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2006-2010

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Minay’s Quilts, 2006 to the End of the Decade

There’s still a wide mixture here, partly because I began finishing some of the quilt tops I assembled eight to ten years ago, and because I was experimenting with different color palettes and creating new quilts, some of which were designed with the idea of marketing them as patterns.

This isn’t everything, so we may update these galleries periodically, and there are still (literally) hundreds of unquilted tops for me to work on, plus new quilts to design. We didn’t photograph many of those, so it may be a while, but galleries for the second decade of the century will follow.

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2000 to 2005

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Minay’s Quilts, First Five Years of the Century

This period was very productive for me. I finally felt like I was beginning to hit my stride as a quilter. I’m still experimenting, though, so there’s a wide range of styles. Almost everything from this period is original.

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1994 to 1999

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Minay’s Quilts, The Second Stage

I continued experimenting, trying to create some things that were unique, but still sticking to the feel I had for the traditional. I started experimenting with three-dimensional quilts about this time too. Most of the quilts in this section are original designs, but a few (like Cowboy Dan) were taken from patterns. Many of the quilts in this section were the result of scrap trades at a quilt guild I belonged to then. I still have many unquilted tops left from the block trades that I will hopefully finish someday. When pigs fly, maybe!

The pictures here were all taken with better cameras. They were still saved in low resolutions (72 dpi) to load faster on the web, so they probably aren’t suitable for printing, but fine for computer monitors and phone screens.

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1985 to 1993

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Minay’s Quilts, The Early Stuff

These were the very first quilts I did. Some were based on existing patterns, but I also started creating my own designs before too long. I experimented with a stencil technique called theorem painting, and several of the examples in this gallery reflect that. Many of the pictures of the early quilts were scanned from very small pre-digital photographs, so forgive the poor quality of a few of the pictures in the first gallery. Sorry.

Most (but not all) of the shots in these galleries (there are several more after this one) show a full view of a quilt followed by a detailed view. What’s a quilt without a good look at the stitching, right?  All of these quilts at this point were machine pieced (except for any applique, of course), and were hand quilted. I didn’t start machine quilting until a decade or more into the 21st Century.

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