Painted quilt – Dragonfly in Spring
I’ve always liked painting and when I first saw some of Irena Bluhm’s quilts, I was fascinated with the process. While in Milwaukee at the Showcase last August, I picked […]
Author Archives: Joy Voltenburg
Rhode Island and Paducah Quilt Shows
Those are the locations two of my quilts are going!!! Winter Garden was juried into MQX East in Rhode Island – a national quilt show in April. AND Sunflower Stars […]
Wholecloth DONE!!
Well, almost done. I still have to trim, soak and bind. I’d like to block it, but I don’t have the room to do that. Overall, I LOVE LOVE LOVE […]
Wholecloth – progress
I’m making progress on the wholecloth quilt. Here are a few more pics. I’m excited about this quilt and extremely disappointed at the same time. The top looks great! The […]
Wholecloth progress
I’m making progress on my wholecloth quilt. I loaded it this week and have managed to complete nearly one pass. This shows you what it looks like after I have […]
Flooring project finished!
Yeah! I can finally get my quilt frame back up. The day after Christmas, I took down my quilting frame, emptied the room of everything – moving most of the […]
Wholecloth with trapunto
In August, 2011, I attended a wholecloth design class taught by Karen McTavish at the Milwaukee Machine Quilters Showcase. During the class, we talked about the basics of designing a […]
Filtec thread test
Filtec sent some lucky quilters some new thread to test out recently. Their claim was that this new thread was unbreakable! While I did manage to break it once by […]
Meow Meow Meow! Catkin quilt finished
I just took this cute cat quilt off the frame. What a cute quilt! I treated the cats as applique and stitched around them. In the black and white sashing, […]
Canadian baby quilt – finished
I’m not sure what this pattern is, so I’m calling it the baby quilt from Canada. This is such a cute little quilt. Made from flannel, I love the colors. […]
Custom Quilts of Joy 