Spotlight: Brian Haggard, Embroidery Artist
Brian Haggard has a gift for seeing vintage items and reimagining them combined into a cohesive work of fiber art. He artfully blends old with new to create an entirely...
Embroidered Quilts
Adding embroidery and simple stitches to quilts is popular with fiber artists. From table runners to full-size quilts, hand stitching on a quilt adds interest and texture.
Pull out embroidery floss and add the hand embroidery to a quilt top. Work on individual quilt blocks one at a time on road trips or binge watching shows for finished embroidered blocks.
Hand Embroidery on Quilts
Spotlight: Stefanie Neuner, Fiber Artist
Stefanie Neuner is a fiber artist creating works to tell the stories of her autistic son and the personal journeys of families living with autism. Look closely at the embellishments...
Spotlight: Deborah Boschert, Textile Artist
Deborah Boschert combines fabric, paint and stitch to create art quilts with movement, color and texture. Her unique style comes from the freedom of a self-taught artist to test boundaries...
More Embroidered Quilts
Spotlight: Olesya Lebedenko, Quilter and Designer
After finding it hard to maintain a creative life in war-torn Ukraine, Olesya Lebedenko closed her business and emigrated to Canada. It all just felt right during a 2017 visit,…
Spotlight: Sharon Boggon, Crazy Quilt Artist
Sharon Boggon may have been born stitching - she doesn't remember being taught, she has just always created with needle and thread. And we reap the benefits of her years…
Spotlight: Janice Gatti, Embroidery Artist
Unlike many artists who create work primarily for others to see, Janice Gatti is more private about her art. When she gets home from her demanding day job, she will…
Letters Home: Cutting the Grass & Feeding Sheep
Even something as simple as having a crew come to cut the lawn can become an event when living in Abadan! The crew arrives on their bicycles with a cart…
Letters Home: A House At Last
As I worked on this quilt, I thought of our parents looking for a house to be able to call home in a land far away from what they knew.…
Letters Home: A Night To Remember
This quilt draws from our Mother’s letter to the grandparents about an evening of dining, live performances, and dancing ending in a boat ride that was not quite as planned!
Letters Home: Flow
Flow illustrates small moments that create an amazingly rich life in an environment with many restrictions, a bit like these times in a very different way!
Letters Home: On Our Way
On Our Way is the first of a series of art quilts inspired by letters our parents wrote home. In 1959, our parents took two little girls to Abadan, Iran.