Opening of Ruth B. McDowell quilt exhibit at VAM 01-18-20

And not a single picture to show!

I was so busy greeting people and giving the one hour tour of the exhibit that I didn't even think of pictures!  But I will be at the museum tomorrow and will photograph whatever I can.  

There were a lot of people there tonight.  Someone said they counted 53 when we first got started, but more and more people came until it was very packed.  With all the people and the lights they had to turn on the A/C!  

I did a lot of hugging, hand shaking, rubbing shoulders with people I haven't seen much in the last six months and met many new people.  My memory for names has never been good and at my advanced and feeble age, I cannot remember anyone's name.  So, if you were there, just remind me when we meet again.  

I thank Cristie and Cecil McQuire for sponsoring the catalog which is for sale in the museum gift shop.  Cristie is a Ruth fan and we were in a class one year at Empty Spools.  

After dinner at Ikiru with my friend Beth, I returned to the Holiday Inn Express where I usually stay when I am in SDiego. It has been remodeled since I was last here and the clerk said it was done six months ago.  It seems that I have stayed here in the last six months, but he must know.  

More tomorrow with pictures, I hope. 

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Friday Food A memory from 2014 01-17-20

Dinner at The Mill restaurant in Marion, Indiiana,  07-18-14

They serve open face "gourmet hamburgers".  This is the "Goober" - hamburger patty on Texas Toast topped with bacon, peanut butter and mayo (on the side).  The diner thought it was good.

 I stuck to something I know.  The "California Burger" has Texas Toast, burger patty, mozzarella, tomato and avocado.  It was delicious but I ate it all and was uncomfortable.

Another of my table mates had a lovely salad and a quesadilla - also delicious.

One thing a blog does is allow one to look back to events of the past.  Including meals of note.  This was a group of quilters who went out to dinner in Marion, Indiana, when Ruth B. McDowell was inducted into the Quilters' Hall of Fame in 2014.  Doesn't seem that long ago.  

The exhibit of some of Ruth's quilts was a thrill as the quilts were borrowed from collectors and from her family members and there were quite a few I had not seen before.  

It was a great road trip and a festive event.  

Pictures at: 

https://delquilts.blogspot.com/2014/07/road-trip-indiana-gallery-walk-with.html

https://delquilts.blogspot.com/2014/07/quilters-hall-of-fame-reception-07-16-14.html

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Wordless Wednesday 01-15-20

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Another Ruth B. McDowell quilt 01-14-20

Here is a Ruth B. McDowell quilt that will not be in the exhibit at Visions Art Museum.   When we did the layout on paper there just wasn't enough wall space to show all 35 Ruth quilts in TCQC.  So there are eight of her quilts that will stay at home!  Still special quilts, just not enough room. 

"Sap Buckets"  Ruth B. McDowell  2011  54"W X 49"L

Commercial cotton fabrics, hand dyes, cotton batting and thread.  Machine pieced and quilted. 

This depicts the old traditional method of tapping maple trees for sap to make maple syrup.  Lovely blue shadows against the snow and interesting prints to compose the tree bark. 

It makes me feel cold to look at it! 

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Starting a new project 01-13-20

How can it be?  I have dozens and dozens of unfinished projects in bags, baskets, boxes and on the wall!  I have always been awed by people who do just one project at a time and either finish it or get rid of it.  Not something I seem to be able to do.  I get the urge to do some cutting or designing or even put something up on the design wall and I just have to do it.  But other things are pressing on my time and I know I cannot spend time creating another project.  This time I rescued some pieces, passed on by someone who was no longer quilting, that have lived on a shelf in my garage for, I suppose, decades.  I ripped out what I suppose were 5" prairie points, pressed them and cut them to 2.5" x 4.75".  All lovely autumn leaf colors (rust, orange, red, gold, purple, even some pink), a lovely selection.  What to put with them in a jelly roll style quilt"  I cut 114 yellow/gold strips and cut those into half.  Now they have moved into a plastic bag while I get back to what I should be doing. 

Autumn Flash  in progress. 

I know it will call to me and I may not be able to resist.  It is one of those projects I cannot picture in my mind.  So the only way to know what it will look like is to sew it together.  Soon, I hope. 

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Exhibit of Ruth B. McDowell quilts from TCQC 01-12-20

"Amaryllis"  Ruth B. McDowell 2014  39,5L X 43"W

Cotton fabric, batting, and Thread.  

Machine pieced and quilted. 

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Saturday, January 18, 2020 from 5pm to 7pm there will be an opening reception for the winter exhibits 

at Visions Art Museum,2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92106

Included is an exhibit of 27 Ruth B. McDowell quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.  

The exhibits will continue until April 5, 2020.

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