Showing posts with label Luana Rubin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luana Rubin. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2020

Monday Browsing 06-22-20

In the past I have used the Monday post to list sites of interest - I least I think they are interesting!  I haven't browsed much the last six months, too much news gets in the way.  But there is a lot of content due to the limitations of actual quilt museum visits, quilt shows, etc.   Here are just a few online features that you might find of interest.


SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) Textile Talks:


Shipping art quilts a video  with SAQA's Bill Riemer:
https://www.facebook.com/100008080862979/posts/2664401377172532/?sfnsn=mo


Ruth de Vos, an Australian quiltmaker talks about and shows her method, which is similar to that of Ruth B. McDowell.  This video is over an hour long, but I found it fascinating to see how this Ruth works,  especially with her hand crank sewing machine!   One of her large quilts is in TCQC, check her name in the right sidebar. 


Info and bio on a famous African American quilter: 


International Quilt Museum and Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska:
Many pages of quils and information about what may be the largest collection of quilts in the world.  Traditional, Art, Modern, International, Old, and New - they have everything. I subscribe to the Quilt of the Month and delight in the great variety of quilts they have featured over the years.  Check out "Quilt of the Month" files.  


 This comes from Luana Rubin of eQuilter.  Nice exhibit with meaning.  In case you missed the Virtual Exhibit Opening of "For the Love of Gaia" last week (I am a guest curator for the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln NE for this project) here is a link to the video recording - Enjoy!

And a textile artist using a different tool and method:

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Tuesday Browsing 11-20-19

I don't seem to find time for much browsing these days, but Luanna Rubin of eQuilter always keeps us updated on quilt shows around the world.  Here is her latest from Quilt Festival in Houston, TX.



She also has two interviews with Jacqueline de Jonge

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Monday, August 19, 2019

Looking at quilts 08-19-19

Brenda Gael Smith of Australia posted this album of winners at the Australian Modern Quilt Show:

Luana Rubin has posted a commentary on what is new and upcoming in quilts.  If you have an hour the quilts are interesting and the dialog is in both English and French:

Luana Rubin has also posted pictures from several 2019 international quilt shows.  Check out her Flicker pages at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/albums0
She hasn't finished the pictures from Birmingham 2019 - soon!

I have pictures that I took at the Quilt Museum in La Conner, WA, but I haven't edited them. 

 This was Mabel's favorite, a very striking image.  

And this was mine.  I'm bothered that the zippers were not mentioned in the materials used, they are such a major part of the design.




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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Monday browsing and KoKo 02-05-19

Not much browsing going on at my house, I am still hassling with my new laptop.  But I know that Luana Rubin has posted images from the huge Tokyo Quilt Festival and they are worth a browse or two.  Each year the crowds get bigger and the quilts are more fantastic.  Check it out:

Our six days of on again, off again rain seems to be over until the weekend.  It has added huge amounts of snow to the Sierra where most of our piped water comes from and it has allowed the weeds to grow again after the years of drought.  Don't know if that is a good thing or not, but it is very nice to see all the green. 

We have had good luck finding non-rainy spaces of time to go for our two daily walks.  We have gotten damp a few times, but not soaked.  Here is the little guy checking out a flow from someones front yard just after the rain stopped.  You can see the grey clouds in the background and yet there is sunshine on the houses at the end of the street.  
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Monday, August 13, 2018

Monday Browsing 08-13-18

Still not finding much time for browsing - life gets in the way!  I am still sorting, but have slowed down a lot since delivering a carload to the Visions Veranda Sale which took place in San Diego last weekend.   Sent a box with some things to a small group in Washington State and have a few things to take to Surfside Quilters Guild tomorrow.   Discovered that the Flying Geese QGuild Little Red Hen sale will not be held this fall, but instead in October 2019.  Don't know where I could store things for them until then.  Re-thinking!

Do check out Luana Rubin's Flicker pages.  She takes pictures at quilt shows around the world and shows some fantastic quilts.   Road2CA for 2018 is at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/albums/72157665000997788
The album page shows all the albums she has posted:
She has just returned from the huge European show in Birmingham, England, and it will take her a couple weeks to post those pictures.  Check back.

KoKo needs to sleep where I am sorting thread.  He is no help at all. 
See his "chewy" in the upper right corner, he tried to bury it in the thread!
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Monday, July 16, 2018

Monday Browsing 07-16-18

Do you receive the Friends of Festival e-zine?  It is a free "newsletter" that comes from the people at Quilt Festival in Houston.  I'm not sure this link will work, but give it a try, there are some interesting articles in this issue. 
https://mailchi.mp/quilts/read-the-summer-friendsfestival-e-zine?e=6111cf14dc

And another reminder to check out Luana Rubin's pictures from quilt shows around the world.           https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/   

 The exhibits at Visions Art Museum in San Diego will include work by Rita Zerull.  Here is a newspaper article about her and her creations.
         http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-rita-zerull-20180709-story.html

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Quilt shows with Luana Rubin

Luana Rubin and her husband run eQuilter.com and Luana  travels the world to visit quilt shows and events.  She takes terrific pictures and posts them for all to see.  You can visit Tokyo, Houston, France, and many more.  Currently up are pictures from the Canadian show and they are fabulous.  Check them out at   https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/with/41828508705/

And when you are done, look at all the other images she has posted.  Do you have a year?
Friends Baltimore Square  by Kerry Burke  Photo by Luana Rubin. 

Izzy  by Anne Mathers  Photo by Luana Rubin
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Last SQG Newsletter done 04-24-18

I have done my last newsletter for Surfside Quilters Guild and sent it to be proof read.  I am already missing it!  Nothing on my May calendar for the creation or publishing of the newsletter - looks rather blank!   But I am hoping to go on a road trip to visit friends in the Pacific Northwest - Washington and Oregon.  So, that will fill up that space.  

This weekend I will drive up to Pacific Grove to pick up the Bird quilts that have been hanging at Back Porch Fabrics.  KoKo will stay with Dee Jacobs where he is always happy.  My sincere and deepest appreciation to Dee! 

Have you looked at Luanna Rubin's pictures from the Tokyo Quilt Festival?  There are some truly amazing quilts.  Check it out at: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/sets/72157692101929794
Click on the quilt image for further info, not available for all.  The Little Women quilts are a special exhibit.

You might also enjoy looking at some of the quilts in the collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.:
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-quilt-museum

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Keeping quilt/textile organizations alive 03-16-13

Here is a commentary from Luana Rubin of eQuilter that I copied from their e-mail ad today. I don't know that it settles anything in my mind about supporting SJCMoQandT, but it is food for thought. I was a contributor to the Tentmakers of Cairo film funding project and regularly support other textile and quilt organizations. I definitely don't have eighty grand to rescue SJCMoQandT, but I will make a donation and encourage others to do so. As Luana says, "..even $5 helps." Deciding which organization to help with the $5 is a hard decision. My involvement with Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts and Textiles is well known and I encourage others to support this outstanding venue for the quilts being made today. www.visionsartmuseum.org They are holding their own, but it takes a lot of strategic planning and penny pinching. If you hold dear the place of quilts and quiltmaking in your life, give a little, or a lot, to help worthy organizations over this yawning funding gap.
Del Thomas, Placentia, CA
Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection
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From eQuilter e-mail ad:
Lately I've been working with board members of various organizations, brainstorming how to raise funds so they can upgrade equipment, attract new members, and thrive without constant financial stress.

As I mentioned last week, I am working with SAQA and Andover Fabrics on a fundraising design project.

I accepted an invitation a few months ago to sit on the development committee of the Boulder Philharmonic, and it has been interesting to look at the fundraising topic from another angle.

Recently crowd-funding has been a popular and usually successful way to raise funds for projects, such as the recent (successful!) fundraiser for the Tentmakers of Cairo documentary.

Yesterday Karey Bresenhan posted a very humble plea for support to raise $ on Indiegogo for the Texas Quilt Museum to buy a new projector system so they can host programs at the Museum. (see my blog for this post) A smart investment for TQM!

Just this morning I received a enewsletter from the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, that they are in need of emergency funds. I hope they will get a crowd-funding page up soon so we can all pitch in whatever amount is possible!

I really respect and admire those who sit on these boards, and who try to figure out how the heck to raise money to keep these organizations afloat. Raising membership fees or ticket prices is not always the answer - if you lose members because of the higher fees, then you are right back in the same hole.So I just wanted to salute those who are working so hard behind the scenes, (as volunteers mostly!) to keep all the museums, non-profits, quilt exhibits, conferences, and other events in the black - i.e. with balanced budgets. It is not only our lawmakers who struggle with this issue!

Our Wonderful World of Quilting is a microcosm, and our leaders are privately wrestling with the same budget issues that the politicians are wrestling with publicly in the Macrocosm.

If you have a moment to visit one of those crowd-funding pages, remember that even $5 helps, if 1000 people each give $5 or whatever they can afford. These organizations are incredibly rich sources of creative inspiration and technical design information for all of us, so your $5, $10, $50 or more will give you a rich return on your investment. I am going to go make a donation right now!

Tuesday night I will be writing to you from a textile show in Las Vegas.

sharing your Passion for Fabric...
Luana and Paul [Rubin - of eQuilter]
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And a picture as a reward (or punishment) for reading this far.  Del


"Four Dwellings" Del Thomas  2005  24“ Sq.   Machine pieced and quilted.  Cotton fabrics.
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