Quilting Really Does Make A Difference!

 Jerry Dunbar makes fascinating quilts.

     This Highlands Ranch, CO quiltmaker has won prizes and had his work featured in exhibits. One of his strengths is combining careful hand quilting with strong graphics, machine piecing, in his original designs.

      Let me prove it. Here's one of my favorites: a modern sampler called

                                                                      Ian's Bed Is Broken. 

Made for Ian, naturally. This is the unquilted version.

     Nice, huh? Particularly if you like Crazies. But take a look when the sections are quilted -- that's what makes this piece really special.

Every section is quilted differently. So in a strong sense, the Sampler is Sampled twice!

    

Next, two quilts from what I like to call Jerry's Blue Period. This one is Wishing Star.  ("When you wish upon a star...")

Another of Jerry's Blue Period quilts

And finally, Let It Flow -- a geometric foursome inspired by a design challenge -- and a page of graph paper. Each block is colored differently -- but pieced the same.

One of Jerry's original quilting motifs is the bisected square topped with a circle. Round and curved quilting motifs add visual interest to straight line and square piecing. 

He's fond of a 'sunset/sunrise' angled motif, too.

See more of Jerry's work at 2026's Mens Quilts exhibit, featured at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO.

(All quilts are original designs by Gerald Dunbar; any of these photos needs permission for use.)