Holly Knott - Contemporary art quilter, website designer and author
Holly Knott - Contemporary art quilter, website designer and author
Nature Quilts - Cow quilts, flowers/floral, birds, plants, wildlife, tree quilts, pet portrait quilts, even vegetables and food are included here in my nature art quilts category!
Sunflowers at Longwood Gardens – Published in the May 2005 issue of “Quilting Arts” magazine along with my article on painting with these watercolor crayons. Center panel is one piece of fabric, painted with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons and heatset. Machine pieced borders & free-motion quilted with rayon and metallic thread. Based on […]
Apple Blossoms in CNY (Central New York)
Autumn Leaves on my Porch Center panel is one piece of fabric, painted with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons and heatset. Machine pieced borders & free-motion quilted with rayon and metallic thread.
Purple Coneflowers in August – Published on the cover of the May 2005 issue of “Quilting Arts” magazine along with my article on painting with these watercolor crayons. Center panel is one piece of fabric, painted with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons and heatset. Machine pieced borders & free-motion quilted with rayon and metallic […]
A Study of Hosta 27″ x 44″ – Exhibited at Quilt Odyssey 2003, Gettysburg, PA Machine pieced & free-motion quilted, fused applique, Sulky thread. Hosta is one of my favorite plants. It loves shade, every few years you can double your collection by dividing them, and the various shades of green in the leaves of […]
Poppies 34″ x 14″ – “Poppies” won an Honorable Mention in the NJ State Quilt Guild 2004 show, Edison, NJ, in the Art Quilt/Innovative category. Hand-painted cotton (center piece and pink borders), machine pieced borders, free-motion quilting, beads. I was experimenting with fabric paints after taking a class taught by Michele Scott. The idea for […]
Nasturtiums 13″ x 18″ Center panel is one piece of fabric, painted with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons and heatset. Machine pieced borders & free-motion quilted with rayon and metallic thread. Inspired by an overflowing pot of nasturtiums in our garden, this painted quilt was actually quite simple and enjoyable to make. You could […]
Salsa! 16.5″ x 16″ Center panel is one piece of fabric, painted with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons and heatset. Machine pieced borders & free-motion quilted with rayon and metallic thread. Inspired by the summer bounty from our garden, I painted tomatoes, a jalapeno pepper and a red onion using the water-soluble crayons, then […]
Songbirds of Winter 40″ x 20″ Hand-painted cotton (birds and background), appliqued birds, free-motion quilted. – In a private collection – Since I normally prefer to work realistically, this was an attempt at an abstract quilt, based on the colors of the winter songbirds that frequent our feeders. I thought it would be interesting to […]
Snow Slices 36″ x 11.5″ Exhibited at: – Central NY Visual Artists Showcase at WCNY Studios, Syracuse, NY, 2005. – May Memorial Art Gallery, DeWitt, NY, 2006. -Published in “1000 Quilt Inspirations,” by Quarry Books, 2015. Machine appliqued with monofilament and a blind hem, fused applique, rayon thread. Snow quilts are challenging but if you […]
Birch Grove 2 24.5″ x 42″ – Exhibited at PNQE, Ft. Washington, PA, September 2005. – In the Del Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection – Hand-painted fabrics, commercial batik, machine pieced and free-motion quilted. After creating my “Birch Grove 1” tree quilt and instantly selling it to another art quilter friend of mine, I wanted to […]
Copper Beech Abstract 17″ x 21″ Background panels are hand-painted fabric (Setacolor). Photograph of a massive old copper beech tree, taken by the artist in Morristown, NJ, printed on fabric. I love trees of all kinds, but especially massive, ancient, old growth trees. Beeches grow slowly and they say if you plant one at a […]
Spring Storm 31″ x 33″ – Exhibited at Quilt Odyssey 2003 (Gettysburg, PA). Machine pieced & free-motion quilted. Inspired by the transformation of the colors in the woods behind our house in Bucks County, PA, that spring. As each storm approached, the atmosphere took on a pale green and gray glow, seemingly stripping the woods […]
The Lafayette Sycamore 28″ x 40″ – Juried into PNQE, Ft. Washington, PA, 2003 – Juried into The Art and Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, 2004 – Juried into Quilt Odyssey, Hershey, PA, 2004 – Juried into Int’l Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, 2004 Machine applique, fused applique, free-motion quilting, fabric paints. This […]
Reaching For Autumn 10″ x 40″ – Won Third Place in the Creative category in the annual Peddler’s Village Quilt Competition, January, 2003. Machine pieced & free-motion quilted, fused applique, monofilament and metallic threads. This art quilt began with a desire for fall to come quickly, as we were in the middle of yet another […]
Buttercup 20″ x 45″ Exhibited at: – PNQE, Ft. Washington, PA, September 2005 – Patchwork Plus, Skanelateles, NY, October 2005 – IQF, Houston, TX, October 2006 – Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA, February 2007 Raw edge applique, machine applique, eyes painted with textile paints, commercial cotton fabrics, tulle, free-motion quilting with rayon threads. Who doesn’t […]
Summer Breeze 17″ x 39″ Raw edge applique, machine applique, hand-dyed fabric, commercial cotton fabrics, free-motion quilting with rayon threads. Inspired by the colors of the hand-dyed fabric that I used in the “funky log cabin style” background for each leaf, I combined that fabric with some commercial cotton that reminded me of the view […]
Falling Leaves 16.5″ x 39″ Raw edge applique, machine applique, commercial cotton fabrics, free-motion quilting with rayon threads. Inspired by the leaves from our large, old maple trees, falling gently and constantly to the ground this past fall, as if it were snowing leaves, this tree quilt is both pieced and appliqued. Free motion quilting […]
Cold Stark Winter 32″ x 18″ Pieced and appliqued. Mounted on painted stretched black canvas. Based on the view out our western windows of the old maple trees that line our driveway. On some winter days, there’s color in the snow – lovely shades of blues, lavenders, even peach. But on other days when it’s […]
Quimby in the Sun 22″ x 22″ Hand-dyed shibori fabric, commercial cotton, tulle, raw edge applique, machine applique, eyes painted with textile paints, free-motion quilting with rayon threads. An image of my dear cat Quimby, who lived to the age of 19 1/2, enjoying the sun’s rays. This cat quilt hangs next to my husband’s […]
