Gallery

Here is a sampling of my quilts and garments. Scroll down to see some of my Students Work.

Garden Delights
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.
Love is Spoken Here
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, October 2019.

Here is a photo of the original design, made in 2002:
Gran’s Garden border, Empty Spools seminars, Asilomar, CA

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.

Quilter’s Palette
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.

Patriot Jacket

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.

Eagle design was inspired by Elly Sienkiewicz’s Iconic Eagle. Used by permission.
The 1:10 Quilt

The 1:10 Quilt is a part of my Color Sense workshops. This sample was made for AQS iquilt online class, 2016. Quilted by Mark DeSerres, Singing Stitches, Chapel Hill, NC

I also make garments. This dress was created by knocking off a ready to wear dress from my closet.

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.

This is Modern Love, made by Julie Milne of Illinois.
This 1:10 quilt is from the Color Sense workshop. It was created by Pat Asher of North Carolina. Pat made twelve blocks using 12 different fabrics. She turned the blocks on-point, set them between variable nine-patch blocks, sashed with a wide sashing and nice-patch cornerstones. Pat’s quilt is sensational!
This 1:10 quilt from the Color Sense workshop was made by Julia Kolb of North Carolina. Julia wanted to go outside the box of the traditional 1:10 quilt by enlarging the quilt to make 25 blocks. Twenty-five fabrics = twenty-five blocks. All of the fabrics are batiks. Each of the blocks is set off with a 1/2″ border around it before the blocks were sashed. What a gorgeous variety of color and interest this quilt is!