Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Quilters meet and Greet


Hello Everyone, 
I am thrilled to be participating in Quilter's Meet & Greet, hosted by Benita Skinner of https://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.com/. There will be a chance to win the amazing Great Grand prize package. 
For those of you who are here for the first time, here is a little bit about how I started my quilting journey:
 I am a self-taught seamstress, mostly did sewing out of necessity. I have sewn pillow covers and did a lot of alterations for Mom. I've also sewn baby clothes and pajamas for my children when they were little. Started sewing some of my garments myself, especially Indian clothing like Salwar kameez and saree blouse. Wanting to improve sewing skills, I took Sewing Certification classes with the thread making company “Sulky” and was introduced to quilting and adding embellishments on a practical level.  By volunteering at Ronald McDonald House quilting group, I learned more about quilting and fell in love with the whole process. After taking a couple of quilting classes online at Craftsy, I started quilting traditionally and as an art-form.  I love the simplicity of modern quilts, intricacy of traditional quilt and the creativity of art quilts. I get my inspiration from nature, fellow quilters and quilting blogs and keep my  passion alive by attending a local monthly quilting group called the “Creative Saturday." Here are a few of my favorites.


Pansy - My first original art quilt

This Pansy quilt is one of my favorite quilt. It is the first quilt I designed it from a photo I took. I had such fun making this quilt.
Hibiscus


Black and White quilt

Sampler Quilt



















































Please visit the other participating blogs and increase your chance of winning at each blog.
The Quilter's Meet and Greet runs till September 30.




67 comments:

  1. I LOVE your art quilts. Thanks for sharing them.

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    1. Thank you Vicki. Sharing gives as much fun as making them.

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  2. Those are beautiful! Love the Black and white quilt - its so angley! Nice to meet yoU!

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  3. Your art quilts are lovely. I was lucky enough to take a couple of the sulky educators courses and the knowledge is invaluable.

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  4. I am so glad to make your acquaintance. Your work is beautiful!!! Love the subtle shades of red in Hibiscus.

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  5. I love your adventurous side and you've reached to to create some beautiful quilts. You really are creative and your quilts speak well for you.

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  6. Wonderful quilts. I love the Hibiscus. It is stunning!

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  7. I enjoyed reading your blog. All of your quilts are lovely, but the Hibiscus quilt is absolutely amazing.

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  8. Your pansy piece is wonderful -- I love artsy quilts!! :)

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  9. Nice to meet you Jereena! You're quilts all beautiful - I'm very impressed!

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  10. Your floral quilts are beautiful! I'm happy to get to know you through the M&G.

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  11. I love love flowers! I love to applique, they are beautiful!

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  12. Your flower quilts are marvelous, Jereena.
    Thanks for being part of the Quilters Meet & Greet! <3

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    1. Thank you so much for inviting me to participate and guiding along the way to get this post up and running. Finally got the graphics linked up too, whew! I am liking all this traffic here too😊

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  13. Love your flowers. Amazing work.

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  14. I am in love with your Pansy quilt! Stunning work!

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  15. Absolutely gorgeous us your pansy quilt! Ty for sharing it with us.

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  16. Love your quilts! Fun to see the journeys each quilter has taken into the world of quilting!

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  17. Beautiful quilts and your flowers are gorgeous...thanks for sharing!

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  18. Beautiful, the flowers are so lovely. Thank you for sharing!

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  19. I, too, love participating in my local quilting groups! Like you, I have donated quilts to Ronald McDonald House. My quilt group from many years ago chose is for their charity. SEW nice to meet you through Benita's event!

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  20. It was nice to find your blog on the Meet & Greet. Your art quilts are absolutely beautiful!

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  21. Your Hibiscus quilt is gorgeous!! I am in awe of those who can creat art quilts. Such beauty!

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  22. Beautiful work you do. The quilts are gorgeous.

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  23. We seem to like a lot of the same things! Your art quilts are stunning. Visiting from the Meet and Greet.

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  24. Your flowers are just amazing. You have a knack for shading with fabric!

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  25. Love the art quilt!

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  26. Great looking quilts. I, too, love the pansy - such a glorious flower.

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  27. Your Hibiscus quilt looks so life-like! Truly amazing.

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  28. Oh my goodness, you are a master with this fabulous flowers. Absolutely stunning!

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  29. Hi Jereena! Beautiful quilts, I love your flowers, and a special love for the hibiscus ;)

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  30. Your Pansy quilt is beautiful as well as the Hibiscus--beautiful colors!
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  31. Your Hibiscus quilt makes my heart sing! Stopping by from the Meet and Greet ~ nice to meet you!

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  32. You have quilted so many different styles .. just love them all!

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  33. Nice to meet you! Your quilts are beautiful!

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  34. Love the flower art quilts...such vibrant colors....

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  35. Your work is Amazing!! The details on the flowers make them look so real..my faveorite is the Hibiscus...Wowie!!

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  36. Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing.

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  37. Hi Jareena, I really love your art quilts.

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  38. hi there and just wandering if you post recipes on your blog? I love your flower quilts. take care and keep quilting!

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    1. Hi Caroline, Thank you for visiting. My friends are always asking for recipes and I started the blog thinking of posting recipes too. When I cook I always forget to take pictures to post, hence recipes never get posted. So far there is only one recipe posted, without any pictures, of course. Click the recipe tab to check out the recipe.

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  39. I love your self taught Quilting journey, Craftsy is such a great platform to learn new things!

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    1. Thanks for visiting from another continent. Yes, Craftsy is a wonderful to attend classes in your own time and when you can't attend physically.

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  40. Your art quilts are just gorgeous. Nice to meet you.

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  41. I love your Sampler quilt. I am more into patchwork and applique, but your quilts are beautiful.

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    1. Thanks for visiting! It's one of my favorite quilts.

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  42. Wow - love your flower quilts!! I have a blog link up for art quilters and I hope you'll join us - its called Off the Wall Friday and you can link up any time!

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    1. Thank you Nina! Nice to meet you here. I will try to link up on Off the Wall Friday. You blog looks very interesting and very informative. Thanks for visiting.

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  43. Nice work! Love the simplicity of the black and white quilt!

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  44. Your art quilts are stunning! Nice job. Thanks for sharing about your start in quilting. Nice to meet you :)

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  45. Very nice projects, Jereena. I especially like Petal Parade.

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  46. Your Pansy is fabulous, did you print a photo onto fabric for the Hibiscus? Lovely to meet another quilter in another country too.

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    1. No, It's all fabric and thread with a little bit of shading with setacolor transparent paint. I did use an enlarged photo as reference.

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  47. I'm so glad you found your way into quilting. You are very skilled at art quilts. The realism is austounding. It's neat that you embrace all the branches of quilting, like I do.

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  48. Oh my goodness - that hibiscus quilt is incredible!! I enjoyed my visit - thank you!

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  49. Hi Jereena! It is a pleasure to read your introduction to us, and to meet you. It looks like you have a real talent for design, color placement and selecting fabrics. Not everyone can! I really think your pansy and hibiscus quilts are beautiful. I didn't know you could volunteer for the Ronald McDonald House quilting group - I didn't even know it existed. I will have to check into that, as my sister received a lot of comfort from then when my nephew was going through treatments. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  50. Beautiful quilts! I especially love the sampler

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  51. While pansies are one of my favorite flowers, that hibiscus quilt is just stunning.

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  52. Nice to meet you - and lovely to see your quilts. I like how you describe your quilting likes - simplicity of..intricacy of..creativity of.. :-)

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