Studio Stash Revealed | The Plaid Portico

Today we get to meet Terri Carpenter of The Quilted Fox. An active member of the East Bay Modern Quilters, Terri is also the go to person for those in the know around here for quilting to fit with their modern pieced quilts. And lucky for me, Terri designed an oh-so-cool quilt using Luna Lounge. It’s called Planetarius AND there is a marvelous tutorial. It had a fun time in the Andover Fabrics booth at Spring Quilt Market 2015. Speaking of tutorials, check out Terri’s tutorial for drawstring backpacks.

An initiator of round robin and charity quilts, Terri was also a key coordinator of the show “Amish:The Modern Muse” at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Her quilt ‘Flock of Starlings” (below) won first place in the piecing, small, category at QuiltCon 2013, and her quilt “Squared Repeat” is published in the book “Amish Quilts, The Adventure Continues” by Lynn Coolish. Currently doing “52 Weeks of Stitching” on her blog, she shares her sewing projects each week.

So that is a little bit about the humble, but pretty amazing and versatile Terri Carpenter of The Quilted Fox. Oh, and shhh….word has it she will be teaching in the future, probably with her popular I Spy the Alphabet Quilt–pattern in progress! You know here at The Plaid Portico we like to share the stories about the people we meet along the way, and I just want to say it is just about my favorite thing. Color me inspired.

Now, let’s have a look at Planetarius and all of Terri’s quilts that we mentioned plus more!

Planetarius by Terri Carpenter

Back of Planetarius by Terri Carpenter

I Spy the Alphabet by Terri Carpenter. Pattern coming soon!

Drawstring Backpacks By Terri Carpenter using “Tidal Lace” fabric by Kim Andersson

Fawn by Terri Carpenter

Diving Deeper by Terri Carpenter, using “Tidal Lace” fabric by Kim Andersson

Triple X by Terri Carpenter

Plus One More by Terri Carpenter

Flock of Starlings by Terri Carpenter. 1st Place Piecing, Small, category, QuiltCon 2013

Squared Repeat by Terri Carpenter. Published in “Amish Quilts – The Adventure Continues” by Lynn Coolish

Simple Math by Terri Carpenter

Hexi Star Mini by Terri Carpenter

Well, now that the boot is off my sewing foot, its all coming together as my Sew Steady insert for our home made sewing table arrived. And after Jack finished his workbench, (story on that below) this was his first project. Very cool, he cut out the insert, installed a shelf below to hold the sewing machine, and put it all together. We are psyched! Plus Daas’ dress form arrived this week. We’re ready to go!

Then there is the tale of Jack’s workbench. The workbench originally came from Jack’s Uncle Ed by way of a high school IA department liquidating its IA program (for those who never had the pleasure, schools used to offer Industrial Arts and Home Economics). Well, this workbench has been in storage for thirteen years, and after finally getting it here in the workshop (its heavy!) Jack became bothered by it not being level. Whether it was level thirteen years ago or not is a mystery, but he spent a massive amount of hours planing it and produced a massive amount of wood shavings doing it. Then he refinished it and voila! Can you see how beautiful it is!