Archive for the ‘Quilt Design’ Category
Nine quilts are highlighted in this video of my solo exhibition En Masse in the Kruk Gallery at the University of Wisconsin – Superior. The twelve quilts span from 2017-2025. Quilt List: Blue-Eyed Son, 2021 Even the Silence, 2024 Counting Stars, 2022 Poppy Field, 2017 The Last Time, 2023 New Harmony: Water, 2025 New […]
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Here is a video archive of From the Artist’s Collection: Nine Quilts by Erick Wolfmeyer, my debut exhibition at the 2018 international quilt festival Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork (European Patchwork Meeting) in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France. The 2018 exhibit coincided with my 20th year as a quilt maker. I have been invited and plan to […]
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Night & Day quilt top completed August 2025 ~ 90 x 90 inches I have driven by this Summit Street Historic District (Iowa City, Iowa) sign countless times. My desire to translate it into a quilt block increased with each passing. The classic repeating Schoolhouse quilt block (along with Log Cabin) is one of my […]
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Four Square quilt top completed April 2025 ~ 90 x 90 inches hand quilting pending Inspired by one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete block houses, the Millard House in Pasadena, California, I started this quilt in response to the devastating Southern California fires of January 2025. This quilt is a value study in color.
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Rose of Sharon quilt top completed December 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches hand quilting pending Inspired by scores of triangular leftover pieces from Aprés Le Sueur. Once completed, the flower like medallion shapes that emerged resembled the Rose of Sharon blossom, a flower rich with symbolic meaning, from the Bible to John Steinbeck’s Grapes […]
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Summer’s End quilt top completed October 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches hand quilting pending Inspired by the colors of my favorite season, Autumn.
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Aprés Le Sueur quilt top completed August 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by French artist Eustache Le Sueur’s painting, Meekness, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Lincoln Slept Here (And Other Specious Claims) quilt top completed January 2024 ~ 90 x 90 inches Amish hand quilting pending Inspired by an overshot woven blanket design as seen at the President Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site (Springfield, Illinois) the summer of 2023. September 2025
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Houndstooth quilt top completed October 2023 ~ 90 x 90 inches hand quilting pending Inspired by learning that the houndstooth pattern has been found in textiles dating as far back as the Bronze Age from the Hallstatt Celtic Salt Mine, Austria, 1500-1200 BC.
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Monarch quilt top completed January 2023 ~ 90 x 90 inches hand quilting pending Inspired by 2nd-3rd century AD Syrian tile from art collection at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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