Quilts at PIQF - Part 2 10-17-18

This first quilt was not a prize winner, but I think it should have been.  It is much more interesting than any of the prize winners, except for maybe the rhodie!   It was hard to photograph because there were so many ladies looking at and admiring it.  The white glove lady had studied it and was glad to point out the interesting details - she really LOVED this quilt.   The theme of the juried quilts was "That'll be the day......"

Although I took several pictures this is the only one that didn't have some portion of a body in it.

The four-patch flowers were all a little different in shape and color.  And such wonderful blend of colors. 

Each center was different and this closeup shows the crystals in the center. 

The back was almost as wonderful as the front. 

Very intricate and detailed. 

I almost didn't get the beading along the edge - at the very top of this picture of the back. 

Again the beading is at the top of the picture.   Very subtle. 

A very effective  use of this collage technique and she has chosen great fabrics. 

The other corners read Senate, House, and White House Staff

WOW!  What a background with leaves. 

I have always admired Cynthia's quilts, but have never seen anything like this.  Later I will post a picture of another quilts she had in this show, very different and more what I have seen of her work before.  

Always very realistic quilts from Laura.  Look how she has manipulated the threads to make the individual plants look realistic.  And the great color choices. 

Of course, I like it because it is yellow.  But I am impressed with the circular quilting. 

Great detail; boats, buildings, landmarks, and sea lions.

Great sunflower.

A new technique, or at least one I have not seen before.  

How sad that this quilt was folded , probably to ship, and has the ugly fold lines across it.  It would have helped if it had been folded face out.   I think this is the only big prize winner that isn't covered with glue on crystals or beads.   

This was first place in Australia.  Again, a lovely yellow quilt.

All these little seed looking things are printed and then quilted around. 

Very effective piecing.

Great Monarchs for all my butterfly loving friends.  Don't know how she did the dots, but they appear to be cut from lace edging of some kind.  

I have photographed some of the artist's quilts at previous PIQF shows.  Check in the right sidebar for Barbara Confer, Pat Durbin, Laura Fogg, and Bernadette Mayr. 

More tomorrow night and perhaps Friday, too. 

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Quilts at PIQF - 10-16-18

I haven't made much progress on editing today.  It always takes so much time to get ready for a trip and, it seems, almost as much time to put everything away when I get back.  So, I'll post what I can tonight and more later.  

I take pictures of what appeals to me and also what I think others will like to see.  I'm sure if you Google PIQF or Pacific International Quilt Festival 2018, you will find a number of blogs showing what appealed to those bloggers.  I know I will look too.  

I found this description on the Internet:  

Boro (Japanese for tattered rags) and Sashiko (little stabs) are decorative Japanese repairing stitches that are not meant to be hidden but to enhance the fault. Traditionally white cotton thread is used on indigo blue cloth which is said to recall snow falling around old farmhouses.

Can you see the repair?

Mostly the beads and crystals do not show in the photographs.  Sorry/.

I repeated this last one so I can have all the pictures together. 

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The long drive home 10-15-18

I don't mind the drive down I-5, but it does seem to get longer each time I do it!  The weather was lovely, there wasn't much traffic until I was over the mountains into the LA basin, and everything went smoothly.   There has been a Santa Ana wind blowing since last night and there is a lot of debris from trees on the local streets, but no problems in my neighborhood.  I picked up KoKo from the KoKo keeper about 4:30pm.  I'm sure he has been indulged while I was gone and he put his nose in the air when I gave him his dinner.  Eventually he ate it, we took a little nap and at 7:30p we went for our walk.  Back to everyday life.

I'm always showing pictures of orchards and blossoms and vineyards along I-5, but most of it is very desolate and dry and rather boring.  Tonight here are some images of the dull truth of I-5!

These first two pictures are poor quality, but just above Kettleman City there has been a very large grass fire on the west side of the highway.  I didn't put down the window and got a lot more reflection of my "seat basket" than I thought I would.  But through the images of my "stuff" you can see that the fire burned right to the horizon

Since it appeared to have started at the edge of the pavement, I suppose someone threw a cigarette butt out their window and drove off leaving devastation behind. 

This is a typical view... for miles and miles.  

Lots of electric towers to carry power through the central valley. 

And endless lines of trucks carrying goods everywhere. 

The farmers plead their case with signs all along the miles.  The most common one asks the question, "Is growing food wasting water?"

Approaching Buttonwillow truck stop where there is both a Starbuck's and an ARCO station.  But I didn't stop today.  

Further south, past the gas station and motel at Grapevine, the road goes up through the section of road known as the grapevine.  It isn't as curvy as it was sixty years ago when I first drove it, but with the slow trucks and the hotshot car drivers one must keep alert.  The trucks are going about 25mph and the hotshots are trying for 90mph.  Note that all the tree growth is on the right side, or the west side of the canyon which gets less sun than the east.

 High on the top of the hills on the right there are pine trees growing.

Long lines of trucks going north and the blue sky, cleared by the high winds so there is no smog today. 

It was a seven hour drive with three potty stops.  Not bad. 

I'll work on the  PIQF photos tomorrow and hope to post tomorrow night.  

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One winning quilt at PIQF NFS 10-14-18

I spent the day at Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, CA, trying to see all of the quilts.  After I got back to Mary's and looked at the catalog I realized I had missed a row or two.  One day is not long enough to see everything and I didn't even stroll the vendor aisles.   Here are images of one amazing quilt that won a ribbon.  By far, my favorite quilt in the show. 

As you can see it took 1st place int he Innovative category.

"My Rhodie"  Andrea Brokenshire - TX  54" X 46"

DETAIL from left side about midway. 

DETAIL  Center of main blosssom. 

Background foliage, I think this is bottom right.  

There were some spectacular quilts, heavily long-arm quilted and strewn with glued on crystals.  I will edit the images after I return to Placentia and post more on my blog.  

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