Maria Elkins

Category: Quilt shows

  • IQF portrait quilts, part 5

    IQF portrait quilts, part 5

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    I have a few more portrait quilts to share from the International Quilt Festival in Houston. If you’ve never been to Quilt Festival, there’s no way to imagine the vastness of it all. Sheer overload. I was at the show on Preview Night and the following two days. I could not see everything in that…

  • IQF portrait quilts, part 4

    IQF portrait quilts, part 4

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    Here are two more joy-filled quilts that I saw at the International Quilt Festival in Houston last week. Both are by artists that I eagerly look forward to seeing. I love seeing the work of Phyllis Cullen, and “Joy (Lovebirds Three)” is no exception. She uses raw edge applique to create wonderful artwork filled with…

  • IQF portrait quilts, part 3

    IQF portrait quilts, part 3

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    As I mentioned a couple days ago, I am particularly drawn to any quilt that features a person, so I’m sharing a few more of those photos with you. These were all taken at the 2011 International Quilt Festival in Houston. Marilyn Wall created an interesting piece called “Ohm.” She combined two manipulated photographs in…

  • IQF portrait quilts, part 2

    IQF portrait quilts, part 2

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    I have more people quilts to share with you from the International Quilt Festival in Houston. Hope you’ll enjoy then as much as I did. Tanya Brown won a second place in the Art-Painted Surface category with “Flooded.” She used watercolor and ink on cotton that was pretreated with soy milk. That’s a technique that…

  • IQF people and portrait quilts

    IQF people and portrait quilts

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    Whenever I go to a quilt show, I try to take a picture of every quilt that is a portrait or is figurative. I’m addicted. Some shows don’t have very many of them, but the International Quilt Festival in Houston last week had numerous people and portrait quilts. And, I had the priviledge of meeting…

  • Home from Houston

    Home from Houston

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    Yes, I was floating all week. It was a fairyland of quilts and compliments. A beautiful hotel room and delicious meals I didn’t have to cook. An attentive escort and a sea of friendly faces. Today I had to return to earth. We flew home. I still had fairy dust surrounding me, though. I couldn’t…

  • IQF Day 4

    IQF Day 4

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    I’m definitely feeling my age now. I remember coming to Quilt Festival ten years ago or so, and staying the entire day from the moment it opened to the moment it closed. Today, I wore myself out around 4, so I hopped on the shuttle bus and headed back to the hotel. I told sweet…

  • IQF Day 3

    IQF Day 3

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    Ahhh! A day to “relax!” Today was my day to see the show…not that anyone could possibly see it in just one day! I spent the morning shopping. Here is the first interesting thing I bought. It’s the CD of the winning quilts. Look in the lower left hand corner! I also bought a copy…

  • IQF Day 2

    IQF Day 2

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    Today’s first event was the IQA Luncheon. The top eight award winners had the dubious honor of sitting on the stage while we ate. Afterwards, we each had to get up and make a short speech. I never did hear how long it was supposed to be until we were being introduced. For those who…

  • Happy dance for “Windblown” and “Embrace 1”

    Happy dance for “Windblown” and “Embrace 1”

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    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…