Spring Fling (my SAQA 2011 Auction Piece) Much appreciation to everyone for enthusiastically welcoming me into the fold, with a special ...

Judy Wedemeyer, who has been a follower of our blog practically from the beginning, has now officially joined the Material Mavens.  She is a...

Friends and fellow Mavens, I hope you won't think me presumptuous, but I have some suggestions for how best to photograph our little qu...

Hi Alice - Thanks for the play-by-play photos of your beautiful quilt and the narrative... Outstanding :-) AND for all of you MMs who'v...

My little quilt's construction process was basically so simple, that I almost hesitate to write a process post.  But you know me--I lov...

Hello Barbara, I used about 5 layers of 100% polyester crystal sheers, in pinks, mauves, a pale green and gold. The metallic tape is from Gu...

Top:  Linda's, Alice's, Nedra's 2nd Row:  Rita's, Andrea's, Carolyn's 3rd Row:  Patti's, Judy S's, Petr...

Hi everyone! I just finished commenting on all your surprise quilts. They are all wonderful! I am sorry that I am late in posting. I hav...

My "Surprise" was inspired by a recent visit to my 3 year old Grandson, Logan, who lives in Florida. He and I would play the sur...

Surprise was an amazing theme and I spent too much time pondering which idea I was going to follow up on. I thought of the wicked witch of t...

Hi everyone I know you're all dying to know the theme for January 2012, so here goes...... "South" I can't tell you ...

My Surprise quilt is designed from thoughts of Jack in the Boxes, so the surprise is in the fold-out "box" and all the oth...

The surprise is not the subject of the quilt but in the technique, as I did things I've never done before. I dyed the background fabric,...

Surprise was a tough one for me. I thought of a lot of things that surprised me, but the one that really stood out was the day I arrived hom...

Patti's Surprise Quilt My quilt is a little random, and I am calling it Retirement - My life, it feels, has become unzipped. Feel like ...

When I learned that "surprise" was our theme, I immediately thought of an incident that happened several years...

silk-screened and fused This quilt depicts a shared surprise experience that I had with MM Carolyn last August. MM Linda, Carolyn & I w...

Rita's Seasonal Surprise Quilt      Until my mid 30's I lived in central Illinois and southern Indiana where the change of season ...

My inspiration was a birthday party given for me by my best friend when I was 15 which meant a lot to me, thus the girly color scheme. I a...

The day after our last “reveal,” I went for an early morning walk, despite a prediction of a high of 100+° that day.  Much to my astonishm...