Aug07
Barbara Bieraugel Designs: Q & A #5
Barbara Bieraugel
http://BarbaraBieraugelDesigns.com
Q: Why are you a quilt designer? When did you start designing quilts and quilted projects and what has been your inspiration throughout your quilt designing career?
A: Even though I had sewed most of my clothes while in college and early 20’s, I was not a quilter. I was a knitter. While living in New Jersey, a neighbor, whose husband was battling cancer asked me to go to a quilt class with her. Sure why not? It would be something to do – not that I would ever keep making quilts!!
HMMMM, that was mid 1990’s. I followed directions at first but it was not long before I had fabric and designed a pattern to use it. Never thought of publishing and selling patterns until we moved to Hawaii and I made my original Honu (turtle) quilt. Then the local quilt store owner started asking me to make patterns that were of a tropical nature, since there was a lack of them. And in 2006 I released my tropical fish series. Many of my patterns are nature inspired. If we follow the color combinations that nature gives and the flora and fauna that is out there how can we lose? So, follow nature and then let the fabric do a lot of the work for you, would be words (I would suggest) to an inspiring quilter.
Fish Sampler designed by Barbara Bieraugel
Barbara Bieraugel Designs offers quilt designs for you from Hawaii. The applique and pieced quilt patterns are often tropical or nature inspired. Realistic applique patterns offer you colorful tropical fish, butterfly, flowers, sea turtle or honu, and even a couple of giraffes. Many of the Hawaiian quilt patterns were designed from those flowers in my gardens here in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.
