Machine pieced and hand quilted.

Dimensions

9.5" X 9.5"

Artist Statement

Cathy likes traditional patterns and thought she'd try to make a miniature quilt after seeing some on exhibit at Virginia Quilt Museum.

Biography

Cathy has been quilting since the early 1970’s starting with a pillow and progressing to bed sized quilts. Now she prefers to make wall hangings and lap quilts. She finds quilting to be very relaxing as well as a wonderful activity where she has developed some longtime friendships with wonderful people.

Credit

Public domain

Shipping

Free shipping and handling

Cotton fabrics, buttons, and ribbons.

Dimensions

11" X 11"

Artist Statement

Darlene loved the pattern for the candle mat and wanted to support the Virginia Quilt Museum. It was a perfect match.

Biography

Darlene is a real estate agent by professional, but loves to quilt in her free time. She particularly enjoys making gifts for her friends, much to their delight!

Credit

Pattern from Happy Hollow Designs.  Website: www.happyhollowdesigns.com

Shipping

Free shipping and handling

Watercolor on fabric with fabric medium, thread painting.

Dimensions

11.5" X 14"

Artist Statement

Denise takes many pictures of the Peaks of Otter from her farm in Amherst County, Virginia. One of those photos was the inspiration for this art quilt.

Biography

Denise began quilting eleven years ago when she retired from teaching and moved to Forest, VA. She does many types of fiber art and also does traditional piecing and quilting. She loves to paint her own fabric!

Credit

Original design

Stencil on cotton, machine quilted.

Dimensions

13.25" X 12.5"

Artist Statement

Diane wanted to try a new technique.

Biography

Diane has been a quilter since 1979 and enjoys trying different piecing and applique techniques. Teaching quilting has been a big part of her life. Currently she is focused on making Quilts of Valor to honor our veterans.

Credit

Original design

Shipping
Free shipping and handling for this quilt.

Stencil on cotton, machine quilted.

Dimensions

14.5" X 12"

Artist Statement

Diane wanted to try a new technique.

Biography

Diane has been a quilter since 1979 and enjoys trying different piecing and applique techniques. Teaching others to quilt has been a big part of her life. Currently she is focused on making Quilts of Valor to honor our veterans.

Credit

Original design

Shipping

Free shipping and handling for this quilt.

Cotton fabric; machine pieced and machine quilted.

Dimensions

18.75" X 16"

Artist Statement

"Stacked Bricks" was inspired by two sample packets of 2" Benartex print lines, "Documentaries" and "Anniversary Florals" given to Estelle by a friend. She had been wanting to do a miniature quilt and the stacked bricks pattern was perfect for the small precut squares. She also had been thinking about creating a small quilt for the VQM online auction and needed a break between two larger projects. Thus the stars aligned and "Stacked Bricks" was the result!

Biography

Estelle Porter is an art quilter with a wide range of styles in her work; she is best known for her house portraits and fabric landscapes. Her work has been featured in American Quilter magazine and Quilters Newsletter magazine. She is a member of Country School Quilters, Montpelier, VA.

Credit

Public Domain

Cotton fabrics; machine pieced and quilted.

Dimensions

15" X 15"

Artist Statement

Georgia loves red and white fabrics and used leftover scraps to make this little quilt to benefit the Virginia Quilt Museum.

Biography

Georgia has been quilting for over 20 years. She enjoys both machine and hand work. Her good friend Sherry Whitford pushes her to try new things - and this was the result of one of those pushes!

Credit

Public Domain

Shipping

Free shipping and handling for this quilt.

Cotton fabric; wool applique with hand blanket stitch; button embellishments; machine quilted.

Dimensions

15" X 13.5"

Artist Statement

Janet inherited the background from her friend Martha's UFO collection and used it to create a snowman scene.

Biography

Janet has been quilting over twenty years. She enjoys traditional quilt patterns by hand and machine as well as small art quilts. She is active in the Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild and has served on the BOD of the museum for six years.

Credit

Original Design

Machine pieced; machine and hand quilted; hand embroidery; button embellishments.

Dimensions

19.25" X 20"

Artist Statement

Janet wanted to try a small version of the Shenandoah pattern and the Christmas tree fabric was perfect for the project.

Biography

Janet has been quilting over twenty years. She enjoys traditional quilt patterns by hand and machine as well as small art quilts. She is active in the Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild and has served on the BOD of the museum for six years.

Credit

Inspired by Shenandoah Pattern by Creative Sewlutions.  Website: www.creativesewlutions.com

Cotton fabrics; thread painting; machine applique and quilted; bead embellishments.

Dimensions

24" X 24"

Artist Statement

This little quilt was inspired by the song "The Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" by K. T. Tunstall, a Scottish singer and songwriter. The song was released in 2005.  The background is based on two photos I had in my files from Montpelier and the Blacksburg area.  Other portions were based on inspiration images on the internet. Taking fabric from my landscape collection, I layered it on batting and backing fabric and sewed it down simply.  Later, I added thread painting and embellished it with beads and wool. I chose this song for my Challenge quilt since it was fun to sing as I worked on my quilt. I like working on landscape quilts so this was a natural choice.

Biography

Jeanne is a member of the Stone House Quilters and enjoys all aspects of quilting. She also loves photography. Check out her Pinterest page.

Credit

Original design

This table runner is machine pieced and machine quilted.

Dimensions

14" X 36"

Biography

Jenny is a native of the Shenandoah Valley and has been quilting since she was 16 when her father helped her with her first quilt. She and her husband are retired, and they live in Harrisonburg. Jenny is a member of the VQM Board of Directors.

Shipping

Free shipping and handling

Hand appliquéd; machine pieced; hand quilted.

Dimensions

14.5" X 14.5"

Artist Statement

Katy loves Sunbonnet Sue and winter!

Biography

Katy is a retired registered nurse who began quilting in earnest 10 years ago. She loves quilting, driving the "back roads" with her husband of 47 years, and spending time with her 3 sons and 4 grandsons.

Credit

Pattern from The Ultimate Sunbonnet Sue Collection, published in 2000 by Leisure Arts, Inc.

Shipping

Free shipping and handling

Commercial cotton; beads; pussy willows.

Dimensions

14" X 8" X 5"

Artist Statement

Mary Beth started a series of thread painted wild life quilts when she realized she needed to use a lot of her novelty fabrics so she could buy some more!

Biography

Mary Beth is a quilt artist living in Charlottesville, Virginia . She has a soft spot for incorporating unusual (and frequently 3-D) materials and techniques in her work.

Credit

Original design

Shipping

Shipping and handling $7.00. Free shipping if bid is over $150.00.

Dimensions

18" X 18"

Artist Statement

The worlds of art and vintage collide in this expressive challenge. A block from 1940 was paired with the practice piece from art quilter Mary Jo Bowers.

Biography

Mary teaches, lectures and is a curator of all things for quilting.

Credit

Original design

Fused machine buttonhole applique; machine quilted; cotton fabrics.

Dimensions

22" X 25.25"

Artist Statement

Mary is making a series of small quilts to try various materials and techniques. She used EQ7 for the basic design for this vase of flowers.

Biography

Mary resided in Virginia most of her life but now spends time in Florida too. She is a former member of Quilters Unlimited of Northern Virginia and an active member of two Florida guilds. She loves appliqué - both hand and machine.

Credit

Original Design

Texture magic; machine embroidery stitches; tulle; cotton lace.

Dimensions

16.5" X 14.5"

Artist Statement

Maryann finds a valuable sense of quiet and balance in her life when she is designing.

Biography

Maryann's creativity comes from the feel, texture and prints of a fabric, a photo, a travel or daily experience, the excitement of attending quilting design class, meeting other fiber quilt artists, actively participating with the her guild, reading about another design concept or another fiber/fabric artist, displaying my art, working as an active member at C’ville Arts, volunteering at The Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg Virginia, and having a membership in SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates).

Credit

Original design

This table runner is machine pieced and machine quilted.

Dimensions

14" X 36"

Biography

Nancy has lived in the Shenandoah Valley for over 23 years, and has been quilting for close to 40 years. Nancy is a project engineer (part of why she loves math and quilting) for James Madison University and lives near Elkton, VA. She is a member of the VQM Board of Directors.

Credit

Original design

Shipping

Free shipping and handling

Batik fabrics; machine pieced; machine and hand quilted in big stitch.

Dimensions

11.25" X 11.25"

Artist Statement

Paula's inspiration for the little quilt was the logo for Blacksburg which is 16 Squares on point.

Biography

Paula was selected as “2001 Teacher of the Year” by The Professional Quilter Magazine. She has been quilting since the early 1970s and teaching for over twenty years. Her quilts, patterns and articles have been published in magazines and books. Paula is the former president of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Quilt Museum and co-author of the book, “Quilts of Virginia: Birth of America through the Eye of a Needle."

Credit

Original design

Cotton fabrics; fused applique; hand and machine quilted.

Dimensions

14.5" X 12"

Artist Statement

Phyllis made this little quilt as a result of a guild challenge using hexagons. She used the methods in the book Quick and Easy Hexie Quilts by Peggy Rhodes and Julia Wood. The dimensional hexagons reminded her of the texture of a pineapple.

Biography

Phyllis has always sewn clothes, bedding, etc. but in 1989 she took a quilting class and has loved it ever since. She is a member of the Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild and is well respected for her fine hand work and creative ideas.

Credit

Original design

English paper-pieced; hand quilted.

Dimensions

17.5" X 12.5"

Artist Statement

Priscilla thought that these batiks just seemed to want to be together in the bright sunlight of the yellow background.

Biography

Priscilla has been a NQA Certified Quilt judge since 1986. She is a member of the NQA Board of Directors and a member of the Waterford Quilters Guild.

Credit

Public Domain

This c. 1900 top features great prints including indigo blues, turkey reds, florals, geometrics, and plaids. Alternating solid blocks with double four patch blocks. Grid is 9 down X 8 across. Hand pieced. Good condition except for some holes in two of the solid blocks. This provides an opportunity to add a special design to make the top unique to you!

Dimensions

82" X 73"

This c. 1900 top features great prints including indigo blues, turkey reds, florals, geometrics, shirtings, and plaids. Alternating nine patch blocks with crazy quilt blocks. Grid is 6 down X 5 across. The blocks are hand pieced and the crazy patches are pieced onto a foundation. Some of the basting stitches are still in the blocks. The blocks are machine pieced together. Good condition with some small age spots.

Dimensions

82" X 68.5"

The members of the Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild wanted to share their love of batiks to benefit the Virginia Quilt Museum and collected 50 fat quarter batiks. There are a few additional unique fat quarters in the collection.

The Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild is an umbrella group serving approximately 150 quilters in the area surrounding Charlottesville, Virginia. The group is a guild partner of the Museum at the stitchers level and makes significant contributions to the museum in membership, volunteering and donations to the Silent Auction fundraiser.

Collection of 12 or more unused quilt, embroidery, and garment patterns - something for everybody!  Includes a Laurel Burch Fanciful Feline Kit (finished size 41" X 40") and a vintage Miniature Double Irish Chain quilt kit (8 1/3" X 10") by Rebecca Schaefer and a copy of her book Working in Miniatures: A Machine Piecing Approach to Miniature Quilts.

Items include 12 fat quarters of reproduction fabrics from the Shenandoah Crazy quilt with postcard pattern "Senior Prom" by Villa Rosa Designs – from the Virginia Quilt Museum collection. Also included are: 6 fat quarters with postcard pattern "Eureka" by Villa Rosa Designs, "Let Heaven and Nature Sing" pattern for a mock penny rug and 12 hand dyed wool pieces.

Kit contains 6 1/2 yards of 100% cotton fabric from the "Holiday Rose Collection" by Cranston and 1 3/8 yards of polyester batting. Designed by Retta Warehime.

Finished Quilt Dimensions

46.5 "X 46.5"

Twelve Dresden plates appliqued onto whole cloth. Good condition with one plate requiring minor repair.

Dimensions

84" X 63"

Original Artwork in Pastels

Dimensions

12" X 16" (standard frame size)

Artist Statement

Melissa has many photos of rural barns in Virginia. She welcomed the opportunity to paint one with the VQM block to benefit the museum.

Biography

Melissa is an Atlanta based artist working in watercolor and pastel. She prefers subjects with vibrant colors and interesting structural elements and enjoys painting from photographs. Melissa does commission work of pets, children, and landscapes. She can be contacted at her Etsy website: www.etsy.com/shop/msaulsbury

Pattern by Rebecca Silbaugh in her book entitled Seamingly Scrappy. 

Kit Contents

Book, 1 1/2 yards of white background fabric, 42 assorted batiks charm squares, plus additional batik fabrics substituted for a fat eighth, binding, a plastic template, batting, and backing.

Finished Quilt Dimensions

34.5" X 34.5"

Designed by Jinny Beyer

Finished Quilt Dimensions

84" X 84"

Artist Statement

Emerald Isle is based in the traditional Irish Chain Pattern. Jinny placed her colors to achieve a woven effect in the quilt.