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Painted quilt – Dragonfly in Spring

March 21, 2012by Joy Voltenburg Leave a comment

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 […]

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Quilting Techniques, Trapunto

Rhode Island and Paducah Quilt Shows

March 5, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 4 Comments

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 […]

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Wholecloth DONE!!

February 5, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 2 Comments

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 […]

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Trapunto

Wholecloth – progress

January 24, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 3 Comments

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 […]

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Trapunto, Work In Progress

Wholecloth progress

January 21, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 3 Comments

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 […]

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Trapunto, Work In Progress

Flooring project finished!

January 15, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 3 Comments

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 […]

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Wholecloth with trapunto

January 3, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 3 Comments

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 […]

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Quilting Techniques, Trapunto, Work In Progress

Filtec thread test

January 1, 2012by Joy Voltenburg 6 Comments

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 […]

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Minkee fabric, Miscellaneous

Meow Meow Meow! Catkin quilt finished

December 5, 2011by Joy Voltenburg Leave a comment

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, […]

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Canadian baby quilt – finished

November 26, 2011by Joy Voltenburg 1 Comment

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.  […]

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