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Houston International Quilt Festival, 2024; The Quilts, Part 2

November 7, 2024

 

You can find Part 1 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met!

See Part 1 of the Houston quilts here along with an explanation of how I selected photos. Here ya go:

Unusual techniques or form:

Don’t Close Your Eyes; Lena Meszaros
Kaleidoscopic XXXV: Service for Eight; Paula Nadelstern
Millstones; Tetiana Bohachuk
Detail, Millstones; Tetiana Bohachuk
Devotion; Jung Sun Lee
The Touch of True North; Linda S. Reyle
Personal transparency; Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Electric Snails #2; Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
United We Stand; Andrew Lee
Once Upon a Time; Esther Tronchoni Simo with Peter Hayward
Kimono Lovers; Akiko Yoshimizu
Crestwood 1; Maggie Vanderweit
College Hill; Anna Chupa
Bound to Tradition – Quiet; Sue LaWall Cortese
Black – White – Grey; Sherri Lipman McCauley
Serenity; Anita Armstrong
Unconstrained; Linda Fleschner

Surface Design:

Joy; Linda Waddle
Let’s Open the Zip; Noriko Nozawa
Twilight Flight; Janet Ruth Davis
Tagged; Darta Gallentine
Bugdala; Rebecca Muir MacKellar
Field of Flowers; Linda Waddle
Magic Flowers; Susan Smith
Floral Whimsy; Judith Ahlborn
Listen to the Wind; Hope Wilmarth

Improv:

Pathways; Mimi Ghauri-Young
Magic Beans; Jan Soules
Turning a New Leaf; Charan Sachar
Moroccan Magic; Linda Steele
Moongate Garden; Sarah Ann Smith
Straight Laced; Beatrice Gilbert

Statement, emotion:

Best Friends; Susan van Goethem
Torn by What We’ve Done; Maggie Vanderweit
Horse With No Name; Jo Allbutt with Improv North Bee
Whitewashed: Hidden Figures; Phyllis Cullen
The Children of War; Luana Rubin
Please Save My Children; Viviana Lombrozo
Sweet Texas Memories; Candice Phelan
Breathe; Jeanne Sisson
The Slave Horn; Georgia Williams, quilted by Dena Angela Miskel
Moonlit; Wendy L Starn

Animals, Plants, Portraits:

The Adventures of Shug; Carolyn Butterfield
Elvis; Tasha Owen
Chard; Jane Sassaman
Dogwood: the Promise; Andrea Brokenshire
Damilola; Uzoma Anyanwu; Quilted by Earamicha Brown
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man; Alexandra Curran
Another Day; Gloria Zirges
A la Deriva – Adrift; Esther Delgado Pico
Poppy; Jane Haworth
Fish; Marianne Knops

Other?

Fire and Ice; Kyra Reps
World of 4.724 Inch; Aiko Ishikawa
Maze of Vines and Roses; Judy Garden
Terrace Views; Anna Maria Parry
Ferentino; Janet Fogg
Graphic Flower; Keith Dommer
1618 Happy People; Georgia Williams, quilted by Thomazine Alexander
Faces of Society; Alka Rode

I’ll be linking up:
Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday

Filed Under: Quilts and Art Quilts, Shows

Comments

  1. Judy woodworth says

    November 7, 2024 at 7:01 am

    Thank you for sharing. Anyone of these beautiful quilts could have won a ribbon. Congratulations quilt makers.

    • Jenny says

      November 7, 2024 at 7:09 am

      It’s just so cool to see so many fabulous quilts at once!

  2. Sandy Curran says

    November 7, 2024 at 7:48 am

    Thank you Jenny!

    • Jenny says

      November 7, 2024 at 9:15 am

      Oh you are so welcome! It was good to see your work in person again. With the demise of PIQF it will be hard for me to see it.

  3. Marianne Knöps says

    November 7, 2024 at 8:45 am

    Thank you for sharing the fabulous quilts and my quilt FISH :-)

    • Jenny says

      November 7, 2024 at 9:14 am

      And your FISH was a STAR! It really made an impact.

  4. Marianne Knops says

    November 7, 2024 at 9:44 am

    Wow Jenny, thank you for this compliment :-)

    • Jenny says

      November 7, 2024 at 1:12 pm

      Well deserved!

  5. Rosemarie Davis says

    November 10, 2024 at 12:05 pm

    Outstanding quilts again. Thanks for letting us get a peek to share the beauties.

    • Jenny says

      November 10, 2024 at 4:00 pm

      You’re welcome Rosemarie!

  6. Wendy L Starn says

    November 16, 2024 at 3:31 pm

    That’s my Moonlit, in your Statement/Emotion section. Thanks for including it.

    • Jenny says

      November 17, 2024 at 2:51 pm

      Oh I HAD to include it Wendy! It spoke to me, softly: the calm, the colors, the quilting, the composition. I get a feeling of calm, quiet and awe.

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