Shelton, WA 98584
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Our Own Quilts
The quilts pictured below were made for our own use or as gifts for family members.
Of course, family quilts get everyone involved: even the webmaster gets his fingers pried off the keyboard from time to time and put to work hand-stitching binding.
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"Leonardo's Garden,"a lap-sized original quilt, designed, pieced, and quilted by Larye. This was designed on EQ5 for the 2004 Moda Challenge, but the piecing of the small quarter-circle pieces became problematic: the quilt was completed barely in time for the 2005 Bitterroot Quilt Guild show. This is Larye's third quilt, and his first attempt to quilt on the longarm machine. |
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Detail of the quilting on the lap quilt above. The design is a Fibonacci spiral, where the radius of each successive quarter-circle is determined by the formula: f(0) = 1, f(1) = 1, for all n > 1, f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2). The ratio of adjacent members of the series converges on the value (sqrt(5) + 1)/2, also known as the Golden Mean. "Fibonacci" (Son of the good-natured one) is the nickname for Leonardo Pisano, the mathematician who developed the formula in the early 13th century and also introduced the Arabic numeral system to Europe. |
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A lap-sized star quilt, made as a class sample. Quilted with feather wreaths in the corners and chevron gridding in the star points. |
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Detail of the feather wreath quilting in the upper right corner of the star quilt above. |
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