Houston International Quilt Festival, 2024; The Quilts, Part 1
You can find Part 2 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met!
Well it was a fabulous show! Yes, I think it was smaller than last year, but still, there were many stunning quilts. The surprise for me this year was that the Abstract category was huge and the Modern comparatively small.
The show opens!!
There were some strong exhibits that intrigued me and I was especially taken by an exhibit by Teresa Duryea Wong which featured rescued tops that she finished. A woman who stood right behind me at that exhibit remarked: “That just isn’t right. Not only does that destroy the provenance of the quilt, it destroys the quilt”. Oy. There were several other magnificent exhibits, too many to name.
As always, I don’t show photos of the top winners, as you can see a much better photos here. I also don’t post photos of quilts I have posted from previous shows (unless I forget I posted them!).
The vendor area was considerably smaller; there was a large area at the back unfilled. But, the vendors there were goooood!
There is so much more that I wish that I could share with you, but just what I have here, all 107 photos, is quite the undertaking. I’d love to show my detail shots, share the stories behind the quilts, etc. but that is just too much!
I decided to group them into categories for ease of viewing. Please note, it was a capricious decision as to what category to put them in. I’m sure, out of 107 quilts, I have completely misplaced a few. Forgive me.
Enjoy!
My quilt Henrietta, in yellow, with her team mates.
And here goes a blatant humble brag:
St. Radigund’s Garden (Canterbury, UK); Audrey Durnan
Audrey was a student in one of my Empty Spools sessions. She came in as a highly accomplished artist, painter of silk and designer. She wanted to up her quilting game. Some of the quilting motifs she used to enhance this quilt came from our Empty Spools session. I was just thrilled to see that! That is painted silk, so a whole cloth. Her work is stunning and the sheen of the silk, oh my. I have just 6 open slots available for the Spring 2025 Empty Spools session, just sayin’.
Color:
Surf’s Up; Beatrice Gilbert
Down to Earth; Jan Soules
Interstitial Phases #3; Timna Tarr
Pollinator; Luana Rubin
Variations of the Moon Jar 3; Hyunjung Kwon
Archaic Astell; Yukari Otsuka
Electric Snails #2; Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Kiwi Peel; Ben Darby
Peony; Kathy Kennedy
Shaggy; Teresa Schlabach
Effervescence; Lisa Ellis
Confetti; Lisa Ellis
This Old Quilt; Theresa Benedetti; Quilted by DeDe Powell
Looking for Gold in All the Wrong Places; Laura Leiden
Climb Every Mountain; Kazuyo Doi
Tomorrow’s Wild Blossoms; Chen Tse tsai
The Crazy One; Teresa Duryea Wong
Circle Love; Beatrice Gilbert
Piecing and Traditional:
Reimagined; Debra Nicklaus; Quilted by Debby Eades
Green Baskets; Diana Petterson
Antique Evening Star With Chintz Border Quilt; Unknown maker, from collection of Kay Ross
My Secret Garden; Megumi Mizuno
Early Indigo Trapunto; Unknow maker (from the Intl Quilt Festival Collection)
The 2024 Intl Quilt Festival Signature Quilt, a 1915 Variation of a Goose in the Pond, by Tammy Morris, quilted by Eva Ellison
Rainbow Hexies; Sally Robinson; Quilted by Helen Rode
Kiwi Peel; Ben Darby
Bond; Ryoko Mizota
Hallelujah; Betty Chouinard, quilted by Flo Verge
New Beginnings; Suzie Diver
Sunflowers Under the Starts; Mona Young Redlich, quilted by Cindy Gravely
Applique:
Basket Case; Nancy rink
Flowerland; Sue Nickels
Beautiful Village; Junko Fujiwara
Tulips; Chinami Terai
Truly Madly Deeply; Karen Lambdin
A Primitive Garden; Kathyrn Walker
Baltimore Album Quilt II; Yukiko Hirano (from the Intl Quilt Festival Collection)
Knotty but Nice; Marque McKay, quilted by Karen Lambdin
Sofie’s August Morning; Lynne S. Dallmeyer Hartman, quilted by Sally Terry
Gentle Reminders (Our Loved Ones are Near); Lisa Johnson; Quilted by Tuesday Cousettes Bee
Urns With Flowers; Nancy Rink
A Rose for Sue – A Tribute; Joanne Sorrentino, quilted by Rose Bell
Remembering ME; Simone Steuzner
Garden Friends Lisa Mortell
Vintage Country Linen, Kathyrn Walker with Ruby Goodwin and Pearl Oden
My Secret Garden; Megumi Mizuno
I’ll be linking up:
Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
Nice! Thx for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed the photos Reena!
Great photos!!! Thank you so much. What a treat.
You’re welcome Arlene!
Thank you for posting so many photos. Even though I attended the show there are quilts that I’m sure I saw but don’t remember seeing. It is all a bit overwhelming. I did enjoy seeing Henrietta in all her glory. Your quilting on her is so beautiful! So inspiring!
Thank you for all of that Carmen! It IS overwhelming.