Blog Posts - lucindaquilts

Bright blessings

9/2/2023

I recently took a week-long series of workshops with Jessica Serran, whose work I truly admire, and -- as she promised -- taking just a few marketing/networking actions CONSCIOUSLY, and fearlessly, and lovingly, (all that sounds easier than it is), did indeed shake things up around my art. The panel I did for Irish St. Brigid's Day is in a museum in Dublin, and in a cool video.
www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/ fbclid=IwAR1qhn5PZscP6gX0i3wKwbtPavcuAynTgpfWijf0atI-HXE27wCfHSze7Mw
I have a radio interview at 3pm Guad (Central US) time on Valentine's Day, where I'll talk about quilts' historical/social significance, etc. (live broadcast at www.guanatozfm.net), and I'm starting to work on scheduling Open Studios so that the map quilts, in particular (see the Engl/Irel/Scotland and Pacific Rim tabs here on the site), find their way into relevant homes or offices or consulates or restaurants...

baby quilts

21/5/2022

lucindaquilts.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9666007

These baby blasts from the past are here to remind me to post some of the ones that are still available --

My OTHER website, with lots of photos...

21/5/2022

...that never made it over here.
https://lucindaquilts.webs.com
Whether you can easily navigate to THAT 'lucindaquilts' is still a bit of a mystery to me, but if you DO get there the Photo Gallery has tons of photos (like 200!) that really need to 'migrate' some day. I'm thinking of just how to get the help I need to be able to relax about all this website busines: my latest bright idea is to exchange English classes for website help, as I DO know some good website designer/managers here in Guadalajara, who MIGHT want to jazz up their English...

May 21st, 2022

21/5/2022

One of my admitted points of westie-resistance has to do with not enjoying digital maneuvering of photos. While I somehow actually produced a photographic history for publication at one time (Images of America: Amagansett, from Arcadia Publishers, good sample available on the publishers' site), I always find managing photos overwhelming. So I'm posting this photo just to remind myself how much joy one image can carry, and preserve.

Pricing Memory Quilts, part 2

18/5/2022

As mentioned in part 1, "The client can decide whether the quilt should be finished with batting, backing and yarn ties OR with a simple backing, no batting, OR with a simple binding, no backing at all. "
The advantage of a faced or bound coverlet is that it is lighter, and allows you to decide whether you might want to have the quilt machine- or hand-quilted at a later date.
In the meantime, you can use it year-round, and it's easy to store.
Facing means I join the patchwork 'top' to a backing sheet of plain fabric, which finishes the edges.
Binding means a long strip of fabric sewn all around the edges, with the seams of the patchwork are visible on the back.

[Note: The reason I don't machine quilt when I can help it: it is much less satisfactory than hand quilting. Without very special equipment the possibilities for bunching-up and other little disasters are countless, and machine stitches NEVER give the warm 'feel' of those made by human hands.
The reason I wish I could hand-quilt certain quilts, but don't: I'm 71, quilting needles are tiny and sitting for long stretches can make my bones cranky. But also, the time involved for just basic quilting is a minimum 20-30 hours per quilt, which makes for a fairly unacceptable price.]

link to the 'EZ' memory quilts...

18/5/2022

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.193021217095&type=3

Still learning how to maneuver on my website (after all these years!); the above link may not be automatic but it WILL get you to the Facebook album (you may need to cut/paste til I get savvier) where you can see other possibilities, beyond a simple grid of squares.
I can also note that these two (each smaller than 2m square, but still good-sized) quilts =- and a small pillow -- used two BIG plastic bags full of shirts! Here are the two in progress, the pillow perched atop the more 'abstract' design.

Pricing Memory Quilts, part 1

18/5/2022

It's been awhile since time-constraints let me accept a commission for a memory quilt, and I realized today that between 'the aging process' and pandemic glitches, a lot has changed in my studio, and my working methods. I found this etsy seller
www.etsy.com/listing/174469858/custom-memorial-quilt-memory-quilt?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=memorial+quilt&ref=sr_gallery-1-6
to use as a pricing reference point, but I need to specify a few things for my own potential clients, here in Guadalajara.
For quilts that memorialize a beloved father, for example with a design made from his shirts for example, it will of course depend upon the total number of shirts provided, but the maximum size will be 2 meters square. The simplest design at that size will be around 64-25cm squares, artfully arranged. The client can decide whether the quilt should be finished with batting, backing and yarn ties OR with a simple backing, no batting, OR with a simple binding, not even any backing.
This is what 'batting, backing and yarn ties' looks like -- you can see how (depending on the color yarn) the ties become an organic-looking part of the quilt. This type is very warm and comfortable, puffier than a quilted-quilt.

I'm working on a post about prices for commissioned quilts, but first I wanted to mention...

18/5/2022

...that over these two years I've learned a lot about quilts' usefulness in my own home, and some of the simple things that make them so. Thanks to having found a bunch of elegant upholstery sample books that'd been tossed out, I've made a few dense, but not too heavy 'coverlets' -- one of which we use on the bed, for a surprising amount of warmth in the winter-time, 'surprising' because 'coverlet' means it has no filler, nor is it quilted, either by hand or machine. It's simply either faced with a sheet of plain fabric, or bound with narrow cloth tape to keep edges from raveling.
I use another for effectively blocking street noise in my office. Colorful decor AND functionality.

Update: until 31 May'22, several of the quilts in stock, hand-quilted, available @$3000pesos so they can brighten up another home. This one, 'Virgen', 70"/178cm square. Check categories above to see if there's another one you'd like.

20/5/2021

Update: 'Luna', 44"/108cm square, $2000 pesos thru 31 May '22.

16/5/2021