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My supplies are packed up and in storage until I get the car tomorrow. Tonight was the final dinner together.
I did another small landscape today. It is a vineyard setting in Sonoma county where I live. It still needs some work – this is the bare bones.
I love the work of Kristin La Flamme who lives in Heidelberg, Germany. She is young and is a creative quilter to be reckoned with. She wrote a very moving letter and will be the recipient of a scholarship next year. Her husband is in the service and they have two adorable children who came to visit class. Here are her landscapes:
She was working from tiny pictures which she said helped her go more abstract.
Today we had a diversion as the bears came out to play:
These were the adolescent cubs. We don’t know where the Mom was. Tonight when I was coming back to the lodge, one of them walked right across my path!!
Tonight at dinner they gave out awards for the challenge quilts. Libby Lehman was the judge. Best of show was this one:
First place was won by Linda for this rendering of Carnegie Hall started in a Ruth McDowell class:
Second place was won by Sebastopol quilter, ta da, Judy Bianchi for Pomegranites:
Third place and viewer’s choice was won by my Marin friend, Diane Ansel, for her Tuscan village.
Judy, who runs AQT, told me that I just missed out on viewer’s choice, which made me very happy. What really made me happy was selling two quilts!!!!!
Tomorrow, I will spend a leisurely morning and then have lunch with some bloggers and then go home to some peace and quiet!
I leave you with the dessert du jour!~ (Look DebR, no whipped cream with the strawberry!)
Thank you so much for allowing us to share this marvelous experience with you. I really really want to go next year, but will have to wait until I see where Pierre will be. Your work and all the wonderful pictures have inspired me 🙂
wow, i especially like kristen’s village piece. my goodness what talent you all have. i also love the photos of the bears!! they are so amazing! so glad you are coming home soon. i will call you soon!
Gerrie, can you blog a bit about the process you used in Sue’s class? Did you arrive with a bunch of stuff wonder-undered? Or did you wonder-under your fabric before you started composing? or you composed and then applied W-U as needed? I love the huge variety of fabrics you used and am wondering if you had to spend a whole lot of ironing time before you could start…
Oh, Gerrie, what a fabulous week! I am jealous. But did you have to put those dessert pictures up??
The quilts are super and I can’t believe how productive you were in Sue Benner’s class. I loved catching up on the whole week, thanks for sharing.
Congratulations on selling two quilts! And thanks for the shout-out.
Cheers!
You had an amazingly productive day. That first quilt looks like a Phil Beaver workshop quilt. Was the thread work extraordinary?
I like all of the rest better. Of these, my favorite is the Tuscan village. Thanks for sharing your amazing week! Jen
No whipped cream but it looks like they tossed on a couple of raspberries. Sort of a grand finale?
Love all the quilt photos and can’t wait to see where you go with the vinyard one. Which quilt of yours almost got viewer’s choice? And which two sold?
Gerrie, your week was really productive. AQT must be quilter’s heaven!