Keiko Goke est une grande dame du patchwork au Japon, reconnue depuis des dizaines d’années pour ces patchs modernes haut en couleurs. Elle réinterprète avec brio des blocs traditionnels, comme ici le log cabin. Elle a écrit il y a quelques années ce livre qui a été traduit en français, il est épuisé aujourd’hui, … Continuer la lecture de L’artiste du vendredi : Keiko Goke →
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I finished quilting and binding this quilt over the weekend, washed it and took a nap under it today! 75" x 66" Here's t...
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I wanted to post pictures of our quilt show which occurred over the weekend, but then I realized I had not gotten permission from any of the artists to show their work, in fact forgot to take pix of the labels so I would even know who to give credit to. Besides that, my pictures were crap. Thankfully, not everyone around here is so dense. My friend Claire took great pix, and posted some of them here. Good job, Claire! Meanwhile, here's a picture of our new black drapes - with no quilts! Take my word for it, the quilts look fabulous against them, and the look really transforms our show. I thought the Bargain Garden was a safe and worthy topic, but there was no way to capture it in one shot, not with my camera anyway. It's huge! I'm happy to report I walked away with only a bag full of magazines, which will no doubt end up back in the Bargain Garden next year. Another safe subject is the Live Auction, which got off to a slow start, but once everyone was warmed up the bidding really took off. We had a new auctioneer this year, unfortunately I don't have his name handy, but he was great! Here he is, auctioning off my quilt, which is sideways. That's my friend Cheryl holding the quilt. Do you know any other quilt show that features a Man Land? Here's ours, ready for those weary (or bored) husbands. I took one later of someone's husband asleep in the recliner, but not knowing who it was, I thought it might be cruel to post it. You never know when these things might go viral and embarrass someone. I hope I don't get in trouble for posting the following photo. Last year, two Santa Cruz police officers were shot and killed, just days after the 2013 quilt show. One of our members, also a 911 dispatcher, created this quilt as a tribute to the two officers and presented it to the police chief. Rather than end this post on a sad note, I'll end it on an encouraging one. The quilt below was made by a ten-year-old boy, as part of a 4-H program run by fellow quilter Rosa Kitchen. Ten-year old Josh McLoughlin designed, sewed, and quilted this himself on Rosa's longarm machine. Its amazing what these kids can do, when they're taught that they can do anything! love, Sandy ps Incidentally, the teal and red quilt at the top of the page was a rescue from the flea market, donated to the auction and sold for $150. Crazy! pss Here's a link to the newspaper article featuring Rachel Clark, this year's Featured Artist, and Josh, the boy who made the dog quilt. I figure if the paper can publish these pictures, so can I !
I'm sneaking in at the end of Amy's fabulous Bloggers' Quilt Festival this year to share my favorite (for now!) quilt. Meet Ingrid: Ingrid is a quilt I finally sewed up earlier this year. She's made of bee blocks from the talented members of the Not Your Grandma's Quilting Bee group on flickr. I asked everyone to make blocks inspired by an incredible Ingrid Press quilt that I saw here. They are each sewn out of various cotton and linen neutrals, a piece of shot cotton, and a print (mostly Anna Maria Horner's Good Folks). (Click on the photos to see them more clearly.) I chose blue and green shot cottons and a strip of more Good Folks for the backing, and quilted a basic loose grid to keep Ingrid nice and soft. Although I think she's absolutely beautiful, I really love Ingrid because she is a family quilt. She spends her days crumpled up amongst legos and dog hair... ... and is well loved by all of my kids too. Thanks for visiting! And make sure to check out the rest of the entries in the Bloggers' Quilt Festival too. There are so many inspiring quilts posted!
Cantilever Cabins quilt 34 x 60 inches Another small quilting project completed last week which I am calling Cantilever Cabins because of the layout of my units makes me think of modern architecture's modern buildings made from units that are stacked and sometimes cantilevered designs that defy gravity. It's a riot of colors and finished around the time the gay rainbow flag is flying in lots of big cities commemorating the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York City. I missed them by five years when I moved there in 1974 to study art in Brooklyn. Eventually I found my way to the parade in the summer of 1975 marching up 7th Avenue to Central Park where we playing with the rainbow strips on my design wall had a blast dancing to a disco radio truck at the Bethesda Fountain and watching men strip naked and climb the fountain angle's shoulders to wiggle and dance displaying their pride while clearly under the influence of some mind altering chemicals we didn't have... I digress, this quilt is all cotton and made from lots of scraps of colors and neutrals. I used inspiration from an antique wool suiting quilt pictured here for the blocks shape using a triple bar log cabin block. antique triple bar log cabin wool quilt I chose a different way to stack my blocks which is where the cantilever came from in the title. I organized my colored blocks as darks and the lighter ones as background. The binding is a scrappy mix of strips from the same fabrics in the brightly colored blocks. My backing consisted of left over strips which I assembled in different lengths alternating warm and cool sets stacked up like a pile of books surrounded with off white print scraps for a background. The quilting is using multi colored pearl cotton #8 around the squares on the top/front and showing up nicely on the whites of the back side and the stack of multi colored bars. In the final stages I had to make two labels. The first label on a strip of patchwork didn't work on the quilt because it was different scale. This first label looked great when I started but once the wash away was gone the coral pearl cotton threads didn't read very well, so I began again. failed label embroidery I am happy with this coral on white in a square format like the quilting from the front. Sometimes simple really is the best choice. Thanks to the Modern Quilt Guild for the idea to mix lots of neutrals with bright colors in a new way using old fashioned block design.
So you’ll probably recognize this design from my Brrr! mini quilt. Originally I was going to make a larger quilt using the aqua as the background, but after making a few blocks I thought it m…
A few posts ago I mentioned that I had been inspired by the Disappearing Nine Patch to create a Disappearing Log Cabin, only to find out th...
Saturday I met Love at the Arlington Quilt Show and we had a great time! We saw so many wonderful quilts and here are some of my favorites. This quilt of little dresses was just adorable! Love and I agreed that this would be a great pattern to use for an appliqued quilt with the blocks and pieces being very big. This quilt was absolutely stunning!! Look at the eagle quilted in the design. Also, a liberty bell! This baby quilt was just amazing! Look at this border! Wouldn't you love to make a border like that? Another gorgeous quilt with fabulous quilting! Here's a close-up view. maybe if you click on the picture you can see the quilting. Love and I both would like to make this quilt. In the blue border there are patriotic phrases quilted, such as "In God we Trust." We both made a few purchases from the vendors (of course) and I had my scissors sharpened, then we went to lunch. It was a very good day!
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my echino log cabin quilt top is finished!! (carissa, yours is next!!) i decided early on that i was going to sash the blocks with muslin, but i only at the last minute decided to add in little four patch squares in the corners--i wanted to use up some of the leftover scraps! not sure at all how to quilt this one . . .
It's almost here! Can you feel the excitement building? I will have 12 quilts in the Sisters show this year plus 6 inside of sponsor businesses in Sisters and Bend. In addition to showing them here again for those who can't make it to the show, I thought it mig
Play With Color and Value for Your Own Unique Version! A simple modification to Log Cabin blocks creates stars that sparkle across the surface of this beautiful quilt. Jelly roll strips make this a quick project that even beginning quilters can complete. As with all Log Cabin quilts, the magic of this design comes from …
Gwen Marston was the keynote speaker at this year’s QuiltCon West 2016 in Pasadena, and had a special exhibition GWEN MARSTON: Abstract Quilts in Solids. A trailblazer and well-known interna…
Made for Artistic Layers contest Last of the Autumn Quilts http://www.polyvore.com/last_autumn_quilts/contest.show?id=372878
Yes, handwork and modern quilting do go hand in hand. Actually almost all quilting traditions and techniques can be seen in some way in the quilts at QuiltCon and other modern quilting exhibitions…
