In January, 2023 I was thrilled to be honored as a featured quilter in Quiltfolk's issue #25, Rhode Island! My articles, quilt designs, and my quilting have also been published in books, magazines and been on television and published on a DVD.
I have been long arming since 1999 have won numerous regional, national, and international awards for quilting my own quilts and those of my customers. I hope you find my website to be informational, inspiring, and fun. Just in case sailboats aren't your thing.I'm Pat Harrison and I keep myself busy being a long-arm quilter, lecturer and workshop teacher, quilt designer, and a quilt judge certified by the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges.Liz Meimann helped me out with a really quick turnaround time for longarm quilting.ĭid I just pique your curiosity about the other two quilts? I'll share those soon! I had two other quilts to make for them on the same deadline, so I didn't have time to quilt them myself. I didn't have much time to make this before they needed to be at the Island Batik warehouse so they could take the photo above for the catalog. Sailing School by Canuck Quilter Designs. I promise it's coming, though! It's about 3/4 ready, so how much longer could it possibly take? Now I've jinxed it! It's much later than anticipated, as other priorities popped up, as they often do. (Spoiler alert: you can't trim with the diagonal running directly through the corners, or you'll end up wit cut off points.) I do have a tutorial in the works. In the end, I made them oversized, and added templates to trim them properly. I wanted to be able to make it without paper piecing and without specialty tools. I learned all about half rectangle triangles to design this sailboat block. that pop of red is great too!Ĭloseup of Sailing School by Canuck Quilter Designs I love that the collection has a range of blues, as well as prints in different scales to add visual interest. Island Batik sent me advance sampling to make the quilt for their Spring/Summer 2021 catalog. I had to wait a whole year to share this finish, until the Island Batik Sail Away collection I used was available in stores. I am so happy to finally share this finish, because it's one of my favourite recent quilts. I missed the sea and I missed family, and though I wasn't dwelling on that, my mind still created this: Maybe that influenced my designing that fall. I had the plane reservations all set, but we all know what happened with 2020! The trip was cancelled, and I didn't get to see family or the shore. The summer of 2020 was supposed to take me back to Nova Scotia for a visit. Since moving to Iowa, I have learned to appreciate a different kind of natural beauty, but I still miss the waves. There's nothing like the smell of the ocean and the sound of the waves breaking on the shore. I spent my teens and early adulthood in Nova Scotia, never too far from the ocean.
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