More from PIQF...

Here's another round of quilts... from Traditional to Ultra-Contemporary... all of them Fabuloso!! Note... you can click on any photo for a larger view, and some of them are very worth seeing in an enlarged format because of their immense detail. Enjoy!

"African Safari", by Mary O. E. Fury... (One of my favorites because it reminds me of the work of my favorite quilt artist, Nancy Crow.)

Detail...

"Baskets of Stars", by Sue Glass...

"Wild Child", by Jan Hutchison...

Detail... These detail pictures are not the true colors in the quilt. I purposely amplified the color to better display the mind-blowing amount of detail in the long-arm machine quilting... truly awesome!

"Mi Amor", by Margarete Heinisch... 

More awesome quilting detail... this one all done by hand...

"AHA" Epiphany", by Gail Sena...

"Baltimore Revisited", by Beverly Schizvoni...

"Succotash In Blue", by Ann E. Rauen...

"Dresden Flower Garden", by Nicole Pullman...

"California Missions", by Patricia Pardoen...  (Loved this quilt! The missions have been very dear to my heart since I was a very young child... their mystery and romance of the Old West, and all that stuff!)

Detail - Santa Barbara Mission...

Detail - San Francisco Mission...

"New Directions" by Vivienne Moore...

"Circles: A Study In the Round", by Pat Nelson...

"Green Cheese", by Joan Dyer...

Detail...

White Glove Lady, California Style...

Still more to come... y'all come back, now!

Janice Gunner - Shibori Work

Janice Gunner was my teacher for three days at PIQF this year. She was a terrific teacher, and I had a marvelous time working with her. One of her specialties, which she unfortunately didn't get to teach this time around, is Shibori. She creates her own hand-dyed indigo Shibori fabrics using stitched and wrapped resist techniques, and then uses them in exceptional wall quilts, sometimes by themselves; sometimes combined with vintage Japanese kimono fabrics.

She is the author of this book...

...and I hope, one day, to be able to explore some of the exciting techniques presented herein. A long-standing dream of mine is to turn one of our garages into a wet studio for the purpose of doing fabric dying and painting, and Shibori is definitely on my bucket list of techniques I want to learn.

One of the special exhibits at this year's show was a collection of Janice's Shibori pieces, and I'm going to devote an entire post to showing you her wonderful work.

African Odyssey II

Sea Study V

Detail of Quilting

    

Heat Wave (One Day In May!)

Detail of Quilting

Japan Studies  I - IV

The following four quilts are part of Janice's "Interactive" series. The backgrounds have been printed with conventional screen printing inks, which were then over printed with thermo-chromic (heat-sensitive) pigments that either intensify or disappear when heated. In your typical quilt show, touching the quilts is a sin punishable by severe reprimands from indignant "White Glove Ladies" (who are the only ones who can "legally" touch the quilts). With these particular quilts, though, viewers were, in fact, INVITED to touch the quilts, by resting their hands on certain areas of the quilts for 30 seconds and watch the results... It was quite amazing, and amusing!

Hot Spots

Blue Bamboo

X Marks the Spot

Poppies I

More quilts and One-Quilter exhibits coming soon...!

PIQF - Day 2

I had a fabulous time in class today... so utterly fabulous and busy I didn't get any pictures taken and, since I worked through the lunch hour and on for quite a while after class was over, I didn't even get down to the show. That's saying something for me, since I hate to miss a minute of the show. There are so many quilts to see, not to mention vendors to visit. I'm being very good this year re the vendors... the only ones who've gotten any of my business are Just Imagination, Barb's Elegant Designs and Cherrywood Fabrics. Ananse Village will see me on Sunday before I leave, but not before! That is a far too dangerous booth for me to visit casually!

I very nearly finished the quilt top I was working on in class today - at least I have enough of it done to make a presentable showing at the Show & Tell party tomorrow evening. I was really working in my element today... putting a major dent in my stash of African fabrics and constructing a free-form piece. If I work my tail off when I get home, I think I can have it ready for Vallejo Open Studios on November 10 & 11.

Tomorrow is the last day of classes  ~8-(   I'll be working with Janice Gunner again, this time putting together a piece in a style she calls, "Contemporary Patchwork with Free Form Piecing." What is it? I haven't a clue, but I know I'll be free form piecing with more African fabrics, so maybe I'll wind up with two pieces I can ram together for Open Studios.

Here are some more pictures from the show... enjoy!

"Doormats #1", by Marcia DeCamp...

"Point of Departure", by Lisa Bowles...

"Tibetan Mandala - For Wisdom & Compassion", by Barbara E. Lies...

"Kwanzaa Ladies", by Allison Allen...

"Split 9-Patch", by Allison Allen...

"All Dat Jazz", by Allison Allen...

"Something About A Truck", by Candy Brown...

"Windy", by Janeene Herchold...

"Ineluctable Quiddity", by Nancy Knoles...

"All That Jazz", by Mary Kay Price...

"Reflections II", by Kathleen Burford...

"A Parliament of Owls", by Carol Goddu...

"The Wrath of Poseidon", by Marilyn Belford...

More tomorrow...!