 11, 2015
  • / Misc

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...
800patio2
  • February 11, 2015
  • / Misc

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...
asseen TQS 125x125
  • December 9, 2013
  • / Misc

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...
b1001_its_a_wrap_ii
  • March 2, 2010
  • / Misc

Book Reviews

Here are a couple of books you might enjoy taking a look at.... Quilted Devotions by Lisa Cogar This pretty new book has 24 Biblical Blocks featured as well as examples of setting them into quilts.  Some of the blocks are traditional, and some brand new...
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