Terese May quilt from the SAQA online 2023 Auction 11-26-23

 

I won the bid on six quilts at the online SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) auction.  One I gave to a friend who had admired it and who loves cats and  cat  images.  I did not photograph it before I  gave  it to her, so I copied  this from the  SAQA website.  Therese May is an art  quilter of long standing and lives  in the  Bay Area of California.  She started  using  paint on her  quilts before most artists  had thought of it.    Her  work is very individual  and unique in the quilt world.  

"Mental Health Cats"   Therese May -  California  12"X12"

Various fabrics, cotton batting and back.  Painted, Pieced, machine quilted. 

Therese's  Artist's Statement: "I truly believe that if we all could just pay attention to our mental health, there could be peace on earth."

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Thanksgiving 2023

 Have you had enough turkey?  I found these in my photo files.  I know there are more, but the "search for" feature won't search for turkey and doesn't seem to think a turkey is a  bird!       Hope you had just the Thanksgiving you wanted.

This was done using an app called "Scribbler" which I really enjoyed, but it seems to have disappeared.

A fine specimen of domestic turkey.

Another good looking guy.

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This is a calligraphy turkey - not much meat!

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Apparently not by looks.

Cute quilted guy. Too cute to eat if it  was  real!

Hm-m-m-m, Cold Turkey?

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Happy Thanksgiving 11-22-23

It is a day to be thankful and I thank you for following my blog.  It helps keep me out of the  doldrums to know there are  kind people out there who will  expect me to write. One never knows how  much a kind word or action can have a positive effect  on another person.  As an example......

On Wednesday and  Sunday  KoKo and I go to my favorite Starbuck's for a latte and sometimes  a breakfast sandwich.  The employees change frequently, but some stay  long  enough  that  they remember  us.  And back in July my latte came with this  lid. It had not been a good day and this little recognition of our  existence   was a great boost.

Today an employee I don't know  decorated the lid with a turkey who has both beak and mouth. I wonder if she has ever seen a live turkey. Or this could be  a  lady in a fancy bonnet with it  tied under her chin.  A  pilgrim lady.

Anyway, these little points of connection are especially welcome and helpful in our current fraught world.  Share some kindness everyday.

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Surfside Quilters Guild 11-16-23

Tuesday was the BIG day for Surfside Quilters  Guild.  November Fest is our semi-annual fund raiser, the finale of 12 months of planning, sewing, organizing, etc..  So many of our almost 200 members were involved in some aspect of the event. It not only provides funds for programs, philanthropy, and operating expenses, it builds new friendships, teaches us new skills, and promotes quilting and knowledge of our guild to the public.  It was a fun day and financially successful.

Since I am the photographer for the guild there are few pictures of me, but someone insisted. Elizabeth Geer is seated at the piano, she is one of three or four  members who play before the meeting and during the break. She is a very active member and chaired the Raffle Basket committee for November Fest.

Susan Ritschel was the Nov Fest Coordinator who worked all year with the various   committees to make it all come together. Behind her is one of the Live Auction quilts made by Cathie Opila.

Another quilt by Cathie Opila.

I had then winning bid for this one.

A bright quilt made by Nancy Ota.

This is the quilt I wanted most of all and it is mine!!!

I was  high bidder for two more which I will post another day.

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Cynthia Corbin quilt (1994) from TCQC 11-19-23

Still having problems with the space bar which is too frustrating for me.  Eight or more strokes to make a space!   So, here is a rerun from  August 2021.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Sunday again and here is another quilt from TCQC.   This is one of twelve that I purchased in the last century.  Doesn't that sound odd?  I started collecting contemporary quilts (now called art quilts) in 1985 but didn't have a lot of extra money and then life got in the way for about a decade.  So, all but twelve quilts have been added since 2000.  This piece is one of the very early additions and I am still glad I bought it and enjoy having it hanging some times.

                          

"Absolutes"  Cynthia Corbin  1994  35"W x 56"L

Machine pieced and quilted.  Cotton fabric, thread, batting.

www.CynthiaCorbin.com

 

I met Cynthia Corbin at Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar.  We were in a couple Ruth McDowell classes together in the early 1990s.  I admired her work then and still do today, but have never added another of her quilts to the Collection. I believe this was started in one of Ruth's Symmetry classes and the "border" was added after Cynthia was home in her studio.  I love the addition of brown in the border and those swirling "ribbons" pop out the center panel and add a lot of motion to the composition.  Cynthia lives in the Seattle area.

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Friday Food 11-17-23

 

Sue Benner quilt from Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection 11-12-23

Sue Benner has just returned home from teaching at Art Quilt  Tahoe and has been posting pictures  of the landscape and of her students work. I am in love with this photo of a sunset  over the lake.  It made me hang one of her quilts that is in  TCQC.  Such amazing photos and quilts she creates. 

I haven't  posted this quilt  since Sep 2019 and this is a "reprint" of that long ago post. 

"Marsh #22" quilt by Sue Benner 09-22-19

This is one of the newer quilts in the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.  I bought it from Sue last year after she showed it unfinished to her class at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, AZ.   I thought I had already posted it here, but cannot find it anywhere. 

It is part of her series "Marsh" and joins "Marsh #11" which I added to the Collection in 2001.  Odd that I should have both #11 and #22.  Guess I'll have to watch for #33!

"Marsh #22" Sue Benner - Texas  2018  46"W x 15"L

Hand painted fabrics by the artist, fused, cotton batting, machine quilted. 

The color in these pictures is brighter than the actual quilt, but I can't seem to adjust it very much; it is more misty and mysterious.  I have enjoyed having it hanging on the wall in the family room where I see it off and on all day.  And I see different things in it at different times.  Sometimes it does indeed resemble marshes, but also cities on water, sunset or sunrise on the ocean, views in the mesas and valleys of the desert....  I find it very peaceful, very calming.  

Detail of left side.

Detail of right side.

Title and signature on back.  Always in gold paint. 

www.subenner.com

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