Jean Judd Art Quilts - Commissions

Commissions

This section features some of the textile commissions I have completed over the last two decades. Scroll down to view them along with descriptions and detail images of each work.

If you are interested in having a piece designed and constructed for youself, or to give as a gift for someone else, please go to the Commission Forms page. If you would prefer to send me an email to start the process, please go to the Contact Artist page and fill in the email form. I usually answer all emails within 24 to 48 hours. If you have not heard from me after 48 hours, please contact me again, as sometimes for unknown reasons, emails get lost in cyberspace and I don't receive them. Some things are just out of our control and the Internet is one of them.

General information is available on my Commission Forms page and clients can fill out the appropriate form for their order. I am always happy to help clients brainstorm and find what they truly want created just for them and the specific place they have in mind for the completed work. Clients can be as involved or uninvolved with the development of their art piece as they desire. The potential client's personality should be reflected in the artwork. Much like the style reflected in their home or office, the piece has to "fit" them. This is why I make textile artwork to fit a vision and not follow current trends which could be out of vogue before the piece is even completed and displayed.

Just send me an email or call me and I will be glad to discuss the possibilities. Private studio tours are available upon request to prospective clients as well. On-site consultations can also be available when schedule permits, for a fee.

Farm Scene #2 (2008), Jean M. Judd This is the second in the series of quilts based off the center panel. This piece was actually commissioned after a client saw the Farm Scene #1 art quilt that was donated to a Silent Auction.

This piece is much larger, different windowpane design and has more intricate and dense hand quilting. The white "panes" are hand appliqued to the whole cloth center panel.

There are horseshoes hand quilted in the brown border sections and a diamond grid is quilted in the center panel to symbolize rain falling at an angle.

The owners of this quilt have a deep love of horses so horse fabric was also found and included in the piece as the border units. A large horse is also hand quilted in the final border around the entire quilt. It will be used alternately on a guest room bed and displayed on a wall in the family room. Detail Photo Back Detail Photo Center Detail Photo Top Detail Photo Stitching

Antique Sampler Block (2007), Jean M. Judd This piece was commissioned by a couple in Belgium. The quilt is 96 inches x 88 inches and is made to fit their bed. Antique quilt blocks from 1890 through 1938 were constructed to make this sampler quilt. Blocks used in this quilt include: Bear's Den, Capital T, Arkansas Crossroads, Best of All, Balkan Puzzle, Fair and Square, Turkey in the Straw, Texas Treasure, King's Highway, A Dandy, A Scrap Patch, Double Pyramid, Beauregard's Surroundings, Bridal Path, Grandmother's Quilt, Pharlemina's Favorite, Cubed Lattice, Friendship Star, Pinetree and Economy (Garden of Eden). The quilt is machine pieced, hand quilted and hand bound. Quilting designs found in the quilt include: garden gates, flying birds, baby foot prints, watering can, tea cups, houses, puzzle pieces, film strips, frogs, leaves, roses, turtles, books, daisy chains, diamonds, stars and a seashell. Detail Photo

Family Name #5 (2008), Jean M. Judd This wall hanging was commissioned for a family that just had their fifth child. A leaf was hand quilted in the plain squares and each family member's name and birth dates were hand quilted inside the leaf. The mother, is a science teacher so a fabric with a teacher holding a beaker was used for her block. The father is a design engineer so a fabric showing a man working furiously at his computer was used for his block. The oldest children, four boys, are heavily involved in multiple sports: football, basketball, baseball and golf. Fabrics were selected to represent each of these sports.The newest has baby duck fabric that is quilted with shamrocks. There is one leaf left for another child or they may opt to have something else quilted here. Detail Photo

Wyoming Valley #4 (2006), Jean M. Judd This quilt was designed for a crop farmer. It is the third quilt using the Wyoming Valley block, the same block used in the Choir of Angels quilt as well as the example shown for the Custom Wyoming Valley quilt. A marked difference between each quilt.

This quilt features a navy blue fabric that has a design like rumpled satin. The blue and the red were specifically selected by the quilt owner for the International Harvester logo.

The yellow is actually individual, densely packed corn kernels to represent the owner's livelyhood. The lighter blue fabric that looks like buttons is actually densely printed baseballs with dates from the 1950s. Detail Photo #1 Detail Photo #2 Detail Photo #3

Family Name #1 (2005), Jean M. Judd This was made for a young couple married for two years, who were expecting their first child in August 2005. The couple's names and birth dates are hand stitched in the top two hearts. The family dog's name and birth date is in the bottom heart on the right hand side. When their first child was born, her name and birth date were added. As more children join the family, the wall hanging will be returned to me to add in their information, which they did in April 2007 for the birth of their second child. The "W" is made with wood grained fabric as the couple built a log cabin in 2006. The background fabric behind the "W" has an oriental motif as the wife was born in Japan. The specialty fabrics are from France, given to the wife's mother as a gift. Detail Photo

Lakeside Gran Torino (2005), Jean M. Judd This piece was commissioned by a classic car owner and we went to a lake near his home to take this photograph to use for this wall art. He is a collector of many types of old cars and I have included just a couple of his commissions. This piece is displayed in his drag racing car trailer during the season and then in his den in his home during the winter months. Detail Photo

Racing Gran Torino (2005), Jean M. Judd This commision piece features a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport at the start line for a Drag Race in Rock Falls, Wisconsin. The photo is a digital image sized to a 5"x7" that was taken by me to make the wall art. This piece hangs in the race trailer of the owner of the car along with two other pieces he commissioned.
Detail Photo

Custom Ford Gran Torino (2005), Jean M. Judd This commission was on exhibit June 23-25, 2006 in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Minnesota Street Rod Association (MSRA) 33rd Annual "Back to the 50's Weekend" car show.

This quilt was also on display along with one of the Gran Torino cars stitched on the quilt at the Carcraft Summer Nationals in St. Paul, MN at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds from July 21-23, 2006.

Detail Photo Quilt on display June 2008 at the Back to the 50's Car show in St Paul, Minnesota. This was inside the owners race trailer.

Wyoming Valley #3 (2003), Jean M. Judd This commission has four Theme Fabrics (four different sports which includes basketball, bowling, billards, and golf) but the other fabrics used remain the same to give the quilt continuity.

The quilt shown is the second in a series using the Wyoming Valley block. It was commissioned as a graduation gift for a student going off to college. It is an interesting way to view usually complicated quilt blocks and play with color and layout within each block to achieve amazing variety in designs. See some of my other quilts based on this quilt block for other dramatic images. Detail Photo

Irish Bargello (2002), Jean M. Judd This quilt was made in 2002 using 9 different fabrics in a large bargello pattern. The top is hand quilted in a scroll design. Binding was also applied by hand.

The backing is traditional, unbleached muslin. The quilt is signed and dated by the artist. The owner displays the piece on a guest bed during the winter and above the fireplace in the great room during the summer. Detail Photo

Heavenly Monet (2001), Jean M. Judd This center of this quilt was made out of 110 different fabrics each cut into a 5” square. After the center was constructed, it resembled a abstract Monet type painting.

It is framed with multiple borders so that the center would be the high light of the quilt. Each resulting pinwheel was hand quilted around its shape to accent the design.

The white border has cross hatching the blue border has its own unique hand quilting done as well.

The tan border has harps hand quilted in the right and left borders and the top and bottom borders have the artist’s version of heaven’s pearly gates. The final border is a cherub border and each cherub is echo quilted to make the cherub stand out. The backing is unbleached muslin and it is signed and dated by the artist. Detail Photo

Dog Bone Quilt (2000), Jean M. Judd This piece was commissioned by a family who owned a Westie and a Miniature Collie. This quilt is the precursor to the Family Name quilts.

Each family member's name was hand quilted into a hand appliqued dog bone on a hunter green background. Four silhouettes of a Westie were hand appliqued onto hunter green blocks.

Hand Echo quilting was done around each dog silhouette and bone 1/8 of an inch apart in each block. This gives the piece a very textured appearance. The brown sand border has hand quilted dog paws and baby foot prints. This quilt is displayed in their entry way of their home on a custom display rack. Detail Photo

Dallas Cowboys Star Quilt (2000), Jean M. Judd This quilt was commissioned as a graduation gift for a Dallas Cowboys fan. The center grey star is actually the reverse side of a piece of grey leaf fabric. It is heavily echo quilted by hand a 1/4" apart.

Stars are heavily triple quilted by hand across the surface of this whole cloth quilt. The words "Dallas" and "Cowboys" are hand appliqued to the quilt top. The recepient's name and the year are hand quilted inside various stars around the center grey star.

The quilt is hand bound and the backing fabric is traditional, unbleached muslin. Detail Photo

Solid Log Cabin Quilt (2000), Jean M. Judd This piece is made of all solid colored fabrics. Half of each Log Cabin block is made of black fabric. In the center of each block is the initial ("B") for the owner of the quilt. All quilting is done by hand on this quilt. It is also hand bound.

The backing is traditional, unbleached muslin. It is signed and dated by the artist.

This quilt was a commissioned piece in 2000. There were eight colors used in the quilt. All fabrics used were solid colors except for one sand print.
Detail Photo

40th Anniversary Quilt (1998), Jean M. Judd This quilt is a commissioned piece by three sisters who wanted a quilt for their parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. The photos in the quilt are of the parents of the anniversary couple, the anniversary couple as high school seniors, the anniversary couple on their wedding day, photos of the three daughters as children and on their wedding days, photos of the grandchildren at the time the quilt was made, a photo of the family dog and then a photo of the couple from their 39th wedding anniversary.
All photos were printed onto iron-on transfer paper and transfered onto dye cloth. Each photo was then framed in a brown marble fabric. The alternate blocks are hand quilted with a feathered heart in the center and then crosshatched outside of the heart. Detail Photo

Fighting Irish Quilt (1998), Jean M. Judd This quilt was a commission piece made in 1997. It was completed January 1, 1998.

The offset green center of the quilt features a hand quilted replica of the owner's shoulder tattoo which is a fighting leprechaun.

In each of the squares of the Nine Patch block, there is heirloom quality hand quilting. In the green blocks, there is a shamrock. In the navy blue blocks, there is a flower and in the yellow blocks, there are interconnecting circles which represent the gold coins from the pot of gold.

In the yellow border, there is a diamond shaped chain hand quilted to encircle the quilt.

The center block was off set so that when the top of the quilt was put over the pillows on the bed, the leprechaun would be in the center of the bed. Detail Photo Center Detail Photo

Blue Trip Around the World Quilt (1996), Jean M. Judd This quilt was made for a butterfly collector whose favorite color was blue. 7 blue fabrics were used with the traditional "Trip Around the World" design to make this quilt.

In each square, a butterfly is hand quilted. The quilt is hand bound and displayed in the owner's butterfly room where he has his collection of butterflies displayed.
Detail Photo

Alternatint 9 Patch Quilt (1995), Jean M. Judd This traditional pattern was requested by a client for a present for their son. His favorite shirt to wear was a red flannel shirt so cotton fabric that resembled his flannel shirt was used in the center of each square.

In the cream squares, four joined circles were hand quilted in each square forming pedals in the center.

The outside border has large circles hand quilted into it and they resemble baseballs which were the young man's favorite sport.
Detail Photo

First Christmas Quilt (1995), Jean M. Judd This quilt was a commissioned piece for a wedding gift. The client wanted a quilt that was a Christmas quilt for a cousin's wedding gift. This quilt is brought out each Christmas season and displayed in the proud couples' living room.

The entire quilt is hand quilted around each fabric patch. In the four black rectangles, feathered wreaths are hand quilted. The outer border has a hand quilted vine of leaves also shown in the detail photo.

Six (6) different fabrics featuring Cardinals, wreaths, angels, teddy bears, pine cones and Father Christmas were used in the center of the quilt. The final border is a black fabric with gold leaves. Detail Photo

Triangle Quilt (1994), Jean M. Judd The collector wanted a quilt that was red, yellow and black and that had a strong pattern theme.

The triangle was the selected shape and Christmas was the collector’s favorite holiday so two Christmas fabrics were incorporated into the design, the red fabric and the white fabric which has red and green Christmas wreaths.

Each triangle was hand quilted around the edges. In the center black square, a Dresden plate design was hand quilted along with four partial Dresden plate designs in the four corners. The four corner black squares have a feathered circle hand quilted in the center. The white border has holly leaves hand quilted in it and the final black border has a triple arch design hand quilted into it. The backing is traditional, unbleached muslin. It is signed and dated by the artist. Detail Photo Center Detail Photo

Log Cabin Variation (1994), Jean M. Judd This quilt was commissioned by the parents' of a young man who loved Christmas and wanted a special quilt for his first "big" bed.

Five Christmas fabrics were selected that featured Christmas basketes, red stockings, white angels, cardinals and a green print.

Four smaller blocks were arranged into a larger block to form pinwheel affect. A subtle grid also appeared from the green fabric. Each fabric patch was hand quilted around to bring out the patch.

Two borders were added -- one being grey leaves and the second being black. Leaves were hand quilted in the grey border and a cable design was hand quilted in the black border.

The quilt is hand bound and is used every winter by the young man who is now just a year or so away from being on his own. Detail Image

Godseye Quilt (1992), Jean M. Judd This quilt was made with the leftover pieces from my first two quilts. It was sold to my husband's aunt who just happened to have a pink and green bedroom in her home at the time.

She has since passed away and her daughter is now the caretaker of the quilt and it is displayed in their guest bedroom.