One of the special exhibits at Pacific International Quilt Festival this year is "Currency Exchange". Ninety fiber artists in the USA, Japan and New Zealand each chose a motif from a coin or bill from any country and use the motif on the money as inspiration to design a piece for the exhibit. There is no date shown, but this exhibit must have been put together prior to 2006 because one of the signs indicates that the coin she used would be taken out of circulation in that year. I found the overall quality to be very good and some of the pieces are outstanding. Such as this one from Oregon....
The signs with this exhibit are dark and I find it difficult to adjust the value so you can read it.
The colored circles were made separately and applied to the quilt top. If you click to enlarge you can see that the motifs were taken from the bills below. Bulls, faces, peacock, gazelles (?), camels and .... form the kaleidoscopes.
This is a poor image, but it is a photo of what appear to be photocopies of the actual bills that inspired Linda. The exhibit includes few motifs from US coins and currency, I suppose because those of many other countries are so elaborate.
Jan is a popular quilting teacher in Adult Ed classes in Orange County, CA. She encourages her students to expand their quilt making skills and try new colors and designs.
This is such a bright and cheery quilt, in addition to being very clever. See if you can find each of the different dogs named in the label.
Gail is the owner of Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove. She so busy with her business she doesn't have time to make many quilts that are not related to the shop. I'm always excited to see her latest work.
She has learned from Ruth McDowell how to vary the integrated border fabrics to lend more depth and excitement to the piece. When everything was pieced together Gail felt there were not enough leaves on the tree, she solved the problem by adding enough raw edge leaves to make the completed quilt more like the image in her mind. 
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It is good to see the show through your eyes -- hope you made it back there again. I have a piece in PIQF as well. Take care, Del.
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