Off to Houston!

I'm so excited to be going off to International Quilt Festival in Houston! I'm heading to the airport in the morning and hoping to get in on time to attend Preview Night and at least some of the quilts before I fall in a heap at the Four Seasons across the street from the Convention Center. It's been an exhausting couple of weeks in my other life and it's catching up with me.





I'm sort of astounded to have five quilts showing at Festival this year including "Mated for Life" (above) debuting in the Tactile Architecture exhibit and "Bella Camellia" in In Full Bloom - both shows will travel to various venues around the country for a year.





"Down in the Grove" (below) is in the IQA World of Beauty competition and I also have an entry in the What's For Dinner? exhibit and a 12" quilt "Mated for Life II" which will be sold (hopefully) in the SAQA Benefit Auction.





I've got two full days just to wander, shop, sit in on a few lectures, see friends and find new inspiration. I'll be posting on Facebook and maybe do a blog post or two while I'm there to share what inspires me!

MY SAQA Benefit Auction Dream Collection...

Here's my Dream Collection derived from the SAQA Benefit Auction 2014 quilts. The auction starts September 15th. Enjoy. View all the quilts and other Dream Collections at http://www.saqa.com/memberArt.php?ID=3152



Floralegium - curated by Sally Wright

Windswept II Nancy Ryan	Copper Seeds Shelly Burge	Lirio Rojo Phyllis Barnett
Iris - #ll Cherie Brown	Pink Poppy Juanita Yeager	Daylily Peggy Brown

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Published!

I've been watching my mail impatiently for my early copy of "The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting", UK quilter and author Linda Seward's new book. It's been in the works for a very long time, but this book which is now on pre-order with Amazon is truly a fabulous compendium of every art quilt technique - fusing, dyeing, screen printing, appliqué, free motion quilting, digital imagery, beading, embroidery - it's got it all accompanied by very easy to understand step by step instructions and clear illustrations. Everything you need to let your imagination and talent run free.

And why was I anticipating my early copy? Well, because my quilt "Silk Fantasy A La Diane" is illustrated on page 179 in the free motion quilting section!

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Received that always longed for email this morning........ Bella Camellia has been juried into "In Full Bloom" a Special Exhibit of floral quilts at International Quilt Festival in October 2014.  The show will debut at Quilt Market the week before. This may mean a trip to Houston this Fall! 

The quilt is a digital image of camellias in our southern California garden, manipulated on the computer and iPad , printed on fabric at spoonflower, then painted, stitched and quilted.
 
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Soon to be Published!

I'm so excited that one of my quilts is featured in Linda Seward's latest book The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting to be published in June and launched at The Festival of Quilts in Britain this summer. It's been in the works for three years and should inspire a lot of quilters to step into the Art Quilting world. Can't wait to get my copy!
Here's the link... http://www.lindaseward.com/latest-book.html

Off to Paducah!

  

Well, at least my quilt is... I received a very welcome email from AQS that my quilt "Silk Fantasy A La Diane" has been accepted into the American Quilters Society Quiltweek show in Paducah, so it is off to Quilt City next month to be shown in April. Whether I'll go along too is still up for decision, but I've never been to Paducah and it's only two hours by car from Nashville where our son lives, so it's a real temptation.

I'm happy that AQS has forgiven me. Several years ago a quilt of mine was accepted, but I had made the stupid newbie mistake of mistakenly entering a quilt in two shows where the dates overlapped and both accepted it.  It's a cardinal sin in the quilt world to have to turn down a show once accepted and I feared that AQS would blackball me forever. They never answered my groveling "please forgive me but....' email so I feared the worst. I'm happy to hear that apparently bygones are bygones and "Silk Fantasy" has made the grade. It is a simple 9 patch block constructed in dupioni silk and features free motion quilting based on designs taught by the great Diane Gaudynski.

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 So happy that "California Dreaming: Asilomar" has been chosen to be part of the SAQA Southern California Regional Showcase  "Fiber Reactions" now on view at The Poway Center for the performing Arts  in Poway (San Diego County), California. Curated by Mary Tabar one of our SAQA Socal reps, this is the second year for this exhibit which shows off beautifully with  the long curved walls and high cielings of the Center. Now through December 27th with an artist's reception on December 14th.

 

 

"California Dreaming: Asilomar"