More PIQF - Trees 10-21-10

I've been a 'tree hugger' all my life - even before there was a name for such an addiction. When quilts were selected for an exhibit from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection they were able to fill one small gallery with just tree quilts. I was amazed. Here are a few tree quilts from PIQF -2010.

Sorry this is such a poor image of the label on this wonderful quilt - I doctored it as much as I could.

Barbara has used tulle to create shading and (I think) beads to give some sparkle.

This is an interesting quilt - she has used just about every technique she knew to embellish it. Dijanne Cevaal of Australia and Europe has used the bleaching process to create trees for a decade or so. "Forest II" in the TCQC is on my blog at
http://delquilts.blogspot.com/2008/09/quilts-from-tcqg-09-23-08.html

 

A wonderful abstraction of a bamboo grove.

Here is another abstraction - this one of a forest renewal after fire. So beautiful.

I've noticed that many of the blogs with pictures of PIQF '10 include this lovely quilt - aspens are high up on my list. It seems to me that each year there are more quilts created in this format - like snapshots in an album.

More PIQF Quilts 10-24-08

[Note: I have added information to Franki Kohler's quilt posted 10-22-08]

The Pacific International Quilt Festival has entry categories, of course, but it also shows a variety of quilts which are not included in the judging. According to the program there were seventeen special exhibits including selected quilts from the "World Quilt Competition". Always a highlight for me! Here are a few quilts from that exhibit that I think are special.

I was attracted to this quilt by the way the triptych fits together and by the color. It has a lot of embellishment that can't been seen until viewed close up. I love quilts that say one thing from a distance and something more in the details. http://www.janetcook.co.uk/

I think the color in this quilt is wonderful, but it doesn't translate very well to my computer screen, perhaps better to yours. I like the closeup views framed and superimposed on a view of the whole forest.

This is a charming quilt and it is impeccably made. Perfect stitches, smooth applique and piecing, machine quilting that flows with the design and it hangs square and flat.

What a perfect little mouse (shrew?), with his sparkling eye he looks ready to jump off the quilt and run across the floor.

The same with this little fellow. Although this is not the kind of quilt I collect I would absolutely love to have it on my wall so I could examine it in detail time after time. http://www.kayhaerland.com/

The undersides of the mushrooms here and in the bottom picture are done with the 'chenille' cutting method making the mushrooms look very real.