DEL QUILTS

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

My laptop is going into the computer hospital, maybe for three days. I can read e-mail on my phone, but not send. However, I do have the iPod mini which, so far, I can turn on, turn off and charge! Maybe this will force me to learn how to use it. At any rate, I will not be posting on my blog until later in the week. Love, Del-at-home

Monday Browsing 02-03-14

Luana Rubin has posted images she took at the Tokyo Quilt Show. Also, shots of the snow monkeys in Nagano, Japan, and some of the Sandy Hook Memorial quilts. http://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin

Furoshiki - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74Dwe2BDFw

These don’t seem “mind-blowing” to me, but some will come in handy, if I can only remember them when I need to:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/mind-blowing-tricks-every-iphone-and-ipad-user-should-know

Earthscape Artist:   http://www.andresamadorarts.com/
http://www.viralnova.com/beach-art/

Gwen Marston has a large exhibit showing in Michigan, you can see it online:
http://lomeranger.zenfolio.com/gwenmarston
Hear Gwen’s lecture here:
http://thelittleredhen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/01/gwennys-lecture-.html
“Little Red Hen” also posted about Gwen’s Sketches book:
http://thelittleredhen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/37-sketches.html

Bees like we have never seen them – beautiful!   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/140114-bee-native-macro-photography-insects-science/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=pom_20140202&utm_campaign=Content
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Aileyn Ecob 12 x 12 quilt in TCQC 02-02-14

In October 2013 I had so much going on in my life that I didn't post the 12" x 12" quilts I purchased from the Studio Art Quilt Associates online fundraising auction. This is the first of a series until I have shown all of them. .

I know Aileyn from classes at Empty Spools Seminars at Asliomar in Pacific Grove, CA, She does impeccable hand applique and exacting technical finishing on her quilts. The background color in this image is more true than in the rest of the pictures - grey, not blue.

Just one leaf with a slight shadow. Don't know why the background is blue in this pix.

I like the piping on two sides, this detail is at lower right

And a great rocky fabric on the back.

I saw this quilt on the auction site and thought how great it was to see an image similar to one I had taken at Bishop Creek in the Eastern Sierra. I had forgotten that Aileyn had asked me if she could use the photo as inspiration and I didn't realize her source until I read the label - then I remembered. I think she did a great job and I am especially happy to have it as part of TCQC.

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Road to California - last seven quilts 01-31-14

Here are the last seven quilts I photographed at Road to CA on Friday.

This is right up there at the top of my favorites. Patt has a great talent and a good eye for what works. Her painting is wonderful and her thread painting is spot-on. I somehow failed to take a picture of the sign, so I worked up poor replacement.

Any experienced birder could identify this as a snow bunting.

This is a poor image of this quilt made of 1" finished squares of hundreds of different fabrics.

I found it just awesome in it's color - it almost shimmered.

. I had just had a discussion about Baltimore Album quilts when I came across this one. It is just "in the style of, but with original tropical blocks rather than copies of old designs

I've seen such amazing quilts started in Susan Carlson's classes. And every finished one is a knock-out.

Here is another Baltimore Album, done in the traditional, but with not quite traditional

blocks. Great autumn colors, very nice quilting.

I like this bird block (of course), but the main reason I snapped it is that I could get the camera close enough since it is in the lower right hand corner of the quilt. Road still bars viewers from getting close to the quilts by putting up strips of clear plastic about three feet in front of each quilt.