Barbara Harrison's Silk Fan Quilt

This gorgeous silk quilt is the creation of my friend Barbara Harrison of Doylestown, PA. I wish you could see this quilt in person. The colors are so vibrant, and the quilt looks different as the light changes. She used some plaid silks too. I love the pointy gold border. Nice job, Barbara!

Barbara is an accomplished artist and a frequent lecturer and encourager of other artists. She certainly has inspired me.

Barbara's Selvage Layout

During a recent meeting of the Charm Girls in Doylestown, PA at the home of Barbara Harrison, I spied this arrangement in her quilt studio (which is appropriately called "The Cave of Wonders"). She is working on a stunning quilt, and while the blocks are still on the design wall, these selvages are already lining up in anticipation of becoming a bag to go with the quilt. I love that green and black fabric!

Charming Selvage Needle Case

This delightful Victorian style needle case was made by my friend Barbara Harrison of Doylestown, PA. It's reversible; with her favorite colors, raspberry and acid green cheater crazy cloth on one side, and selvages on the other. I like the tiny pink rick-rack and the little flower shaped buttons. This will also serve as a Christmas tree ornament for a Victorian themed tree at the Pearl S. Buck museum.

Fabulous Purses by Barbara Harrison

Take a look at these fabulous purses made by my friend Barbara Harrison! She made the one in the top photo as a souvenir of a magnificent quilt that she just finished. The purse in the bottom photo has a cheerful stripe of yellow rick-rack. Nice job, Barbara!

Selvage Tote with Good "Lines"

Barbara Harrison is a dear quilting friend of mine. Her art education supercharges her quilting and benefits all who share her joyful creative journey.

I love how she arranged the selvages at the base of this bag. She uses a lot of Provencal fabrics; you can see some here. The acid green (button) paired with raspberry fabrics is another of her trademarks.

Barbara and Helen Wolf co-founded the Charm Girls quilt group and they are active in the Doylestown, PA quilt scene. They have created some outstanding historical quilts for fundraising events.

Charm Girls Guild, Doylestown, PA

These are my dear quilting friends. If you are a hermit quilter like I was for years, consider joining or starting a small quilting group. We meet once a month to share what we are doing in our quilting, tell about discoveries of good quilt books, fabrics, methods, shows, etc., and have some good laughs. Then we have tea and goodies. This has been going on for about 4 years. Perfect every time:)

Left to right: Helen Wolf, Linda Eichhorn, Ellen Johnson, Stephanie Berk, and Barbara Harrison (seated). In this photo they are holding one of my selvage quilts, a large basket block set on point. This quilt is now in the collection of Mark Lipinski of Quilter's Home magazine. No, he didn't buy it at a Sotheby's auction, I gave it to him! (He wrote the hilarious foreword to my book "Quilts from the Selvage Edge.")