New Pixel quilt..It's a Winner!

I am very fond of "pixelating" images. This is my newest quilt called "Raspberries" It was a challenge entry at the local quilt shop: Fabric Fusions, Brown Deer, WI. It won Viewers Choice! The two challenge fabrics were the light purple pearl fabric and the purple and greenish brown border fabric. There are 30 different fabrics used in this color blending quilt. The larger squares are 2 inches and the small checker board areas are made up of half inch squares! I pulled a palette of greens and purples by scanning the fabrics into my Paint program. As I was pulling the palette I thought..boy, this looks like a black raspberry.. thus, the title of the work! The quilt is quilted as stitch in the ditch in the light corner (to give the illusion of a seeded raspberry) and there are vines and raspberry leaves in the green areas, for the border, I followed the stipple-ish areas! The quilt measures approximately 27 x 32 inches.

New BBD Wool!

Here is the first of several new wool creations for BBD. We are teaming up with Mary Flanagan Woolens (www.mfwoolens.com). This is a small pillow in more traditional wool colors using BBD images. This is our version of the Scrappy Sunflower and bee (from our IRIS pattern). Mary's wools are very soft and extremely quilter friendly! The deep purple on the sunflower is actually french knots using Mary's hand dyed variegated wool yarns..she has several colors! Wonderful for embellishment. I am still working on a few more images for introduction at Market this Fall..stay tuned.

Stay tuned!

My son is a Sophomore in High School and has been working on a new web page for me! Stay tuned..hopefully in a month or so you will see additional pictures and information about terri kirchner's fabriKations!

BREAST CANCER SHOWHOUSE QUILT

I had the great pleasure of working with two friends on this quilt for our local Breast Cancer Showhouse Committee. This quilt (a queen) will be raffled off during the Showhouse run this Fall. For those of you not in our area: The Showhouse is a project that highlights a specific home, usually new construction or an older mansion on the Lake) brings in several interior designers to "do" rooms and then opens the house to visitors to raise money for cancer research at the Medical College of Milwaukee...all monies go directly to research!

Last year a good friend made a simple quilt which I had the pleasure of quilting for her. It was offered as a "boutique" item. Though the quilt made a good piece of change, Ellie decided if we made a larger quilt, funded by our North Shore Quilter's Guild and raffled it we could make more! So here we are today: The quilt was accepted by the Showhouse as a raffle item, tickets will be printed shortly and the quilt will be a raffle item displayed in the House. Good news for everyone involved in the project!

The quilt is a queen, 100% cotton with cotton batting. It is machine pieced and long armed quilted. It has 3-D yoyo flowers with button centers. Truly a whimsical quilt! If you are interested in purchasing tickets please just drop me an email!