Showing posts with label Jane Sassaman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Sassaman. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Viewing the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection 09-30-18

I am frequently asked what I do with the quilts in the Collection.  Mostly they are rolled or stored flat, covered to keep out the dust, and labeled so I can find them - mostly with the help of my dear friend Liz Williams.  I couldn't do it without her!   But I do display the quilts in my house so that I can enjoy them.  There is always one at the end of the hall that I walk down dozens of times a day (and night) and usually that is where I hang the latest addition.  A few are always on display - like Terry Grant's "Yellow Bowl"  and "Blue Threads" by Elizabeth Busch.   Both of which are on stretcher bars, not something I usually buy, but sometimes cannot resist.  

I have a couple walls that are changing galleries, usually every three or four months.  With age I find it more difficult to hang the larger quilts by myself, so frequently hang groups of smaller quilts.  They might be grouped by subject, artist, color, design elements, whatever occurs to me at the time.   Tonight I am posting a "wall of red quilts", chosen just because I wanted to look at them for a while and they read RED.  Two are 80th birthday quilts from two friends, the others are rather recent additions to the Collection.    

  Petite Jungle - Jane Sassaman 2016, Round the Bend - Catherine Kleeman 2014, 
Pomegranates - Rosie Caudillo 2017, Hummingbird - Lenore Crawford 2016, 
Spring Chicken - Bonnie Damron 2018,  Birthday Bird - Patti Brooks  2018 

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Jane Sassaman @ BCQG 08-14-08

Jane Sassaman presented the program at Beach Cities Quilters Guild in San Juan Capistrano, CA, this evening. It was very hot, as it usually is in the summer. The meeting place is part of a school and they don't run the A/C when school is not in session. Whew! Strangely the last time I saw Jane was several years ago at North Cities QGuild in Placentia, CA , in July - she even mentioned it tonight as the hottest program she has ever given! Cute!


Jane is talking to one of the 200+ guild members after her presentation.


I couldn't get pictures of the quilts that were hanging, but she had stacks of beautiful, bright quilts spread out on the tables. You can see many of her quilts on her website www.janesassaman.com

You might enjoy her blog at http://sassaman.blogspot.com/

"Rose Garden" (55"W x 56"L) 2002 is the Jane Sassaman quilt in the TCQC. It is more colorful than this, but I am still having problems with photos getting darker when I transfer them to Blogger.

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