Road to California #3 01-28-14

Four more quilts that caught my eye at Road. 

 

 

This quilt is very much in a style that Nancy Crow worked some years ago.  It has wonderful color and the black cuts on the white cuts on the black  strips/white strips make it fresh and crisp. 

 

Fabulous color.  I think she sewed long strips together and then cut them in segments. The only problem I have with this quilt is that I don't see how it can be called "Modern Pieced", it is very much like so many quilts I have seen over the past twenty years or so. 

David Taylor has done it again - made a fabulous quilt with exacting applique and amazing quilting.  It does look like a painting to me.

 Each little appliqued feather looks like a brush stroke.

 

The white glove lady held up the corner so I could take a picture of the back.  Beautiful leaves and vines.  He changes the bobbin thread when he changes the top thread, creating a "ghost" of the image on the back.

This great portrait was created by my friend Nancy Ota.  She is so talented, all of her quilts are outstanding in design and technical expertise.  This is so much her grandson - a great little guy.

 

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Road to California Part 2 01-26-14

I have six quilts to show you this evening.  I did not take as many pictures as I usually do, I just didn't see that many quilts that "grabbed" me. Each of these has something that did.

 

Maybe a hot house on a hot day! This is such a fun quilt, I especially like the very tall flowers.

 

Wonderful idea to make negative space to show quilting designs.  This is something our foremothers knew about, leaving large solid fabric blocks to show the quilting.  The perky little bluebirds are charming. 

 

Colorful, well balanced, interesting from a distance and also up close - something I always look for in a quilt or a painting. .

 

I love Bird of Paradise quilts - they are such an expression of the individual quiltmaker.  This one is particularly colorful against the white background.

And look what she has done in the background - awesome and perfect.

Very effective - it truly looks three dimensional.  What a lot of thought and work she has put into this one.  And it isn't a very large piece - maybe 36"wide and 30"long.

Amazing detail - look at the pampas grass on the left and those tiny stones.

I agree that this is a "modern" sampler - the coloring and the festive colors.  It was made by my friend Jan Hirth, whose quilts are always exquisitely made with hand applique and beautifully finished.

 

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Road to California pictures 01-25-14

Right inside the door to the show floor are the top winning quilts.  This one by Sharon Schamber is an impressive technical achievement - gorgeous applique and awesome quilting.

 

 

 

 

 

Blogger is fighting me over the pictures, so I will try posting more tomorrow.  Maybe it will be in a better mood.