APWQ QShow 09-03-11

I'm still with Mary and Joe outside of San Juan Bautista, but tomorrow is drive time again and I will be home to face the wreckage of being gone for three weeks.  That big box of mail awaits! 

These are the last pictures from Association of Pacific West Quilters Quilt Show. 

A very different design from Colleen, but she has still used her very distinctive shadows.

 

I am familiar with Andi's applique works and her optic designs, but this is the first of her art quilts I have seen.  Nice Shibori.  She was one of the few California artists with quilts in the show.  I hope to see more California quilts next time.

 

It is no surprise that this very original piece comes from Cynthia.  She does some of the most amazing things with her quilts.  This is a fabric perpetual calendar - one just rearranges the velcroed blocks at the beginning of each month.   I love the 28 little sticks and those 31white buttons.  Each date is unique and sooo clever.

This was the most unusual quilt at the show.  I don't understand it at all, but it certain attracted my attention.

 

This quilt has a beautiful texture, both the surface of the fabric and the quilting.  The detail photo was taken of the area at the bottom of the tall light colored structure.  I may need to take this class from Janet Fogg!

Wonderful paper piecing.  Fabulous machine quilting.  Lovely Norman.

This quilt is part of the traveling exhibit "Living Colour" (the Canadian/Great Britain spelling!) which was to be auctioned at the banquet.  But the banquet was under subscribed and needed to be cancelled.  They announced that an online auction will be held.  As I said before I will post the information when it is available.  

APWQ QShow 09-02-11

I looked at my blog pictures on Mary's large screen (as opposed to my laptop screen) and think I need to improve my editing technique!  I have adjusted many of them too light and some too small.  I'll work at improving.  If you have comments, please let me know.

I like Erika's concept here and greatly admire her handwork skills.  Look at the perfect hand quilting on the detail of the :J".  If you click on the picture you can also appreciate the wonder of her hand embroidery.

The white marks on the labels are caused by the overhead lights reflecting on the plastic that covered them.  I have removed what I could - hope they are all readable.

I don't understand the "almost traditional" on the label, they all look pretty traditional to me, but original blocks in the Baltimore Album style are always very special since they represent a personal effort by the quiltmaker.  I like the combination of different backgrounds.

What a great quilt created from a photograph on fabric.  All the detail stands out and the quilting makes it all work.  I know it isn't to everyone's taste - some think that quilting a photograph is "cheating" - but it appeals to my sense of detail.  And it is quilted nicely. 

A beautifully done portrait of a dear pet.  Nice thread painting and machine quilting.

Here is another 'critter' with great thread painting and machine quilting.  I am not familiar with "brackled" and don't find it quickly in the online dictionary - anyone?

 

And another bear!  I think there may have been a third that I didn't photograph.  The quilt is the rectangular center and the uneven outer edge is like a flange on a pillow.  Carrying the bear and the foliage outside the center quilt is very effective.

APWQ QShow 09-01-11

A gorgeous day in the hills outside San Juan Bautista - sunshine and flowers blooming in Mary's deck boxes. Today was my 73rd birthday - at some point in the past I didn't want to admit to having a birthday and getting "old".  Now each year is an accomplishment!  Mary served fresh wild salmon for dinner - it was beyond delicious - and we followed up with olallieberry pie/vanilla ice cream.  A dinner for royalty!

This quilt really made a visual impact.  Just stunning from a distance and interesting to see the work close up.  The detail shot is of the right side panel.

The label states that this quilt is all done with curved piecing and it definitely looks like Ruth McDowell's technique.  Obviously Wanda does excellent sewing and she has a good eye for color.  I love this quilt.

 

Such realistic feathers and a very realistic eye.  Quite a beautiful quilt with great technique.

I'm sorry I did not get a full-on shot of this beautiful quilt.  The colors are so vivid and the detail very accomplished.  Note the stamen on the hibiscus in the detail above.

 

This is why I need to go a 2nd day to a big QShow - just to retake the pictures I messed up on the first day.

Anyone who is a fan of Linnea artwork will appreciate this quilt.  I use their desk top calendar every year and am inspired each month by the graphic quality of the illustrations. http://linneadesign.com/

Terry learned Velda Newman's lessons well and created in the large scale that Velda uses.  This quilt is six feet wide and almost four feet long.  I'll bet she has special place on her wall to show it off.

This is a little tropical fish hidden in the shoulder - right edge about halfway.

There is (was?) an oil painter who did this type of brilliant interpretation of animals.  I went to a dentist who had some prints on the walls of his waiting room - many years ago.  The look on the horse's face seems so sad - I wonder if it is intensified by the blue color.