Dare to Dance

It's here!  Got my copy of Dare to Dance a couple of weeks ago!  Here are my pages in  the book.  There are 58 more wonderful quilts included in all.  I'm on p. 90-93.

The book is available from the publisher, Schiffer Books or Amazon.com.

Better photos here: Portrait of Greco   Phoebis Agarithe

What's everyone up to? Look here:

Sky in Tactile Architecture 2013

More information on my piece in the Tactile Architecture exhibit can be found here.

Update:  The building is the service building at the rear of the oldTurpin Pontiac dealership on Murray St.  I happened on a photo by chance on another blog.  The windows have been covered since I took the photo 5 years ago.

Colorful!

I've made 3 quilts recently, and none of them can be published on the web yet due to entry rules for various events.  Two of them WILL be published in a book next spring!  The book is tentatively titled Dare to Dance:  An Artist's Interpretation of Joy, and the author is Mary Kerr.

Pleinweave, made several years ago from fabric I spray-dyed especially for this quilt, and very carefully cut and pieced to keep the original color flow.  The pattern is a traditional basket lattice.

I made several smaller pieces from the leftover dyed fabrics, and more black, of course.

Update:  Look for two of my quilts at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this fall in the "Tactile Architecture" and "In the American Tradition" exhibits!  Big happy dance!
Second update:  Look for a third quilt in  the "Hands All Around" exhibit!  Holy cow!

Link to Bloggers' Quilt Festival.

Free Motion Machine Quilting Challenge-January

Not the greatest, but I did finish it!

Blog Hop Party & Giveaway

And the winner is....#28 Gwen!
Quilting Bloggers is having a blog hop with giveaways!  I will give a set of 5 quilt note cards to one lucky winner!  To enter:  Read the next post about missing quilts.  Leave a comment on this post with the title of one of the missing quilts (and please, keep an eye out for them.  Sarah and I miss our babies!).  I will draw a random name and email you for your mailing address, so please leave enough information for me to contact you.  One entry per person.  Entries not containing a title of a missing quilt will be disqualified.
 

Set of 5 cat quilt note cards featuring two of my cat quilts and some closeups of the cats! 
From left:  Top Row:  Oslo, Moose, Boris. 
Bottom Row:  Cornered!  full quilt, Boris & Natasha, the Yin-Yang Kittens full quilt.
Based on photographs by the artist.

Missing Quilts! Have you seen them?

Missing!  Two of my quilts and two belonging to Sarah Ann Smith of Maine.  They were apparently lost in a shipping mishap in Lomita, California on 11 October, 2011.
These quilts were part of a special exhibit, "Then and Now," at Mancuso shows in New Hampshire (World Quilt Competition) and California (Pacific International Quilt Festival, PIQF, Santa Clara), from which they were returned.  The quilts were supposed to be mailed from the Office Depot in Lomita, but vanished without a trace.
Sarah Ann Smith's blog with more information:
http://www.sarahannsmith.com/weblog/?p=6521

Lost Quilt page with my information:
http://lostquilt.com/index.php/2011/status/missing/shady-lady-and-economy/

Shady Lady by Wendy L. Starn of LA. 26 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. Included in Lark Books' 500 Art Quilts.

 

Economy by Wendy L. Starn. 19 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches.

Sarah's page on the Lost Quilt website:
http://lostquilt.com/index.php/2011/status/missing/fields-of-gold-dogwood-dawn/


 

Fields of Gold by Sarah Ann Smith. Size: 18 x 20 1/2 inches. 2nd place winner in Houston 2009, featured in Award Winning Quilts 2011 calendar.

Dogwood::Dawn by Sarah Ann Smith. 33 x 27 inches. Previously on sale at Ducktrap Bay Trading Company in Camden, ME.

It's Home!

Maple Leaf Rag went to quilt shows in Houston, Chicago & Long Beach, and has finally returned home today!


A Walk in the Swamp

My piece, Acer Rubrum, and details.  Photos courtesy of John Hartgerink.  See all 25 pieces in the show here: http://cfalart.blogspot.com/2011/01/walk-in-swamp-2011_15.html

Blue Ribbon!

I picked up my items that traveled to the Louisiana State Fair today, and was pleased and surprised to find a blue ribbon on this one for Machine Applique'!

Bloggers' Quilt Festival

Sky, 2009, and detail

I went around the Alexandria downtown area one Sunday afternoon and took many photographs. There’s no shortage of urban decay here. Although Alexandria was burned to the ground during the Civil War, there are still a few buildings from the era of Reconstruction, as well as many built later and abandoned. This particular building appeared to still be in use as I could see lights on inside. I went back a few weeks later to take some more photos and could not find it.
 

One of the original photos

Bloggers' Quilt Festival

Breaking Traditions 2010

Opens today at The American Sewing Expo, Novi, Michigan

Everybody's Talking at Me and detail

Failure to Communicate and detail

Opens today at The American Sewing Expo, Novi, Michigan.  Both pieces are 12 x 12 inches.  Theme was Autism:In My Own Words

Breaking Traditions at 212 Arts Center

My piece, Boris and Natasha, the Yin-Yang Kittens (upper right-hand corner) is on the show flyer.

Economy

Not the best photo.  Based on traditional Economy quilt block.  This does meet the traditional definition of a quilt being 3 layers held together with stitching, although the top layer is tulle and the middle layer is, yup, bandaids.  On exhibit through Sept. 30 at Denham Springs, La. Library.
See the whole show on the cfal blog

Katrina + 5

Click here for more information on quilt.

Sneak Peek #7

Part of an exhibit by Contemporary Fiber Artists of Louisiana to be held at the Livingston Parish Library, Denham Springs, beginning Sept. 1.  The sneak peek masks will also be in the show.

Slice Quilt # 2 Midnight

18 x 24

Slice Quilt # 1 Under the Sea

18 x 24

Sneak Peek #6

detail from a second slice quilt

Sneak Peek #5

Made for local guild challenge-slice quilt

Sneak Peek #2

This is not the same piece, but will also be going to Breaking Traditions.