Looking for inspiration? You’ve found it! The Art of Quilts Postcard Collection—Architecture will give you lots of ideas with 30 postcards, each featuring a beautiful quilt. You can win a set for yourself – details for entering to win are at the end of this post.
Here are just a few of the cards that might inspire you to…
…create texture with the fabric paint:
"The Wall" by Mickey Lawler (l) ——— "Pont en Royans" by Lenore Crawford (r)
…create luminosity to make things glow:
"Petergate" by Elizabeth Barton
…create a style with fabric choices from warm to whimsical:
"Swans of Annecy" by Lenore Crawford (l) — "Red Legged Bird with a Tale to Tell" by Kathy York (r)
…create great designs from simple to complex:
"Sunny Side Up" by Katie Pasquini Masopust (t) — "Little Fish Big City" by Kathy York (b)
Share this inspiration with your quilting friends and get their creative juices flowing, too!
One lucky person will win a set of The Art of Quilts Postcard Collection—Architecture. To enter, leave a comment at the end of this post telling us what kind of architecture inspires you.
Comments will be closed at 6:00 pm PST on Sunday, October 9, 2011—the winner will be contacted via email and their name will be posted here on the blog next week.
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Congrats to Sonya, whose name was drawn at random from the comments on last week’s post! Sonya won a copy of Colorful Quilts for Fabric Lovers.
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LOVE architecture also!!!
Will share on FB & tweet, already have a blog badge, follow, etc.
Mmmm… now this is a delightful prize – another book that will go on my Christmas list if I don’t win!
I’m inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential architecture, Frank Gehry’s industrial and civic architecture and Franck & Lohsen’s ecclesiastical architecture.
All the “Frank”s, basically. :)
Lately I have been fascinated with the slowly disappearing architecture of old barns and buildings. There are so many beautiful old barns falling down in our area on abandoned farms. There are some great old houses near many of them too…
I have to agree with the above post. I am inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright too. Not only did I just visit one of his houses in Arizona, but my husband and I actually bought our current house because it was based on FLW’s principles.
This looks fantastic, I remember the cover quilt from an article in Quilting Arts magazine, and loved it then. I am also a lover of architechture, and will be adding this to my list of must have books.
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Several specific types inspire me. First, the island architecture in the Puerto Rico – love old San Juan and all the great colors and iron work. The Carnegie era libraries – for their nostalgia of how information was shared over a century ago. And, – so not a style, but front porches! I love front porches that really fit with their house and offer all sorts of possibilities, the scroll work, the columns, the wrap arounds.
I like bridges, classical buildings, modern buildings, arches, even log cabins.
Love the quilt on the cover of the box! I like all kinds of architecture. City architecture can be beautiful–and full of wonderful gridding–but I also love the look of Victorian architecture here in Bay Area!
Art Deco and Frank Lloyd Wright are my favorite favorites, but I love it all!
I like rustic – log cabins, post and beam structures – and that like. I would love to win this collection of postcards.
Nature’s architecture is my favorite….specifically rock formations. Either that or Times Square…..how’s that for contrasting likes!!
Elizabeth Barton has inspired me to look at industrial architecture.
I’m inspired by contextural architecture. It really needs to be of its place.
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I have long enjoyed Barton’s blog and her art.
I’m inspired by buildings. Tall ones with windows and smaller more quaint looking ones. I absolutely love line drawings and recently purchased the line drawings of New York.
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I love the old brownstone buildings in Boston. These postcards look like a fun source of inspiration. Thanks.
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I want to do postcards, just haven’t had a chance, love the idea of doing artwork that I can mail to friends. I love historical buildings, we have a lot of them in our area.
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Although I like many styles of Art Deco makes drool. I absolutely love it.
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I love very old buildings of all sorts
Looks wonderful!
Bridges & buildings, gates & doors and more.
Fabulous collection of quilts in the box. I have always loved architecture, and probably one of the reasons that I make so many house quilts. Imagine the possibilities, when you open the door!
I love interesting old houses and I live in a Victorian rectory!
I would love to win a set of these postcards
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Love the curves and flourishes in Art Nouveau.
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I love the European village look. The postcards are so beautiful I think I’d have a hard time parting with any!
No particular architectural style, but windows and doors always catch my eye.
I like sacred architecture whether it’s a cathedral. a temple, a synagogue or a mosque. I find them all inspiring.
The Prairie School intrigues me and makes me feel ‘at home’. Those postcards look fascinating! Thanks for a chance to win.
I love Tuscan inspired buildings, anything that looks like Venice. The old style nothing new and modern.
My current fav is modern architecture from the 1960′s — as in “A Single Man.”
Wow those pictures are amazing. Who wouldn’t love to have this collection so they can finger them and get ideas for that next art quilt. Probably over half of my quilts I have made are of houses, buildings, of various kinds. Since I am doing more art quilts now, these would be so inspiring.
I like the Georgian style a lot, but I also like the wonderful cathedrals you see in Europe. This book looks like it would be a great addition to a library and appears to be full of tons of inspiration! Thanks for a chance to win a copy.
Love all of Frank Lloyd Wright creations.
I took an art history course focusing on architecture. As we went through the different styles of architecture – Georgian, classical, Roman and Gothic, salt box houses, plantation style, modern – I thought this is my favorite, I want a house built in this style! The quilts you have presented remind me of the same feeling. I want an adobe house, a brownstone in the city, a house on the rocks in Maine. How can I choose just one? The quilts may be just the thing – I can have one of each in a quilts!
Any building, structure has artistic potential….it’s all in the eye of the beholder.
I just joined your you tube channel. I didn’t know anything about it and it looks very interesting. I will be sure and tell my quilting friends about it.
I signed up for your emails too. I look forward to receiving all inspiration from C&T.
I love architecture, especially gothic and roman!
Mother Nature is my favorite architect but if I had to choose a “human” I would have to say the architects of past years who built the big red barns. I say past years because they’re fading fast and we’re left with “pole sheds” now in their place. Love the old barns.
What a great set of cards! I love architecture of most types, though my favorites are almost opposites…the grand flourishes of the Victorian Era and the clean lines of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Such well-developed ideas. It is brave to make a quilt of the night. They are exquisite!
I love architecture and these cards are beautiful and inspiring. What a great giveaway!
The kind of architecture that inspires me is the kind that takes advantage of it’s surroundings, and is in harmony with it’s surroundings.
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I am inspired by architecture that is beautiful. I particularly like the older styles seen in downtown Chicago and other large cities.
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I have an architect in my family. I think that the propensity for the lies, the puzzle of architecture has come through to me in my NEED to cut and piece fabric. LOVE THESE CARDS.
LOVE these! I like bridges and southwest adobe buildings.
My personal favorites are buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Give me Prairie Style architecture! Marlene
My fav’s are old architecture. Quaint Greek villages in sun faded colors. Old Acadian homes. Faded doors in New Orleans French Quarter. Old barn doors. I would love to win the set of cards to add to my reference library!
Art Deco and Frank Lloyd Wright
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I would love to see all the old buildings left standing, that have been forgotten. Possibly even the old barns in the country.
Jo
I like Frank Lloyd Wright style modern architecture. Also Southwestern adobe and European towns hanging onto mountains.
I love old barns in the mddle of fields….especially the ones that are no longer used and have been left to nature to resolve their demise. I always think “if only they could talk”….what history they could tell us. Thanks for the opportunity to win this wonderful book! Connie in California
I love the old, tumbling down shacks and forgotten farm buildings. The way that their former right-angles make new shapes, and the way the light filters through the gaps. These buildings have much more character in the old age.
I love the 1920′s cottage, bungalow style and the huge victorian houses with all the little fussy details. Give me plain and simple or ornate and fancy!
Log cabins are cool!
Farmhouses!
“Swans of Annecy” card – this is home for me!
Any hundred year old building.
I love different types of architecture – old, well built historic buildings and sleek modern designs with simple lines.
Old barns and log cabins, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, and all periods Parisian are my favorites.
These cards are beautiful. My favorite architecture style is Southwest Territorial.
I love the old time beach cottages such as those in Nags Head, NC. They stand majestically upon the dunes with the ocean lapping at their feet.
Art Deco is my favorite! Used to work in Chrysler bldg which is on your cover. Worked on a Sunday and lucked into getting into the “Cloud Room” on the very top which took my breath away. Special viewing by Art Deco Society and I ‘ll never forget it. I LOVE your cards.
What a great collection. My favorite style is Arts and Crafts. Greene and Greene.
I love the Old buildings, like the flatiron in nyc, which have so much detail and character. I usually walk around with my head in the air in NYC, DC or other cities I visit. Budapest hungry is another example, as is santiago Spain
I love doorways. While traveling in Italy I took tons of pictures of interesting doorways and portals.
I am inspired by many types of archecture but what makes me feel comfortable is the old well built building with brick and wood. Something of the early 1900′s. Feels homey to me.
I love Frank Lloyd Wright. The postcards look wonderful.
I love the old victorians of New England….
Love the southwest style buildings and art designs.
I love old, falling-down barns and houses….history and mystery.
I love the clean lines of modern architecture and the intricacies of the many iron gates in New Orleans.
Yes I’m a luddite of sorts – no blog, no tweets, no website, no facebook. However, I do enjoy architectural quilts and the views that inspired them. Some day, I plan on making something using tall downtown buildings in major cities as my muse. And I’m also fascinated with some of the art deco buildings from the early 1900s.
This will definitely be on my wish-list for Christmas if I don’t win!
I’m inspired by the mix of old and modern, like you see in Downtown Boston, and especially by specific time of day, when the sun light (at sunset) makes the buildings turn pink-orange. That special light is most colourful in November… Don’t know why…
I’m inspired by modern city scapes as well as older homes. I especially like the Cotswold style as that was my last childhood home style.
LOVE the postcards!! :)
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I love very modern architecture (new and never before been seen) that has new sleek shape, only straight lines and very simple curves, nothing ornate and I love to watch them being built right here in my huge metropolitan city.
Bridges and arches are fasinating. I love the circular motion and flow that can be created with fabric.
I love Spanish/Moorish architecture.
I love the gothic architecture of the old cathedrals and Frank Lloyd Wright.
My favorite architecture is found in the Southwest USA whether it be brand new or ancient. Its curvy adobe forms bring peace and serenity to my heart.
I’ve always loved the clean lines of Frank Lloyd Wright.
love art deco. but enjoy much more
I’ve always been inspired by buildings — all those angles, corners & straight lines — perfect for quilt making! Not to mention the colors of bricks, concrete & roofing materials. Love it all!
Clean lines of Frank Lloyd Wright to sooth the perfectionist. Southwest rock ruins to bring out the creativity in me.
Why, log cabin, of course!
I love shiny stuff! The Bullring in Birmingham, Guggenheim Bilbao, even the Gherkin in London – metal, glass, stone, even polished wood, with a bit of glow and reflection…
I just wish we could get really nice feeling fabrics, that didn’t fray to bits, and looked as classy as the buildings, to make quilts that did the buildings justice! Maybe the cards could tell me how?
I’m fascinated by the architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
I love color the most. Buildings are great because of the way that light changes the color at the edges .
I love old barns that are about to fall down and old country churches and houses.
I love arts & craft, prairie and shaker. They have such clean lines and beauty that no extra features are needed.
I’m intrigued by cozy places, currently tiny houses. I love the idea of design with all of your favorite and needed things all around you, made possible by form fitting function. It also has to please the eye as well as be a statement by the designer and user.
I especially love sightseeing in cities with my son. He majored in landscape architechure in college and it’s always an eyeopening experience to tour various cities with him. I am also inspired by New England covered bridges. It saddens me that some of Vermont’s beloved historical covered bridges were lost by recent storms….
I love barns. I also am drawn to the architecture of Tuscany
I love architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright, but I do also love the Southwestern architecture. I would love to win and I am sure to be inspired.
Micki
Being a Chicago girl, Frank Lloyd Wright is a favorite for architecture. Details and macro photos are a great inspiration for texture and quilting motifs.
I live in a town full of victorian architecture, so I love all of these beautiful, and INSPIRING quilt cards!
Would love to own the inspiring quilt postcards. Fingers crossed.
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I am a fan of Arts and Craft architecture. Big William Morris fan!
I like the old architecture of Jerusalem with lots of arches.
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The shapes in Gothic Cathederals and Log Cabins are great in quilts.
Art Deco, for sure ….. Frank Lloyd Wright, also for sure ….. old barns, covered bridges ….. yes, even log cabins. Whatever’s old …..
nothing ultra-modern. Was I born at the wrong time?
Love old Victorians like the “Old Ladies” of San Francisco. How did people live in those tiny rooms? Where did they keep their quilt (and other art projects) staches?
Frank Lloyd Wright inspired designs are on my “to do” list at the moment. However, since my husband is of Italian heritage, I would really like to “build” him a quilt using scenes from either a local town or the countryside in the region of Italy that his family is originally from. I imagine that the colors would be beautiful!!! Well, not sure how that will work out but guess I had better start looking into some photos. Thanks for doing the giveaway. Very generous.
I just love buildings, old & new, for inspiration. Windows & doors in France have to be among my favourites.
I like architecture because people live in buildings, they also house our quilts, they are have a geometry that is often repeated, like patterns (and I have been told I am a pattern matcher). They can be as varied as the imagination stretches yet they have been made by man and therefore reflect the man. They are a basic and yet can be art, a place where lives happen, so fundamental to us all. We all want one.
I love old stone buildings like structures in Europe. Here in the US we seem to want to tear down and begin again instead of preserving the beauty of the past.
I’m inspired by tall buildings, old barns, and anything with arches and curves! Thanks for all your great publications!
Architecture that is layered with either color or design or both. That plays with light and is delightful. Gerhy, Wright. That uses natural materials of wood and stone. Art Nouveau. Old world architecture.
Art Deco is inspirational for me!
If it counts, I use natures architecture for most of my inspiration.
I enjoy unique angles, especially aerial views.
Skyscrapers,skyscrapers- New York, New York – it’s a hell of a town!
(So far from our Outback Australia)
I guess my favorite is Victorian. My other favorite’s are old barns and covered bridges. Even old “out houses”, old Martin Bird houses and chicken coops!
I’m inspired by Antoni Gaudi’s magnificent architecture in Barcelona and the stain glass windows have also been an element that has impressed me.
The mosaic incorporated in his structure have always facinated me. I have inspired to make a wallhanging of his structure in Barcelona. Yet to make.
There is an excitement which rises in me when I flip through books, magazines or watch TV and also on internet when I see the magnificent work of the architects from yester years. I am also enthrolled by the architecture on the Islands of Greece.
I am inspired and in awe of Ancient Chinese Art and temples
I am very much into nature’s architecture. The natural design that occurs when rocks fall, trees lean, pattern of leaf shadows is conducive to all forms of possibilities of building. Whether it be from wood, rocks, twigs or fabric, the designs are endless. Nature provides the palette, we become the builders.
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I love Southwestern architecture–something about it is so organic; it sits kindly, not abrasively jutting into its spot.
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I love old farm houses and welcoming homes with covered porches.
I love old farm buildings and bridges.
I love very modern architecture as well as many of the Victorian homes. Frank Lloyd Wright was an exceptional architect and I adore his designs.
The world of Art Deco and Victorian Architecture have been a favorite of mine forever!!! New York, San Francisco and all the small towns across the U.S. have saved a lot of wonderful buildings from destruction.
I always wanted to be an Architect, but instead I use fabric and Paper as my forms of “buildings.”
Love the old architecture of Europe, but am also wild about funking, modern work such as the Weismann Art Museum in Minneapolis. Love that building.
Love the arts & crafts style – all that wonderful william morris twining leaves and vines combined with elegant verticals in dark wood – yum!
After spending many summers at Chautauqua Institution, NY, I fell in love with the old Victorian lake houses. Their huge front porches were inviting no matter the weather. I have spent many hours sitting on my porch as thunderstorms rolled over the lake.
I love looking at art deco architecture.
When I made a visit to Rome, Italy I fell in love with the Roman architecture. Big bold coloumns and the churches were awesome!
I like old red brick buildings.
I love the archtecture of old French villages. You can learn so much about the people of a country through their old buildings.
I agree with Diane. The time worn architecture of old villages in France or Italy are endlessly fascinating.
What a wonderful prize! I love the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his legacy of fabulous homes. My daughter is an architect and it would be really great if this postcard collection could inspire her to join me in my love of quilting.
I love the Goldrush era architecture of the small town that I live just outside of … a mix of grandiose High Victorian and quirky miners’ cottages.
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What attracts me are warm colors in old houses in hillside cities and flat planes that define skyscrapers.
Architecture is my greatest inspiration for quilting. Next to quilting, my second hobby is photography. I spent time in Barcelona this summer and all of my pictures were of the amazing architecture. There is a quilt in there somewhere………….
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Love stone walls, stone buildings etc. Am making a Round Tower Quilt with beautiful stone fabric.
I always get inspired by tiles – you can often find me sketching tile patterns from public bathroons!
I find constant inspriation in all types of architecture–some days I seem tp prefer clean lines and other days am drawn to lots of frills and curves! So I’d have to say…eclectic!
I love gothic architecture – the flourishes, gargoryles, pillars, etc are so interesting to study. I always see something new.
I like art deco!!
I love ancient architecture where details were created by
hand. The beauty of the artists work is breathtaking and
timeless !!!
Frank Lloyd Wright has always intrigued me.
I love the Victoria Architectural designs & the Arts & Crafts designs. I love to go to muesums & see the beautiful/unusual designs they have outside the buildings.
Gothic to modern, love it all!
One of the best architects is nature and we copy her all the time in our art and building.
New England roof lines facinate me
The old buildings off in the middle of ‘nowhere’ that have been there for a hundred years – just imagine living in those a hundred and more years ago!
I love all these quilts… I get inspired by the tall towers and the electrical towers with all their crossing lines and angles! I would love the postcards…they are awesome and show great creativity!
I love houses–no, I love HOMES. From an ocean-facing house high on a cliff overlooking the Pacific outside Acapulco, to the authentic adobe in the high desert in northern New Mexico, to the new condo in a highrise near the center of Dallas, I love MY homes. They inspire me and fill me with joy. Homes contain LOVE.
I love the tall buildings and city scapes.
City sky lines but also houses with the added trees and gardens inspire me.
I am blown away by these quilts and can only hope that one day I can aspire to make something as creative as one of these quilts.
Thanks for sharing. Sherrie Ferdinand, Littleton, CO
Have always enjoyed seeing and visiting places and quilts which remind me of “Gallia en tres partes es” i.e. Roman arches, etc. as found in many parts of southern Europe as well as in windows found in some housing developments rather than common rectangular transoms.
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle. What a fascinating woman! One of her homes is up for sale currently on S St. in my hometown of Sacramento, CA.
I love the architecture of the cathedrals in Europe.
Love the work of Georgia O’Keeffe of NM . Her paintings would make beautiful quilts. I plan to one day use one of her paintings and create a quilt. Your quilts remind me of her and I love the warm colors that you incorporate into your work. I hope I win a set of postcards. Blessings
I find stone buildings inspiring. The kind with engraved letters and big blocks along the edges have great character to me.
Arts & Crafts style architecture “floats my boat”
I am inspired by architecture which blends beautifully with its surroundings and does not clash with the landscape.
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I love old Stavchurches. The wood carving and rose painting used to decorate them is awsome.
Adore all related to quilting and find this book/collection a true tribute to quilters who think outside the “box”
congrats on the lovely collection!
My fave? Modern glass-filled homes, being originally from New Canaan, Ct where Phillip Johnson has his “Glass House”
My favourite era is Art Deco so I hope there are some in the pack!!
Being a gemini, I oscillate between slick, cheeky new cityscapes and the crumbling french country houses – both types of architecture would inspire magnificent quilts :)
Visited the Biltmore House in Ashville, NC last weekend and was impressed by the landscape architecture as much, or more, than the house. Although the two complimented one another I felt that Olmtead, the landscape architect, considered and implimented a flawless setting for the house. While the house has remained unchanged for more than 100 years, the landscape, of course, has changed dramatically. Olmstead had to have great vision to predict the growth and changes in the scenery to have his vision remain successful through the years.
I love Art Deco with it’s clean lines. We have many examples in the Detroit area by wonderful architects. Another favorite is Frank Lloyd Wright whose studio in Chicago I was able to visit this past summer. The more I looked, the more detail I found.
It’s the striking looks of Art Deco that get me every time. I had a career as a Realtor, so it all really is a longtime love.
Kathi Pasquini’s Sunny Side Up inspires me because is reminds me of beautiful New Mexico. I think I’d like to try a similar quilt with a Mountain Range in the background. Beautiful quili Kathi.
I love architecture – my favorites have lots of details from contemporary stuctures with lots of fenestration and sharp angles to highly decorated older buildings with complex trims, moldings, gargoyles, arches, etc. I once did a piece inspired by a vertical garden – a building whose “skin” was planted in a lush and beautiful way.
I love skyscrapers and city landscapes, especially when light up at night.
I love to see the way our predecessors lived and the houses they lived in, as these houses aren’t always the ones that survive development.
I love the art deco architecture of Asheville, NC.
I love the Architecture where you can see lots of shapes and graphics merging into one – like an arch next to a high building. It is wonderful to be able to incorporate many techniques to merge the same images onto my quilts!
I love Victorian homes, especially the painted ladies. I’ll be checking out your youtube site!
We had the pleasure of visiting Italy last summer and seeing the beauty of the old coast with it’s new villas seemingly falling down the mountainside and it’s older villages clustered against the seaside. The colors are remarkable and still so vivid. Rome with it’s cobbled streets and architecture right out of the very beginning of our existence, should be a must see on anyone’s bucket list. Your beautiful scenes depicted in your cards are outstanding and encompass so many types of worldwide architecture. They would be a welcomed asset to anyone’s writing desk.
I get inspired by any heritage houses, Victorian or the wonderful Ontario cottages with their peaked gables full of gingerbread woodwork.
I like architecture that pushes the limits of creativity and design. Architectural design that is exceptionally executed making the building an elegant creation that is beguiling, irrespective of its age. My three favorite buildings are (1) Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City; (2) William Van Alen’s Chrysler Building in New York City; (3) Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
I love the medieval architecture of the old towns in Europe. They had only hand tools, yet they built cities that still stand.
I love the vertical patterns formed in big cities with tall buildings that then form shadows.
i love all types of architecture, old, new, contemporary, classic, victorian, rustic….mountains, streams, etc..you name it..all of it inspires me.
I like most Architecture :Cathedrals,Churches,Railway Bridges,Walls and many other items too. There is lots to see and inspire us all around!
I love Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and find it very inspirational.
The tradition of Williamsburg architective and the beauty of the English stone cottages both speak to me. I’m drawn to the longevity represented by both types of buildings.
Love all those buildings. I have started a collection of house quilts with a funky crooked houses on the fault quilt and am working on a house boat quilt
Pretty front doors and windows!
Frank Lloyd Wright has always fascinated me, especially his windows and built in furniture. Very elongated! I was “over the top” when I saw Falling Waters- WOW.
I really love the old Victorian Style, the gingerbread and all. This lends itself to whimsical buildings in quilts. I do find that the more I look at different styles of architecture, the more I appreciate them all for their uniqueness.
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I love modern architecture and modern quilts … and Frank Lloyd Wright. Thank you for the giveaway!
I find all kinds of architecture interesting from the Victorian “Painted Ladies” to Frank L.Wright’s Falling Water,but my favorites are the Arts and Crafts cottages.Thanks for this offer.
I find most kinds of architecture fascinating, and I think I would have been an architect if I’d realized that when I was choosing a career. I believe this interest in buildings is part of my intrigue with quilts. My favourite kind of architecture is probably Art Deco – I love the the smooth curves and the abstract nature. I like the Craftsman style as well. After saying that, I can also admit that Victorian and Edwardian architecture, with all the fussy details, is also a favourite and I enjoy looking for the little treasures that you miss if you don’t take the time to look for them. Architecture is one of the best reasons for visiting big cities.
Especially love arches!
I love city scapes- pictures of the skyline but also a row of houses.This giveaway is right up my alley!
I am inspired by the clean lines of Frank Lloyd Wright whose houses I first toured in Oak Park, Illinois. Additionally, the simple “Santa Fe” style of the Southwest, stucco, mostly plain, on the exterior with varied ceiling heights and open spaces inside attract me.
What a lovely set of postcards. I wouldn’t be able to send them; they’d make lovely decoration for my sewing corner. Thanks for the opportunity.
I think the linear lines of houses are so utilitarian, but the details of columns, pediments and corbels are what make a house more than just a box. While a subdivision of homes could be identical, the bricks, the shutters all individualize the homes. Compared to quilts or clothing, each quilter or seamstress adds her/his own details to individualize the project.
Construction becomes art.
I like architecture that reflects nature
My love of buildings – where did it come from…? It started with dolls’ houses, then little school house quilts. William Wordsworth’s poem “Upton Westminster Bridge” – “Ships, towers, domes theatres and temples lie, open unto the fields and to the sky” was a big influence – especially when I stood on Westminster Bridge in London for the first time myself. My first applique piece, made when I was around 18 (nearly 50 years ago!) was of oriental temples and domes in pinks and purples velvet, silks and net on a black background. Its still one of my favourite themes – which is why I would love to own the Art of Quilts postcard collection. Perhaps I will be lucky.
I have subscribed to your newsletter. Thanks for the great giveaway, the book looks fantastic.
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I love tall buildings! I think since I live in a small community with no tall buildings they fascinate me…
I am most interested in the Victorian houses and the charm they bring to quilts.
I think I am mostly drawn to contemporary architecture because of the variations of lines and forms. I especially like when vivid bright colors are used, these totally capture my attention.
I absolutely love old church buildings or victorian.
What fun cards and what a treat to be able to use them. I love the old barns…stone, red, hand-pegged, and their roofs. Especially when they are complimented by silos and other outbuildings.
I like all kinds of architecture. Especially old and rustic.
I love looking at the old row homes in the Philadelphia area. They have some very interesting brick work. Most people don’t look up, but I do!
I am fascinated by architecture. On of myfirst experience was the architecture of the southwest. The shapes, the color, even the sky. I like the modern architecture at the Denver Art Museum as well as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. I worked at the greenest building in Denver, almost all glass, a real wonder with a green roof. Architects are the visionaries of the world.
Great new book! The architecture that inspires is that of the Southwest, as seen in “Sunny Side Up.” The earthy colors, soft shapes… just lovely. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of the book.
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I love the bridges in Pennsylvania and the houses that look like the are sitting on the side of the mountain
I love making architectural related quilts!!!! I am inspired by photos I have taken on vacations etc.
I am so lucky to have a quilt in the Archictecture of the Quilt Exhibit at the IQF in Houston in November. It has photos of Texas Buildings and Monuments that I took on vacation there.
i love southwest style archictecture such as they have in santa fe, nm and that area…
I find my inspiration in small villages and old houses.
I love to go to the city and looking up at all the old old buildings… there are so often fun and artisitic features on the old brick and stone buildings… great inspiration for free-motion quilting.
I am drawn to the Art Nouveau period and I have spread the word to my quilting friends on Facebook
Quilting inspiration is everywhere!
what kind of architecture inspires {me}?
Victorian !!
and thank you for this FaB giveaway – my DIL is an architect so this is waaay cool! and a perfect gift =))
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I have just returned from a week in the Charleston, SC area and am in awe of the beautiful architecture that was able to be preserved during the Civil War.
Beautiful!
I am inspired by castles! The older, the better.
I enjoy the architecture of Europe and Asia. The towns that in the older sections are inspiring to me.
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