Welcome to Saginaw Street Quilt Company —
Quilt Designs by Karla Alexander
NEW...NEW...NEW...CHECK OUT MY "NEW PATTERNS" and DESIGNS IN THE STORE AND GALLERY!!
NEW PATTERNS NOW AVAILABLE
COLOR SHUFFLE! AVAILABLE NOW! "Color Shuffle!" A new book especially designed with an abundance of fresh colors, fabrics and innovative construction techniques! You'll have your hands on the steering wheel when you choose a quilt from this book. Rather than repeating and duplicating the exact designs from project to project, you'll quickly find a multitude of options that you can choose from. Make your quilt unique to you! It's so much fun when YOU get to decide if you want to use twenty fabrics rather than ten... maybe you want to add a wiggle or a crooked line here or there... it's up to you!
While I know and understand the comfort of making "canned quilts" -- the ones where the carefully chosen fabrics, precision cutting, and perfect seam allowance are a must, I am drawn to the liberating possibilities of creating quilts without any predetermined outcome. I love the diverse, unique and fabulous blocks that are created as a result and the opportunity provided once it's time to lay all the blocks out. In addition to the freedom this process creates is the benefit of using lots and lots of different fabrics. Yeah! Also, every quilt is an original as there are no duplicates using this method. Some quilts will often reflect your mood for the day with quiet and straight cuts or wild and whacky ones and, of course, the style and colors of the fabric plays a role as well.
For more information on my current books and my line of patterns, which you can buy at your favorite store or directly from me online, please visit my Store page. To see where I'll be teaching next, please visit my Teaching Schedule page. If you have any questions, you're welcome to contact me.
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Check out my quilt, Passion Fruit, that is being featured in the March 2010 issue of Quick Quilts.