Road to California #3 01-28-14

Four more quilts that caught my eye at Road. 

 

 

This quilt is very much in a style that Nancy Crow worked some years ago.  It has wonderful color and the black cuts on the white cuts on the black  strips/white strips make it fresh and crisp. 

 

Fabulous color.  I think she sewed long strips together and then cut them in segments. The only problem I have with this quilt is that I don't see how it can be called "Modern Pieced", it is very much like so many quilts I have seen over the past twenty years or so. 

David Taylor has done it again - made a fabulous quilt with exacting applique and amazing quilting.  It does look like a painting to me.

 Each little appliqued feather looks like a brush stroke.

 

The white glove lady held up the corner so I could take a picture of the back.  Beautiful leaves and vines.  He changes the bobbin thread when he changes the top thread, creating a "ghost" of the image on the back.

This great portrait was created by my friend Nancy Ota.  She is so talented, all of her quilts are outstanding in design and technical expertise.  This is so much her grandson - a great little guy.

 

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Quilt Festival - LBeach '13 08-05-13

I'm still house bound - taking pills, using an inhaler, drinking plenty of fluids, sleeping a lot.   I plan to repeat this for the next few days to be sure that I am really over it before I resume my "normal" life.  Fortunately I have adequate groceries, books yet to read, and, as is to be expected, piles and piles of unfinished projects and paperwork.  I'd like to be able to go to VAM in San Diego to a special program they are offering on Saturday.
  http://visionsartmuseum.org/calendar-dtl.asp?calID=146

Below are all the pictures I took at Long Beach.  As usual, I look at quilts and then go back to photograph, but that didn't work for me this year.  I only looked at maybe half the quilts and developed this bronchial thing so couldn't go back to take pictures.  Bummer!


Betty Busby is so talented, she covers so many techniques and styles it is always a surprise and a delight to see her work.  For some years I thought there were two Betty Busby's.  The work that I saw was so varied that I was continually surprised - still am!
 
This quilt has such gentleness and grace, it made me stop, admire, and photograph, even though I was just walking through the exhibit area en route to somewhere else.

   

There is love there.

On the same walk through I came to this wall of quilts which I found appealing and stopped to look, read and photograph.  The two on the right are by two of my favorite artists and the one on the left is a pattern I have thought about making for many years. 

 

Just the name "Endless Chain" is intriguing.  As a child visiting the quilting ladies at the Grange I thought it was "Endless Change" because the Grange ladies made only scrap quilts and the scraps were endlessly changing.  The colors here appeal to me and make me smile.
 

 

Bodil's work is so distinctive - always colorful and filled with fun bits that one must search to discover - the little sheep roaming the hills, the tiny mug on the ground.  She is represented in Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection and I always hope to add another of her works.  The words written in the border are:   "I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night when the winds are blowing low and the stars are shining bright."

Every edge is applied with zig-zag stitching.
 

http://www.ruthpowersartquilts.com/

 
This dear little guy was created by Ruth Powers who makes realistic images, but with the feeling of a painting rather than a photograph.  Look at the wonderful "cloudy" background made of soft flowers and the graceful leaves with their quilted veins.  She has a good eye for color and chooses her fabric prints carefully.  And notice the FMQ on the background - Ruth is a pro on a home machine. 

Quilt Festival - Long Beach '12 07-30-12

More pictures from QFestival - Long Beach.  There were about 500 quilts there and I only photographed a tiny part of the show.   Mostly they are quilts that I find interesting or admire, but I also take quilts that I think some friends will enjoy seeing.
The placards are all wonky because I tried to get an angle that eliminated the bright light so that they could be read.  Some pictures have a plastic strip near the bottom - these strips are to keep viewers from getting too close to the quilts.  They aren't used in front of every quilt, just most - I don't understand the criteria used.


 

I do love Bodil's work - she has such an different take on everything. 

Her machine applique is done with satin stitch.   

 

http://janelloydtextiles.co.uk

I admire Jane Lloyd's work and posted one of her quilts previously (check for her name on the sidebar).
 
 She fuses and then stitches, but sometimes not, as in the little "sticks".

 

This is a great quilt, though this picture isn't so great.  See how the leaves lead the eye from corner to corner and all is safely contained in the symmetrical border.  

 

 
I've looked admiringly at Beatrice's quilts for years - such patience she has.

 
And it takes a lot of patience to photograph one at a quilt show, because there is always someone looking closely at it.  At least this lady has a nice hat -wish I had asked her where she bought it!  Having someone in the picture gives you an idea how small the squares are - awesome.

 

 

 
Kathy York made this in 2006 and has gone on to explore the theme of cities and towns and houses in many different styles - usually wonderful bright colors.  It was in the display of quilts made in the last 25 years and appears in the new book "Lone Stars III" the third and final part of a trilogy on Texas quilts.   

 

 
I think the name says it all!

 

 
Lovely images of three seasons (autumn, winter, spring).  What?  No summer?  This reminded me of the cross stitch bell pulls made in the 1980s (and other times, of course).  I haven't seen appliqued or pieced bell pulls, but why not?   Might be an up and coming direction for quilting.

 

 
Many of you know I am a poodle nanny, which is rather strange because for the first fifty or so years of my life I never liked poodles - too yippy, too nervous, always clicking around with their painted toenails.  But then I met Corky, the Poodle Prince, and fell in love.  This beautifully made quilt is just a reminder of my previous aversion and it has no connection or resemblance to the Prince.