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I know I have been missing in action, but for a good cause. I helped to coordinate an information table at Quilt Knit Stitch 2015 for Surface Design Association. We set it up on Wednesday and the show ran Thursday – Saturday. We had a display of swatches of samples of surface design techniques by our members and lots of journals to peruse.
The opening quilt up above was in the red quilt show that debuted in Houston. I liked the more modern versions of the red quilts. That one was made by Betty Hahn, an artist that I really admire.
Here is another innovative red quilt.
We were next to an exhibit of work by students in Jane Dunnewold’s master class. Some of these pieces were my favorites in the show. Here are some I especially liked.
This piece was so gorgeous – hand dyed and discharged and some applique of poppy heads.
The hand stitching on this is really lovely. It has sections of hand-dyed gauze laminated to the surface. It needs to be seen up close.
This is one of Jane’s pieces that is digitally manipulated and printed by Spoonflower and then quilted.
These 3 pieces had such gorgeous surface design.
Another gorgeous piece with surface treatment.
Here are some other random pieces in the traveling special exhibits.
Sue Dennis of Australia makes such lovely quilts using leaves. She does rubbings, printing and applique.
Another fabulous quilt by Betty Hahn. It is painted!
This is a small modern quilt with Big Pink, our iconic building here in Portland.
I always love a Betty Busby quilt. This one was in the SAQA Redirecting the Ordinary exhibit.
My regular readers may recognize this as the big sister to a SAQA auction quilt that I purchased.
And here is the little sister.
Hope you enjoyed this sampling of quilts from Quilt Knit Stitch.
I am splayed out on a comfy king size bed at the Green Gables Inn in Walla Walla, WA. Mr C and I are taking a real vacation – something we have not done in a while. We are driving to Glacier National Park with a couple of B & B stops along the way. We drove through the Columbia Gorge and followed the mighty Columbia River most of the way.
It doesn’t take long before the landscape changes as you hit the drier clime of eastern Oregon.
It was fun to look in the rear view mirror and see Mt. Hood.
Around one pm, we were near Umatilla and I was starving. Umatilla is a rural community with a few fast food restaurants, but that was not going to work for gluten free me. I got on Yelp and found a taco restaurant. You can’t go wrong with a hole in the wall Mexican restaurant. I had delicious chicken tacos. I think the Divine Dining might have been a hold over from another restaurant.
We arrived in Walla Walla where the temperature was over 90°. The Innkeeper offered us an upgrade to a suite, which we took. It is a lovely large room with a sitting area and a balcony and a walkin closet. We were given the menu selections for breakfast so that we could make our choices. There was a GF option!! She said the chef will make GF scones for me.
We are adjacent to Whitman College which has a beautiful campus with lots of outdoor sculptures. We walked through the campus to the downtown. It was a nice, hot walk.
There are many beautiful beds of Day Lilies.
We got refreshed at a lovely patisserie that serves gelato. I had strawberry rhubarb and house made lemon basil soda. The pause that refreshed.
But, we were happy to get back to our air conditioned room to rest before dinner at a French restaurant where we shared a delicious Bouillabaisse and chocolate mousse.
The view from our balcony which was shady with a nice breeze.
Tomorrow, we are off to our next destination, in Idaho.
I will admit to being distracted with the enraged knee and my solo show painting, so this printing was done very quickly.
Carol Eaton was the queen bee and she chose the forest floor as her theme. I created two therofax screens to represent the Oregon forest floor – pine boughs and pine cones. I chose a dark beige hand dyed fabric for the base and screened the pine boughs first, using dark green and a metallic green.
I didn’t take more photos, but it was pretty basic, anyway.
The six inch give away piece is at the top. Here is the piece going to Carol:
And here is the mosaic of all the pieces that were completed on time.
You can go to Carol’s blog and/or the PFB blog and leave a comment. There are some gorgeous pieces in this collection.
I finished this, except for the edges. Turned it in and it got a great review from EB. As is my MO, I was a underwhelmed when I finished it, but it is growing on me.
I did some more work on this piece, but need to quilt the background before I finish the top.
I started working on the water piece for this group.
Lisa is here, looking for a house to buy. She thinks she found one to make an offer on. We are meeting the realtor with her tomorrow at the house. It seems like the perfect place for them. Tonight we had a nice family meal at Stephanie’s.