With so many quilts in exhibits or traveling with exhibits I am so lucky to still have lots of quilts to enjoy on my walls. Several are "works in progress", such as the yellow strip quilt, but there are spaces for some from TCQC.
Pamela Allen's "Getting My Ducks In a Row" doesn't travel often because of the dangling lines of beads that can become twisted or (horror) broken. But I enjoy it on the wall facing the door to the back bedroom. Just the right size and light colored to show up in the dark hall.
"Getting My Ducks in a Row" Pamela Allen - Ontario, Canada 2005 33"W x 46"L
And a detail image showing some of the beading. In the upper right corner are clouds with strings of beads to show rain falling. And on the top right you can see her beaded blue hair, again the beads dangle on strings.
Pamela's Artist's statement: "I had been feeling glum after a string of sad events, when my little grandson gave me a picture of a duck he had drawn. Seemed like a signal to me to get on with life, so I enlarged his drawing and this quilt was born."
This is what I posted about it here on 09-25-08:
This quilt 'spoke to me' the minute I saw it. The color, the balanced design, the intense quilting, the "get on w/life" aspect and those lovely skeleton ducks across the bottom. My only hesitation was about the embellishments. The clouds in the sky are raining strings of beads and the lady's hair is also strings of beads. They are perfect for this quilt. However, I do trunk programs and ship quilts to museums and galleries, which is very hard on embellishments. The quilts in the collection are rolled, covered and stored on shelves, except for those for which I need to invent special storage. Now I have an archival box large enough to store this quilt and a few others flat, unfortunately it still hasn't found a permanent place in my house! But soon.
Pamela's quilts are so individual, unlike any others I have seen - this is one of several in the Collection. I doubt that at my age I could loosen up enough to imitate her, but I have signed up for a class. It will help me understand her methods and it might even teach me how to play.
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