The Garden Quilt: Recent Interpretations

My Garden Quilt

Jo Bunker

Auburn, Maine

Jo's very close version of Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden won Viewer's Choice at the Maine Quilt Show in 2010.

See Karen Kay Buckley's blogpost here for a detail

http://www.karenkaybuckley.com/weblog/?p=1010

 

At the bottom of the page is a very long URL for a snapshot album of this quilt.

Paradise in Kansas by Ilyse Moore

When Ilyse Moore and I were working on our Garden quilt pattern book (See The Garden Quilt over on the left) I made a file of photos of recent quilts inspired by the original Garden quilt pictured in Ruth Finley's 1929 book. Several of these quilts have been prize winners at recent shows.

Paradise Garden
Thuy Nguyen
Quilted by Naomi Gingerich
2005

Thuy's version is also very much like Rose Kretsinger's. She's reproduced several other Rose Kretsinger quilts. See more at her webpage:

http://thuy.tripod.com/Appliqued_Quilts.html

Around the Garden

By Kathryn Zimmer

Tucson, Arizona

Kathryn won a few prizes with this quilt based on The Garden, including a first for Wall Quilt at a 2009 NQA Show

Barbara W. Barber
Rhode Island

The Broderie Perse version of a Garden Quilt is on the cover of Barbara's 1997 book Broderie Perse from American Quilters Society. Barbara echoed the general construction of the Garden using the cut-out-chintz technique.

Rose Garden

Terri Doyle

Gilbert, Arizona

Terri also used Broderie Perse in her Rose Garden quilt, framing a basket of flowers with Rose Kretsinger's swag circle. The machine quilting, inspired by Rose Kretsinger's designs in spectacular. See a detail of Terri's quilt here:
http://www.mqinnovations.com/QS09_Winner_Photos/100-Traditional%20Lg/TL2ND-3.jpg

Some designers have taken the basic structure of the Garden quilt and gone off in new directions.

Birds & Roses

Pat Peters

Hurricane, Utah

Pat's medallion center includes some of the flowers but a different repeat.

The corner structure is similar. I think I took this photo of Pat's quilt with its red ribbon at the 2010 Road to California show.

See more of Pat's quilts here:

http://uvqg.blogspot.com/2010/07/may-meeting-pat-peters.html

Summer Garden

Northwest Quilters

Designed by June Bradley & Carol Schaefer

Hand applique and hand quilted

112" x 112"

The Northwest Quilters 2011 Raffle Quilt was Summer Garden designed by June Bradley and Carol Schaefer. The center is very much inspired by Kretsinger's Paradise Garden with a brand-new set and borders.

Read more about the quilt and the pattern here:

http://www.northwestquilters.org/shows/2011/2011.php#rafflequilt

More pictures
Jo Bunker's quilt
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