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Friday, July 24, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
A quilt for Nancy Ota 07-23-15
Nancy Ota with "A Galaxy of Gratitude"
KoKo guards the quilt!
Nancy Ota started Surfside Quilters Guild in 2009 and has given a great deal of time and effort to keep it going and make it educational and fun for the members. We occasionally make a special star quilt for an outstanding member and this time it was Nancy's turn. All board members and former board members were given the opportunity to make a block (3", 6", 9") with a white or ecru backing and a brightly colored star. They are very nice blocks some of them are miniatures of 1-1/2" in a set of 4 to make 3". It was a complete surprise for Nancy when the quilt was presented at the July Guild Meeting. The setting is similar to a quilt that was in ModCon recently.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Exhibit at Visions Art Museum in SanDiego 07-21-15
"Amaryllis" Ruth B. McDowell 2014 43"W x 39.5"L
On Saturday I drove to San Diego for the opening reception of the new exhibits. In the main gallery is "Collector's Showcase" with quilts from four different contemporary quilt collectors, including quilts from Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection. One of them is the Ruth McDowell flower above - quite a spectacular quilt, I think. I have yet to talk about it on my blog, but will soon. There are also quilts from collectors Carolyn Mazloomi, Yvonne Porcella and the Brakensiek Collection. http://visionsartmuseum.org/calendar.asp The reception was well attended with about 125 visitors and I had the opportunity to talk about the TCQC quilts that are on display.
It wasn't an easy trip and took me three hours, mostly at less than 40mph! We had the remnants of Hurricane Dolores so there was wind, torrential rain, thunder and lightning. Although I couldn't see the lightning my car radio sputters when it strikes and I was amazed at how much zapping was going on. I thought about turning around and just returning home, but the northbound lanes of the I-5 were just a long parking lot. So, I just kept going along and eventually about Del Mar the traffic became lighter and the rain stopped. I had not made a motel reservation and couldn't find any place that had vacancies, so I decided to drive home after dinner at Ikiru, my favorite sushi restaurant. Dry pavement and moderate traffic resulted in a 1 hour 45min drive, arriving home at 11:15. I was tired, but it was an eventful day and I enjoyed the opening.
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Monday Browsing 07-20-15
I haven't done much browsing so have little to offer. My root canal took up most of my time last week, ice packs and Tylenol and lots of naps.
Adult Coloring books:
Taking pictures as you work:
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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Fiberlandia auction quilt by Deb Cashatt 07-19-15
I was immediately attracted to this piece by the well coordinated "hardware" and fabrics.
Deb designed the circuit board fabric. She says, the fabric is "..based on the gajillion pc boards that I have photographed. I found some sections that I liked; then in Photoshop, I copied/pasted/clone-stamped, rotated, filtered and blended layers together until I had a pattern that will find its way into a shirt for my husband when I find a few extra hours."
"What's Next?" Deb Cashatt 2015 6"W x 8"L
Artist created fabric, commercial fabric, part of a CD player, button, gold paint.
The tag on the right is a label which, of course, didn't show when the quilt was in the matting. I will take it off and sew it on the back when I do a heavier binding and a better label.
Deb says she loves to take things apart and has a nice selection of pieces to use in her designs. These are the buttons one pushes to play a CD player.
No label on this side, but, as I said before, the artists probably expected their little quilts would stay in the matting frames. I'd advise everyone to put some identifying info on whatever they make. Who knows where it might end up? Great quilting on this, I wonder how she keeps such even spirals?
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