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Did you Know Your Quilt Is Not Square?
We do like to break our from the traditional formats, and not-being-square is always fun
Some years ago (HH writes) I had this big tree quilt juried into one of the Mancuso shows in the USA. It came back with a Judges Note "Did you Know Your Quilt Is Not Square?" - Well, yes, it's much wider at the bottom...
Intentionally...
This is it - Autumn Forest, by Helen Howes
And this is Enchanted Forest 7, another in the series. Interestingly, when sent images for publication, I need to tell people that they are not distorted in the photos, or they try to "de-tombstone" the shape. FOQ 2024 in Art
Yellow Brick Road, by Aitchbee - note the hole!
Best Art Quilt at West Country Quilt Show and shown at Festival of Quilts as part of a Spotlight exhibition
This is "Which Way Up? by Aitchbee. It can hang in several different ways
This miniature (about 10 inches across) circular silk quilt was made from a much bigger idea from the Wife-Made site
Also with a hole, please note... Click here to find the pattern
Sometimes the shaping is just practical - this is Delta Diamonds, by Aitchbee, the cutaways are to accomodate the bed on her boat home
"Best Piecing" at WCQS!
And our almost-triumphant Maiko, from Festival 2025's Two-person category
And various ideas from Festival of Quilts in 2024 and 2025...
By Christine Chester, from her retrospective exhibit, 2024
Deborah Collins made this multiplication of circles...
Contemporary category, 2025
Top and bottom both shaped, on "Flurry" by Heulwen Price, Contemporary, 2025
Gallo Grotto's exhibit had the most astonishing quilts, 2025
Helen Creasey made this superb Mandala, 2024
Antari Foster's gorgeous miniature, 2025
Leah Higgins won 2nd in Art with this delightful quilt - she makes all her own fabrics. 2025
"The Chaos of Loss" by Jennifer Stokes, in the Art category, 2025
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