Not-quilts are similar to quilts, but more free-form.
For the last two weeks, we looked at the NotQuilts I’ve made for my family and friends. (part 1 and part 2). This week, we’ll finish with two wedding NotQuilts. Skull NotQuilt This wedding NotQuilt was made on a deadline. I wanted to make the happy couple something that would be personal and unique and […]
Last week, we looked at some of the NotQuilts I’ve made for my family and friends. This week, we’ll look at more of them, so you can see how I evolved my techniques for designing NotQuilts. Our bedspread of the Night Sky This was the first one that I made that had a planned design. […]
To better understand the construction and thinking behind NotQuilts, I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks displaying the ones I’ve made for my family and friends and the thinking that went into each design. I hope that you’ll take away from this that it is easier to make these than quilts, yet still […]
Last week, I described a NotQuilt, a blanket which uses a repurposed blanket as the middle layer between the backing fabric on the bottom and pieces of fabric sewed into the top layer. It is not a quilt, hence the name, but it fulfills the function of a quilt, lets me use bits and pieces […]
I got into sewing NotQuilts because I hate the cold about as much as I hate spending money I don’t need to. One of the things we are concerned about at Chez Peschel is temperature control, but doing so without spending money or fossil fuels. Many, many problems can be solved by throwing money at […]