Center medallion (36x36) of my July quilt “Home Of the Brave”

It really is square and will lie flat but the trepunto stuffing pooches it up in weird places.

(I’m trying a technique—trepunto--where you add stuffing to give the quilting a relief quality like on stone carvings.  In the old days they slit open the back of the quilt and pushed in extra stuffing and sewed the back back up.  The new way adds the stuffing while you’re piecing, before you quilt.)

Close up you can see the outline/beginning of the quilting design marked on the inner borders.  The red border will be about ¼” once I add the next round.  The quilt should be 60x60 unless I keep going after I get to the end of what I have designed on paper.

From the gallery doorway looking into the studio.

(I’m standing in a little hall gallery that I’ll hang quilts in.  Eventually.  Right now it’s bare but has the lighting.  You’ll notice all the walls in the studio are bare too!)  The grey block is the design wall.  You put pieces of fabric up and they stay just like magic.  The truck holds craft supplies   The large storage pieces under the table hold large cuts of fabric because I often buy 4-6 yards of something I really like but don’t know what I’m going to do with.  The design wall is 8’x8’.  I have to use a step ladder to reach the top.

Just to the right of the door is a table with small ironing board and a selection of fabrics I might use on the current quilt.  You can see my chair is totally unsuitable but I’ve made every quilt I’ve made in it and haven’t gotten around to getting a better one.  On the far wall is the big ironing board, my TV and “current work.”  That cabinet has quilts staged but not started.  The blue box holds templates and drafting supplies.  The three-stack holds scraps, a quilt waiting for quilting and my appliqué supplies.

Here’s the frame I work on in my den.  I usually have one on the frame, one on the design wall, one appliqué project, and one quilt in planning at any given time.