Here is a sampling of my gallery of quilts and garments. Scroll down to see some of my Students Work.
60″ x 60″. 2016. Quilted by Suzan DeSerres of Singing Stitches, Chapel Hill, NC.
Made especially for John C. Campbell Folk School, 2017. Now available as a pattern and an online class.
It Started With Solidarity
60″ x 60″. 2025. Quilted by Jill Zollinger, Franklin, TN. Made by invitation, American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY — Threads of Liberty: Celebrating 250 Years of American Spirit with Quilts by AQS Instructors, Special Exhibit 2026.
This quilt was created using my Quilters Palette design (you can see the original and adapted quilt if you scroll down). The quilt was made with Cherrywood Hand-dyed fabrics, Aurifil 28, 50 and 80 weight threads. Utilizing mostly traditional State quilt blocks, I designed the Connecticut block, used the Iconic Eagle applique block designed by Elly Sienkiewicz (by permission), and a floral foundation pieced pattern (by Small Wonder – Peach Blossom).
There are 13 blocks in the quilt, representing the 13 original colonies. I’ll list them from top to bottom, left to right:
Top row: Maryland (Star Spangled Banner), Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Wheel), Virginia, (Virginia Reel).
Row 2: Georgia (Peach Blow), Connecticut (Robin – state bird, oak leaf, and mountain laurel).
Row 3: New Jersey (Violet Blossoms), CENTER: Elly Sienkiewicz’s Iconic Eagle, South Carolina (Carolina favorite).
Row 4: North Carolina (Carolina Lily), Delaware (Small Wonder Peach Blossom).
Bottom row: Masachusetts (Mayflower), Rhode Island, (Rhode Island), New Hampshire (New Hampshire).
The quilt is surrounded with New York Beauty inserts to give it the point and curve edge. The quilt is not squared off with a border.
My statement for the quilt: “Thirteen states come to life through timeless block and applique designs – each one a tribute to the courage and dedication to its poeple. The New York Beauty echoes the strength and resilience that shaped our nation, a journey through our history.”
I’m a tenth generation American. My paternal ancestors are from Germany, England, Wales, and Scotland. They landed in Virginia in 1713 and migrated through America to California, where I was born. Quite a legacy.
80″ x 60″. Quilted by Lori Kennedy, free motion on a BERNINA Q20.
Love is Spoken Here was created for my Aurifil thread collections: Love Is Spoken Here – Winterset and Love Is Spoken Here – Summerset.
Love Is Spoken Here was selected for the Aurifil: Education for the Love of Thread Quilt Exhibit at International Quilt Festival in Houston.
Here is a photo of the original design, made in 2002:
West of Baltimore
80″ x 80″ 2004. Blocks designed by Annie Smith. Corners and border designed by Aneda Phillips. Constructed by Aneda Phillips. Free motion quilting by Melodee Wade.
The West of Baltimore is the most well-known of all of my quilts. It was:
• featured in the Keepsake Quilting catalog for 2 1/2 years from 2007 – 2009
• selected to be in Elly Sienkiewicz’s Baltimore Album Revival II exhibit at Quilt Festival in Houston, 2009. It traveled around the world with that exhibit.
• A version West of Baltimore created by Janice Joyner/Lonestar Quilting and quilted by Janet Norton/Norton House Quilting was chosen to be the face of International Quilt Festival Houston 2021 and was the covergirl for the show program.
• West of Baltimore is available as a kit with all Cherrywood Hand-dyed fabrics and matching Aurifil 28 weight cotton threads. It will be available in my online Shop shortly.
Copyright 1998. Designed and created by Annie Smith. Quilted by Melody Wade. 54″ x 54″
The Quilters Palette is a sampler of techniques that includes three ways to machine applique, five ways to paper piece a block, y-seam construction, y-seam construction on steroids, pattern drafting and creating templates, 3-d piecing, and so much more.
It’s available only in instruction format, not in pattern format. I teach this quilt at John C. Campbell Folk School and by invitation as a week-long class. It’s available as an on-demand online class in my online store.
I produced my own online class for the Quilters Palette. Here is the sample that is used for the class, which has the best representation of the blocks taught in the class.
Copyright 2021. The Patriot Jacket was appliquéd onto pre-quilted fabric panels using a commercial pattern that is now out-of-print. The jacket was shared on Episode 2901 of Alex and Ricky’s The Quilt Show.
Here is a close-up view of the applique.
The 1:10 Quilt is a part of my Color Sense workshops. This sample was made for AQS iquilt online class, 2016. Quilted by Suzan DeSerres, Singing Stitches, Chapel Hill, NC
Photo taken by Kathleen Quirk Keyser in Old Salem, NC. 2021
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A note: I share my quilts in good faith, that they will not be copied, as they are all protected by copyright law. I will be looking for not what has changed, but what remains the same.
If you’re interested in or inspired by my quilts, the patterns are available in my online shop here, in my book The Ultimate Appliqué Guidebook, and by online class. To merely copy is a violation of copyright. If you’d like permission to use one of my quilt designs in competition or for a Guild fundraiser, please contact me at annie@anniesmith.net
STUDENT WORK
Here are some select quilts that were done by my students. Each of these quilters is truly amazing, in their creativity and their workmanship.
