Pam's Quilted Memories

Pam's Quilted Memories

Art Quilts

What is art? Art is the deliberate creation of sensation, created by a person, on purpose, to invoke a response. An art quilt possesses the basic structural characteristics of a quilt. It is mostly fabric with at least two layers - a top or facing layer and a backing layer. The face layer can be made using one or several techniques: pieced, appliqué, whole cloth, stitched or fused to the foundation. The face and backing are held together with hand, machine stitching or other methods that are evenly distributed throughout the quilt surface. Paints, beads, yarns and lace are only a few of the elements that can be added to achieve texture.

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Spring Storm

Spring Storm

25 x 27

Created from a pattern by Toni Whitney for Bigfork Bay Cotton Company. It was made for my best friend in Oregon who loves horses. The technique uses fused appliqué with custom quilting to finish.

Spring Storm

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Octopus' Garden

Octopus' Garden

34 x 40

While traveling a few years ago, an interesting carpet design caught my eye as an idea for an "art quilt". After piecing the quilt, I happened to look at it from the side and thought it looked like waves. From there it grew almost on its own. With so many levels and embellishments, the viewer finds something new to look at each time.

Octopus' Garden

Octopus' Garden

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Hands Around The World Quilt

Hands Around The World

For this quilt, blocks of white fabric were stabilized & a generic person was drawn on the fabric. The blocks were sent to a grad school where the children colored them & signed their names. After receiving them back, I created a wall hanging which was auctioned by the school for programs for the children. I was pleased to learn it raised $500 for the cause.

Hands Around The World Quilt

Hands Around The World Quilt Hands Around The World Quilt

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Phoenix Quilt

Phoenix

42 x 43

This quilt was inspired by a drawing from the web. After some design changes, a miniature Lone Star was pieced and centered over the hand appliquéd flowers, leaves and ribbons. A Celtic inspired border incorporates sections of Lone Star and is custom quilted.

Phoenix Quilt

Phoenix Quilt

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My Space Quilt Planets In Orbit Quilt
My Space, No Dot Com
I originally designed this quilt in 2006 for a customer & named it simply "The Circle Quilt." In 2009 I remade the quilt for a Guild Challenge, incorporating more piecing & appliqué techniques. It measures 62x73. It is densely quilted on the background to allow the planets & orbits to "float" on the quilt.
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Art Quilt

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Tropical Salsa Quilt

Tropical Salsa

This quilt was made using a modified Pickle Dish pattern. I used tropical colored batiks trying to caputre the sun's rays, the palm trees and oranges. It won first place in the 2009 Southwest Florida Quilt Festival. It also won Judges Recognition at the 2008 Jacksonville, FL Quilt Festival.

Tropical Salsa Quilt

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Last Bee Buzzin Quilt

2 AM & The Last Bee Buzzin

This quilt took on a life of its own. It started out as an appliqué block but I changed it to be a whole cloth. The elements are hand appliquéd on black fabric. It was quilted with white and black variegated thread to achieve a lacy look. The edge was faced and edged with interwoven bias strips to stand out on edge from the quilt. It won 2nd place in the 2009 Southwest Florida Quilt Festival.

Last Bee Buzzin Quilt

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Fairy Quilt

Fairy Tales & Dragon Tails

This quilt was a gift to our son and daughter in law. She wanted fairies and dragons and loved the navy blue batik. Stencils were used for the designs and inked onto the light blue fabric. It is king size & was quilted using a wrought iron design.

Dragon Quilt

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Kokopelli Print

Kokopelli Blues

This quilt was made for friends who love Kokopelli. The fabric is imprinted with Kokopelli and it was quilted using a Kokopelli design.

Kokopelli Print

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Shy Lady Quilt

Shy Lady

Shy Lady Quilt

This quilt was made for the 2008 Hoffman Challenge. The peacock became the feathers for the vintage look hat. Her eyelid was made from another part of fabric. The flowers were fused and made to stand away from the quilt. Real peacock feathers were added to embellish the birds body. It was recently sold & she now lives in New Jersey.

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Dog Quilt

A Dog & His Clown

This quilt was made in 2008 for a "Quilt Guild Challenge." The challenge fabric was used for the clown's shirt. The quilt also had to incorporate 21 different textures. This quilt was donated to the Shriners Hospital For Children in Tampa.

Clown Quilt

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Dolphins

36 x 45
Pam made this quilt from a pattern in a magazine and donated it to the guilds Kinder Quilt Program for school children.

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Window of Opportunity

37 x 31
Pam's first "Art" quilt. It received 3rd Place in the Pictorial or Landscape division.

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My Hearts Desire

42 x 58
This is a Challenge Quilt. The challenge was to use a quarter yard of the focus fabric in a quilt. The fabric for this challenge is the large flowers at the bottom of the quilt. Pam also used it for the girls leis, headdresses and also for the "pods" in the tree.

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Fall

34 x 34
Simple fall wall hanging using the colors of autumn.

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Circle Quilt

49 x 60
This was a commission quilt. The husband wanted a wall hanging for his wife's birthday. His only criteria besides the size was, he wanted "circles," thus, the Circle Quilt.

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Zebras

36 x 38
Paper pieced wall hanging. No, it is not printed fabric. Each color change is a stitched piece of fabric.

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Garden Kaleidoscope

39 x 39
Another Challenge contest. This time the fabric was the ribbon pattern on the outside border and in the blocks.

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Pumpkins

40 x 40
This pattern is from the Stack and Whack by Bethany Reynolds. Notice the shiny spider webs on the background fabric.

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You Are What You Eat

38 x 34
Beautiful butterfly on a fabric of soft pastels.

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Balance

72 x 88
The beauty of black & white.

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Contact Pam Peck at Pam's Quilted Memories to design a custom quilt for you or a loved one. You can be sure - it will be one-of-a-kind!

Pam's Quilted Memories

Pam's Quilted Memories

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