Category: Portraits
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Blown away!
I don’t know how to say this — I’m blown away!!! I just got a surprise phone call from Crystal at IQA. She told me the most amazing news! Windblown won one of the top eight awards for the upcoming International Quilt Festival in Houston! I wasn’t sure I heard her right, so I made…
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Getting a quilt appraised
Today DH and I took a little road trip so we could get “Windblown” appraised. Many quilters I know have never had their quilts appraised, but after more than twelve years of maintaining the Lost Quilt Come Home website, I am fully convinced of the necessity of doing this, especially for any quilt that will…
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Mission accomplished!
Yesterday was my favorite kind of day. Other than the obligatory walk (a whole three buildings away) to get the required celebratory Blizzard (LOL! Of course, it goes without saying that finding out that both “Windblown” and “Embrace 1” were accepted into the Houston show definitely added to it being a favorite kind of day…
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Happy dance for “Windblown” and “Embrace 1”
Woohoo! Today is a happy day! I just received notification that “Windblown” and “Embrace 1” have been selected as finalists for the 2011 International Quilt Festival in Houston. If I do nothing else during the year, this is the one show I always try to enter, so I’m very excited about this! This is the…
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Stitched, the Film
Yesterday at our SAQA parlour meeting we got to watch Stitched. It is a documentary on the current quilt world. It specifically features Caryl Bryer Fallert, Hollis Chatelain, and Randall Cook. It follows them through a full year as they each create a quilt for the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I’ve been looking forward…
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SAQA Parlour Meeting
Today was another SAQA Parlour Meeting for the Southwest and Central Ohio regions. Sixteen quilters in our area gathered together to exchange ideas and to share what they’ve been working on. I had the opportunity to show “Windblown.” Show and Tell is always my favorite time of any gathering, and today was no exception! Here…
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Sheer Whim at NQA Show
My sweet hubby and I had the opportunity to go to the NQA show today, and I was thrilled to see that “Sheer Whim” won a third place ribbon in the Art/Innovative category. (Sorry for the lousy picture! Can you believe I only took one, and it was fuzzy? Oh, well.) It was lots of…
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Gallery updated
I just finished updating my gallery page so it now features Windblown and Embrace 1. Writing artist’s statements is definitely not my strength, so if you have questions about either of these pieces, or if you have ideas of what other information should be included, please feel free to let me know.
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Embrace 1
I’ve been so busy working on “Windblown” that I haven’t said much about “Embrace 1” which is the other quilt I just finished. It is a interpretation of three woodblock prints that I did during college. I’ve always liked the sketch-like quality of the image, and I wanted to try to capture the same feeling…