In San Diego tonight. 04-18-15

I feel that I have spent a week driving on I-5.  Last Sunday and  Wednesday to San Diego and back, today to San Diego and Tuesday and Wednesday to San Clemente.   I decided driving home in the dark tonight was more than I could handle, so am staying  at Homewood Suites near Visions Art Museum.  This evening was the opening reception for the new exhibit - six artists and 64 challenge quilts.  The place is stuffed with art.  I am particularly fond of Karen Rips work and she has seven pieces hanging - they look great.  Check out the artists being featured:  http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/

I'll be driving home in the morning and maybe it will be clear enough to take some more ocean views.  It was a little too hazy and too much traffic on the way down today.

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Workshop with Mary Lou Weidman 04-16-15

A terrific workshop with Mary Lou Weidman yesterday.  She had been the speaker at the Surfside QGuild meeting the day before and had a full workshop with a waiting list.  She is a good teacher, well prepared and attentive to her students. 

 

Mary Lou and Del in front of "Asilomar/Pacific Grove", the Mary Lou quilt that is part of the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.  We hung it at the workshop so everyone could get a good look.

This is part of another quilt that Mary Lou showed and I was taken with the flower on the right.

 

Here is my version sans stem and birdie.  I want to  put some leaves on the stem and ran out of time in the workshop.

 

This was the first project to learn the Hoochy Momma style of piecing that Mary Lou uses. 

 

 

Then we did a tulip in a pot.  And went on to try other flower blocks.  You can see how large the flowers are in the picture below.

 

Standing: Kathy Bellamy, Pam Herrington, Patty Seebold, Katy Lillie, Nancy Northrup, Wendy McCalley, Mary Lou Weidman,     , Linda Rigdon, Barbara  Seidel, Maxine Fries,    , Victoria Crayne  Seated: Vivien Hawker, Janis Schonfeld, Jan Hirth, Marjie Butterworth, Del Thomas, Vickie Janis.

 

Here is the whole class with at least one of their blocks with Mary Lou in the center back.

Looks like I was taking a nap!

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Wordless Wednesday 04-15-15

Wild iris at Asilomar  April 2015



Mary Lou Weidman 04-14-15

Mary Lou Weidman presented the program at Surfside Quilters Guild in San Clemente, CA, today.  She is a dynamic and humorous speaker who I highly recommend for any guild - traditional or art. She speaks extemporaneously and does a trunk show of some of her quilts.  I'm taking her workshop tomorrow. 

This quilt is a sampler for her "Flower Power" workshop, the one she will teach tomorrow.



Many of her quilts have "critters" in them - like this crazy chicken.

 

Thia is "Duck, Duck, Moose" one of the new patterns in her latest book.

 

And here is an entire town of houses done as part of a group who exchanged house and tree blocks.

 

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Monday Browsing 04-13-15

Battery – Dead or Alive.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_m6p99l6MEhttp://www.visionsartmuseum.org/online.asp

Visions online exhibit:    http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/online.asp

Main Visions page with pictures from exhibit that just ended:   http://www.visionsartmuseum.org/

The Art Quilt Gallery in New York has closed, but their website still shows pieces from their exhibits:
http://www.artquiltgallerynyc.com/The_ArtQuilt_Gallery_NYC/Past_Shows.html

Here is a site with over 31,000 quilt images (I didn’t count them – just believe)
http://myquiltplace.com/photo?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GLMQPphoto&gclid=CMGdqYKa9cQCFQwQaQodowUAeA

 

Pecheco Pass, CA  June 2005

A Garden Wall 04-12-15

I drove to San Diego again today to a meeting of a small group I belong to.  The ocean was hazy and the sky not very clear - no views of Santa Catalina Island today. 

 

After our meeting we went to lunch at "The Patio", a dog friendly restaurant near the home of the hostess.  I wasn't  impressed with the food, but across the back of the room is a garden wall.  This type of living décor was popular several decades ago, but I haven't seen one for years - perhaps they are coming back into style. 

 

This one is well cared for and has a great variety of plants.

I won't identify everything but among the plants are:

Boston fern, orchids (white), philodendrons, bromeliads,

..... pitcher plant, more bromeliads, asparagus fern.

 

This is looking up at the skylight which seems to provide perfect light for this display.

Several beautifully marked dieffenbachia.

Very impressive for such a small restaurant.

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