George Siciliano's miniature quilts use neon hues against a black background, his minuscule scraps arranged in complex variations of the basic Log Cabin pattern.
At a December meeting of Westchester children's librarians at the Ardsley Public Library, where the miniature quilts that illustrated "Stand for Children" are displayed, Ms. Yorinks discussed her love of fabrics.
The show at the Tsongas Arena, which will include an auction of miniature quilts and sales of fabric and accessories, will be open today and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Use up all the scraps you created from winter sewing projects to make miniature quilts and other small patchwork projects.
Val Curwen wove a miniscule picnic basket for the dolls and Tracy Dowling sewed a miniature patchwork quilt from one square inch of fabric.
Although most samplers have a degree of organization, a few are almost wildly notational in their contrasts of motifs or different stitches (including queen, rice, satin, scotch, eyelet, buttonhole); they might almost be miniature patchwork quilts or contemporary paintings by Amy Sillman.
The jigsaw is, in its miniature way, a version of a quilting bee or a barn-raising, though we may have certain feelings about the fact that neither a quilt nor a barn results.
The pieces range from a large, boldly graphic quilt that uses a strip-piecing technique, by Nancy Crow of Baltimore, Ohio, to a selection of seven miniatures, measured only in inches, that display all of the accuracy and attention to detail normally found in quilts many times their size.
MILLVILLE "Quilts in the Village," quilt show.
