Houston Quilt Festival 2015-Part 2-The Quilts
Now, the quilts! Today I’ve included photos from Viewpoints 9, two of the SAQA exhibits: Wild Fabrications and Balancing Act, Modern quilts, and 3 quilts that are simply my favorites. I have seen several other posts by others with photos of amazing quilts that somehow I missed. You must know that my tour of the quilt floor was done in fits and spurts. I would start a category and get distracted with a conversation or the need to rush back to class, not realizing that I had missed part of the category.
But it was a great show! I am pressed for time so I am presenting them with just title and maker. Some of the stories and techniques behind the quilt are fascinating but I just don’t have the time to write it all out. Enjoy:
Wild Fabrications, a SAQA exhibit:
Balancing Act, a SAQA exhibit:
Viewpoints 9
And these are three of my favorite quilts in the show, just because:
Oh I love this study of hands! Sandy wrote that she used to have beautiful hands and was in fact a hand model in her youth. This piece celebrates the beauty in hands that create.
I love this image. I guess it takes me back to growing up in Illinois when my family would drive down to my Aunt’s farm for Christmas. This would have been a pretty typical winter scene. There is an edited and quiet beauty to the prairie in winter.
I can’t tell you why I love this piece but I kept on coming back to it. It is peaceful and provocative, simple but intriguing. I’ll stop now.
I’ll be linking up tomorrow with Nina Marie’s Off the Wall Friday. I’ll have more quilts next week. I will probably have new favorites by then!
Thank you for sharing. A lot of us would not be able to attend.
It takes a lot of time to pass this information on. Can’t you enough
Mary
Wow!!!!!
You should go next year Doreen!
Thank you – I just love living vicariously through your emails. So much beauty out there. And I even think, “I can do that”. Okay, I don’t think it for long but there are moments. Thanks again for sharing.
Susan Hall
You’re welcome! I’m so glad you are enjoying them. And yes, I hope you DO think, I can do that because you can.
Stunning work! I hope to get there some year!
Oh if you get the chance, go Angela! It is so fun and inspiring!
What a wide variety of gorgeousness ! I like the fox the best and the hands! Oh those hands – interesting. Lyric Kinard’s is a master of composition. Who else could put a circle and some lines on a piece of fabric and make you stop and have to stare. I love her work. On my bucket list to take a class with her.
Oh there was so much beauty there! I know, Lyric’s piece was divine.
I loved that polar bear quilt too. And the little house on the prairie was another that I really enjoyed seeing. Thanks for sharing. You get a different view of the quilts when you see a photograph instead of seeing them in person.
Yes it sure is different in person. And it’s also different when someone really knows how to use a camera! Glad you enjoyed them Debby.