Quilt Art

I attended this year's last quarterly meeting of my quilt guild and once again came home so inspired and just simply blown away by all the beautiful fabric art I saw that day. I have some photos to share and I'm sure you'll see why it made me want to pull out the sewing machine and use it to make art!


The quarterly meetings begin with a coffee fellowship time and proceed to a business meeting, this time holding election of officers. At the end of that portion of the day is a "Show and Tell" when any member can show their current projects.

This lady said that this was her very first quilt- a crib size for a grandchild.

Wonderful for a first quilt!

Interesting effects with the curves cut into angles

This is a winter or even Christmas quilt, with red cardinals. So beautiful!

Terrible photo but I hope you can see how lovely the simple design and colors are.

Another child's quilt

Crib quilts are manageable projects. I have gotten several done also in the last few years. This one is colorful.

This was on a table at the back and I just thought it was adorable!

This quilt was present to represent what would be taking place at the next meeting in February. The guest speaker then will be a woman who imports Japanese yukata cotton fabrics. She also hand dyes them and will be displaying her quilts and telling about her visit to the International Great Quilt Show in Tokyo!

After reading about Sarah's visit to Japan I immediately recognized the vermilion in this quilt! The trunk show of quilts next time will also include quilts made with the classic Blue and Whites. Looking forward to it!

There was a wonderful lecture on threads and machine quilting by a thread expert from the Superior Thread Co. I will share that educational experience in another post.



After the lecture, several of us went to the library where the art quilt club had a show of their beautiful fabric artworks.

Just like all art works, every creator has different inspirations, techniques and styles.

This group all represented African designs and fabrics.

This is a detail from the quilt above with "drawings" by machine stitching. Wow.

A beaded fringe embellished this one.

This gorgeous wall hanging is a tree that represents the four seasons.

Spring blossoms and summer fruit (glass beads)

Autumn leaves and the bare branches of winter.

If you notice the zippers, the title was "Zipping through the Seasons"

The artist used layers of fabrics and many stitching styles to "paint" her scene. I noticed the machine stitches that made bark on the base of this tree.

The same artist made this pheasant quilt

Layers of fabrics with machine quilting outlining leaves.

 

 

 Notice how the different machine quilting patterns enhances the fabrics and look of the piece.

I have so much to learn and to try!

More in another post.....