Skip to content

Top Navigation

AllPeopleQuilt.com AllPeopleQuilt.com
  • Quilt patterns
  • Bags, pillows & gifts
  • Holiday quilts
  • How to quilt
  • Tips
  • Quilting News
  • Magazines & More
  • Shopping

Profile Menu

Your Account

Account

  • Join Now
  • Newsletter
  • Email Preferences
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Help
  • Logout

More

  • Give a Gift
Login
Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore AllPeopleQuilt.com

AllPeopleQuilt.com AllPeopleQuilt.com
  • Explore

    Explore

    • Quilts for Kids

      Expectant mothers and little ones will love these handmade crib quilts! From cuddly baby quilts to quilted play throws, these quilts will be treasured for years to come. Read More Next
    • Free Fat Quarter-Friendly Quilt Patterns

      Fat quarters are fun to collect and even more fun to use! Get free quilt patterns that will make it easy for you to put your fat quarters to good use. Read More Next
    • Free Bag Patterns

      Purses, totes, and shoulder bags--we have all the free bag patterns you need! You’ll find more than 50 ideas for stylish accessories. Read More Next
  • Quilt patterns

    Quilt patterns

    See All Quilt patterns
    • Baby quilts
    • Bed quilts
    • Quilt Blocks
    • Quilt throws
    • Table runners
    • Wall quilts
  • Bags, pillows & gifts

    Bags, pillows & gifts

    See All Bags, pillows & gifts
    • Bags and purses
    • Gifts
    • Pillows
    • Pincushions
  • Holiday quilts

    Holiday quilts

    See All Holiday quilts
    • Christmas
    • Halloween
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
    • Winter
  • How to quilt

    How to quilt

    See All How to quilt
    • Quilting basics
    • Cutting
    • Piecing
    • Finishing
    • Organization
    • Machine quilting
    • Hand quilting
    • Appliqué
    • Embellishing
    • Videos
  • Tips
  • Quilting News
  • Magazines & More

    Magazines & More

    See All Magazines & More
    • American Patchwork & Quilting
    • Quilts and More
    • Quilt Sampler
    • One Million Pillowcase Challenge
    • Quilting podcast
    • Quilt designers
    • Pattern Corrections
  • Shopping

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Account

Account

  • Join Now
  • Newsletter
  • Email Preferences
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Help
  • Logout

More

  • Give a Gift
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. Magazines & More Chevron Right
  3. Quilt designers Chevron Right
  4. Tour Lisa Bongean's Home, Studio, and Warehouse

Tour Lisa Bongean's Home, Studio, and Warehouse

July 25, 2016
Skip gallery slides
Pin
Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings brings a modern-day mind-set to primitives through her work with wool appliqué, miniature quilts, and fabric designing.
Start Slideshow

1 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Meet Lisa

Lisa has hand-dyed wool, created patterns and wool kits for wholesale and retail, taught wool appliqué and hand embroidery, designed fabrics, invented a tool for making tiny triangles, and written books. Today, all those things are done under the auspices of Primitive Gatherings, a retail store, a 12,000-square-foot warehouse, a studio, and a retreat house in Menasha, Wisconsin

Visit Lisa's blog here.

1 of 10

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Mini Beauties

The smaller the pieces, the more Lisa loves them. These mini quilts are from Lisa's Little Gatherings book. Although the tiny quilt looks difficult to make, it comes together simply using five 3⁄4-inch-wide strips sewn together. The resulting 1-1⁄4-inch-square Rail Fence units are joined to create 3-3⁄4-inch-square Nine-Patch blocks.

2 of 10

3 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Sun Room Display

Garden Stitches (hanging) is from Lisa's first 1999 book of the same title, featuring hand-stitched butterflies and garden inspirations. Lisa and shop staff made the mini quilts in the basket and folded quilts in the cupboard.

3 of 10

Advertisement

4 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

A Classic Grouping

Lisa has grouped antique red and white quilts for special effect in the guest bedroom. See a detail of the bed quilt on the next page.

4 of 10

5 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Bed Quilt Detail

The Feathered Star variation on the guest room bed is hand-quilted.

5 of 10

6 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

A Happy Workplace

Simply Sunflowers, Lisa's first needleturn appliqué quilt (1999), overlooks her lower-level home studio.

6 of 10

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Playful Intent

A big cutting table encourages Lisa to play. Colorful binders store notes and ideas for new fabrics and projects.

7 of 10

8 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

A Wool-Lover's Dream

Primitive Gatherings, known for their hand-dyed wool, felts and cuts fabrics as bolts arrive from the mill.

8 of 10

9 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Start of the Process

After they arrive, the lengths of wool are soaked and stirred in a trough filled with water and liquid soap.

9 of 10

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

10 of 10

Pin
Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Worth the Wait

Primitive Gatherings maintains more than 100 colors of wool, each length hand-dyed one yard at a time. Each yard of wool takes 1-1⁄2–2 hours, depending on the color.

10 of 10

Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 10 Meet Lisa
2 of 10 Mini Beauties
3 of 10 Sun Room Display
4 of 10 A Classic Grouping
5 of 10 Bed Quilt Detail
6 of 10 A Happy Workplace
7 of 10 Playful Intent
8 of 10 A Wool-Lover's Dream
9 of 10 Start of the Process
10 of 10 Worth the Wait

Share options

Facebook Tweet Mail Email iphone Send Text Message
AllPeopleQuilt.com

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Content Licensing

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Food & Wine this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Allpeoplequilt is part of the Meredith Home Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.allpeoplequilt.com

View image

Tour Lisa Bongean's Home, Studio, and Warehouse
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.