Road to California - last seven quilts 01-31-14

 Here are the last seven quilts I photographed at Road to CA on Friday.

 

This is right up there at the top of my favorites.  Patt has a great talent and a good eye for what works.  Her painting is wonderful and her thread painting is spot-on.  I somehow failed to take a picture of the sign, so I worked up poor replacement.  

Any experienced birder could identify this as a snow bunting.

 

 

This is a poor image of this quilt made of 1" finished squares of hundreds of different fabrics.

 



I found it just awesome in it's color - it almost shimmered.

 

 

 

 

 

. I had just had a discussion about Baltimore Album quilts when I came across this one.  It is just "in the style of, but with original tropical blocks rather than copies of old designs

 

 

I've seen such amazing quilts started in Susan Carlson's classes.  And every finished one is a knock-out.

Here is another Baltimore Album, done in the traditional, but with not quite traditional

 blocks.  Great autumn colors, very nice quilting.

 

I like this bird block (of course), but the main reason I snapped it is that I could get the camera close enough since it is in the lower right hand corner of the quilt.  Road still bars viewers from getting close to the quilts by putting up strips of clear plastic about three feet in front of each quilt.

 

 

I  believe this is a photo on fabric that has been thread painted.  She did a great job. 

She achieved her goal of accenting the negative space.  But I feel sorry

 for this little gal sitting in the snow!

 

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Wordless Wednesday 01-30-14

 

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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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