Holly Knott - Contemporary art quilter, website designer and author
Holly Knott - Contemporary art quilter, website designer and author
Architectural Quilts - City scenes, closeups of architectural elements on buildings such as windows and doors, columns, reflections, stained glass, peeling paint and more... All things that catch my eye when I'm wandering about photographing.
Old Pine St. Presbyterian 18″ x 24″ Machine applique, fused applique, free-motion quilting, fabric paints. This particular church in Society Hill, Philadelphia, has the prettiest pale yellow facade that glows at sunset. Many london plane/sycamore trees line the colonial graveyard, and their dappled bark frequently matches the dappled light that filters through their leaves onto […]
New Hope, PA, Reflections 18″ x 28″ Machine appliqued, fused applique, free-motion quilting, fabric paints. – Juried into Tactile Architecture at Int’l Quilt Festival 2003. – Exhibited at IQF Houston, 2003, IQF Chicago, 2004 and QuiltMarket, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004. Based on a photograph I took of a New Hope, PA colonial house’s window box full […]
Floral Reflections 18″ x 24″ Machine applique, fused applique, free-motion quilting, tulle. Second in a series based on old windows with reflections and flower boxes.
Begonias and Ivy 32″ x 27.5″ Cotton batiks, raw-edge applique, free-motion quilting. – Juried into Tactile Architecture, Houston, TX (and other venues), 2004. – Juried into NJ State Quilt Guild Show, NJ, 2004. What caught my eye in this scene were the architectural elements surrounding the door, the old stucco facade, the old raised panel […]
Philadelphia at Dusk, I 25″ x 20″ Hand-painted sky, machine appliqued and pieced, fused applique, free-motion quilting. A wrong turn led me to the Schuylkill Expressway at rush hour one cold January afternoon (not where I wanted to be at that time of day!), but I continued along toward Center City and witnessed an incredible […]
Philadelphia at Dusk, 2 39″ x 29.5″ Hand-painted sky, machine appliqued and pieced, fused applique, free-motion quilting. The second in a series, larger than Philadelphia at Dusk 1, and with a slightly different building layout. A wrong turn led me to the Schuylkill Expressway at rush hour one cold January afternoon (not where I wanted […]
Liberty One and Liberty Two 16″ x 16″ Photograph printed on fabric, machine appliqued, free-motion quilting, fabric paints. An abstract scene in a series using a combination of a photograph I took in center city Philadelphia of skyscrapers “Liberty One” and “Liberty Two” rising up from the smaller buildings around them, and some hand-painted, hand-stamped […]
Liberty One and Liberty Two, 2 24″ x 17″ Photograph printed on fabric, machine appliqued, free-motion quilting, fabric paints. An abstract city scene quilt in a series using a combination of a photograph I took in center city Philadelphia in 2004 of skyscrapers “Liberty One” and “Liberty Two” rising up from the smaller buildings around […]
St. John’s Abbey Church 39″ x 24″ Cotton batiks, some hand-painted cottons, paper-pieced hexagons, machine applique, free-motion quilting. – in a private collection – – Exhibited in St. John’s Abbey, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN – Published on front cover of St. John’s U. alumni journal, “Conversatio,” 2004. Made for my sister, Danielle, for Christmas, […]
