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Innovation/Renovation

Luke — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0000

I have made another piece for the La Conner Museum by request, for their Innovation/Renovation invitational.

I took a literal approach to the query.
Here’s the image of the Building I used as inspiration:

Here’s the final piece:

I like to use invitationals and donation pieces to try new techniques.
I incorporated more machine embroidery in this one.

let me know what you think.

or go to La Conner Washington to see it in a few months.

[Flightless Birds] My latest series for the show in sept

Luke — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:19:44 +0000

I am making a new series of smaller works for the shop at the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum I am going to put these few up at my show in Sept to see how people respond.

[Flightless Bird #1] Penguin

[Flightless Bird #2] Chicken

[Flightless Bird #3] Puffin

Having a show in Seattle!

Luke — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:30:43 +0000

Come see it!
Opening the 2nd of Sept.
6-9pm

625 first ave Seattle Wa

I’ll be displaying the first of my Flightless bird series.

[technically Puffins can fly, but have you seen them? fat little birds have a really hard time getting off the ground. the rest are flightless I promise]

some close up pictures of the pattern used for the “Bed Clothes”

Luke — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:15:45 +0000

Some swatches of the patterns I have worked up with the Used clothes fabric for the “Bed Clothes” run of quilts

Dutchman’s Puzzle

Tumbling blocks

Rail Fence

Log Cabin

Lone Star

Benji, done at last…long last

Luke — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:02:31 +0000

this project logged over 300 hours on the ole quilt-o-meter.
I am so happy with it, and almost equally happy it’s over.

This is a project working with a bay area designer for a bed quilt.

he wanted a famous person on his bed, and with his love of Magritte we designed it to be a bit uncanny.

I wanted the image to show up when viewed on the bed, since most of my work is designed for viewing on the wall.

Here are the three pertinent images:

front:

the whole enchilada:

a picture of the quilt hung up:

what do you think?

Latest project for the AAQ

Luke — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:22:50 +0000

I am on the Board for the Alliance for American Quilts, and we are starting an awesome contest for design schools. I made the first project to showcase the how-to and to get an idea of how easy/difficult the project would be.

the whole thing took me a day, including the video.

my youtube Debut.
inspiring i know.

here is a picture of the quilt:

its all from a jacket [as you no doubt saw in the oh so interesting video]

Coolest new project i have done in a while!

Luke — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:22:36 +0000

In taking pictures of my latest work i noticed that when they were hung up where the sun could shine through them some interesting effects came about…

I decided to make a little project as a present for the little lady while she was out of town using this as the generative idea.

its a secret quilt that only reveals when held up to the light.

here is a picture of it on the floor:

here is the image held up to the light:

HQ promo for a good product

Luke — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:26:35 +0000

I have been sewing on my HQ Fusion long arm machine for a few weeks now and love every moment of it.
It arrived in a daunting 9 box spread and took a bit of engineering to get together, but now that its up I have had not a single bit of trouble with it.

I am loving how much faster I can sew and what amount of detail i can bring into my work.

My weekly update on the Benji Quilt.

Luke — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:04:58 +0000

This quilt has taken me 300 hours already.
I think [Hope] it will be my most successful piece when its complete.

Here is the figure in fabric layed out on the driveway:

From roughly the right place to see the image:

here is the Background its going on:

Jeans

Luke — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:44:36 +0000

As a quilter it seems to me that I should not have to walk around with holes in all my pants.
somehow all my jeans decided to have their knees bust out at the same time. some I have had for 5plus years and some for a matter of months. dunno what that’s all about.
I took a whole day and made patches for them. some more interesting than others.
here is one pair that took quite a makeover.

I’ll make you some if you want.