Splendiferous: Fly Me To The Moon

Saturday, December 28, 2019

My Best of 2019

2019 was pretty busy!

Cents and Sensibility was accepted to Alexandria Museum of Art exhibit, Concrete and Adrift: On the Poverty Line.

Back Yard Beauty went to Mid-Alantic Quilt Festival in Pennsylvania.

Lichen hung at Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center in Baton Rouge.

Too Raw (Too Soon Every Day to Talk About Gun Violence) was accepted to the Tom Peyton Arts Festival, and Alexandria Museum of Art September Competition, AND was awarded the purchase prize at the latter.

Feathers, Scales and Tails: Night Flight went to Quilteroo's in Ruston, La., and Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center.

Fatsia Fantasy, Into the Woods, and Leaf Party went to the Main Library and State Archive, both in Baton Rouge.

Her Eyes as Clear as Centuries went to Sacred Threads.

Rhumba went to the Gallery One Ellleven Annual Competition Show and won a merit award (and will be in Curated Quilts in early 2020).

L'Homme Vert du Cyprie're and The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep hung at Louisiana State Arboretum in August.

Shuffle sold at the SAQA auction.

Thoughts and Prayers was accepted to Collective (In)Action exhibit at Memorial Union Gallery, NDSU

Took a class in June with Wen Redmond, about digital printing on unusual substrates, and used my new knowledge to participate in SAQA's 100 day project.

These three quilts came home after a three year tour all over the US (and Birmingham, England) as part of Fly Me To The Moon. By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Moonlight Serenade, and Moonlight Sonata.

A Suitable Boy toured libraries throughout the state all year, as part of a Contemporary Fiber Artists of Louisiana books exhibit.

Naiad and Dryad hung at the Ascension Parish Library, Dutchtown, for the month of December, as part od SAQA regional exhibit.

I also made two quilts, a doll, and a smocked romper for my granddaughter. I've already got plans for 2020!

Meadow Mist Designs linky party

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Fly Me to the Moon!

Three of my quilts will be traveling as part of the Fly Me to the Moon collection, celebrating the 50th (yes, really) anniversary of the moon landing in 2019. Here is the current exhibit schedule:

November 3-6, 2016: Houston International Quilt Festival (54 quilts will be shown), including my "Moonlight Sonata"

Houston IQF sponsor http://www.equilter.com/

January 19-22, 2017: Road to California in Ontario, CA (all FMTTM quilts will be shown)
April 6-8, 2017: Chicago International Quilt Festival in Rosemont, Illinois (54 quilts will be shown), including my "Moonlight Sonata"
May 4-6, 2017: 14th Annual HMQS Home Machine Quilting and Sewing in Salt Lake City, Utah (all FMTTM quilts will be shown)
June 2-4, 2017: Quilters Unlimited Quilt Show in Chantilly, VA (all FMTTM quilts will be shown)
June 15-17, 2017: Sew Original Quilt and Creative Expos in Reno, NV (all FMTTM quilts will be shown)
August 17-20, 2017: World Quilt New England in Manchester, NH (quilts TBD)
September 14-17, 2017: Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Oaks, PA (quilts TBD)
January, 2018 Dates to be announced: Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show (all FMTTM quilts will be shown)
May 11 – 22, 2018 Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Germany (90 quilts will be exhibited)

Here are my quilts: