Martha's Pumpkin Men

Martha's Pumpkin Men
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Kathy York of Austin. Shown at IQF 2003.

Look at the cute pumpkin!

mypumpkin
Originally uploaded by rexandsharkey.

This is not from the quilt festival - I went looking through Flickr for Halloween quilts and didn't find a whole lot, but I did find this little paper-pieced block!

I think I do have one more picture of a Halloween quilt I haven't posted before - and I have some new Day of the Dead ones from Festival which I will be putting up in the next couple of days!

Vase of Flowers

Vase of Flowers
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Round robin made by M Nelson, G Haegy, C Brand, G Stoecklin, A Dirrig, M Fuchs. Part of the "Stitching the World Together: A Michigan/France Round Robin" exhibit at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

Kaffe Fassett Sampler

Sampler
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy and others. From the "Kaffe Fassett and the Victoria and Albert Quilts" exhibit at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

This quilt is growing on me.

Yellow Cityscape

Yellow Cityscape
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Amy Robertson of Massachusetts. From the Tactile Architecture exhibit at IQF 2005.

River of Life

River of Life
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Inge Mardal and Steen Hougs of Chantilly, France. Winner of a Master Award at IQF 2005.

This quilt is mindblowing. It seems to be made with some variation of Hollis Chatelain's techniques - that is, both dye-painted and thread-painted - as far as I could tell. One of the quilters (Steen) was there and he said that they had watched this family of swans over a long period of time and this was a composite of several of the pictures they took.

Baltimore Album Quilt IV

Baltimore Album Quilt IV
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Isn't this a fabulous color scheme? Very retro - and very un-Japanese, I would have said. Only it is.

Made by Yukiko Hirano of Japan. Winner of a Founder's Award at IQF 2005.


(I'm working on getting the award winners up next. There are several of them up in the Flickr set now - I'm still looking for a better picture of the Best of Show quilt, though. I know I had one!)

Preview

Redwood Trees
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Here's an oldie but a goodie, from my newly-taken quilt festival pictures: Katie Paquini Masopust's Redwood Trees. I'm tired, and I have FOUR HUNDRED pictures, and I don't think more than a few of them will get uploaded tonight. Right now the new Flickr set contains exactly one picture (this one).

Four hundred pictures? Was I temporarily insane?

Swallows in the Garden

Swallows in the Garden
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Karen Bogadi of Oklahoma. From IQF 2003.

(I don't think I've posted this before. And I really ought to stop worrying about that, anyway - not everybody reads all my archives!)

Victorian Made of Japanese Cloth and Western Cloth

Victorian Made of Japanese Cloth and Western Cloth
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Michiko Sonobe. From the 2004 International Quilt Festival.

Yes, I'm home. And tomorrow - quilt festival! (Cross your fingers that my back doesn't get any worse.)

Peek a boo

Peekaboo

This was made by Annette Andersen. From the 2004 Dallas Quilt Celebration.

I don't know how much time I'll have tonight, what with all the packing I haven't started and everything, so here's a Halloween quilt for you. (I'll be back late Wednesday.)

Swamp Life

Swamp Life
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Maker unknown. (And I'm not 100% sure about the name, even.) From IQF 2000.

I love this quilt.

And oh yeah, GO ASTROS!!

Baseball vs. quilts

I was too distracted by baseball to get any actual quilting done to speak of this weekend. I went out and spent another $50, just about, on batiks for that damn strip exchange, and got them washed and cut. The only other thing I did was a block for a gift quilt which I can't talk about yet. I'll take a picture of the blocks (mine and Mom's) before I send them away, though. They are quite cute.

And then I skipped guild tonight to watch the &*!!ing game. Maybe I should have gone, but I figured I wouldn't enjoy it because I'd be thinking about Biggio and Berkman instead of Bettina Havig. (If it had had a better outcome I wouldn't be having second thoughts at all about having stayed home. Heartbreaking, that's the word for that game.)


In other news... yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day was a quilt.

More journal quilts

Journal Quilt Project
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Ivana O. Thomas.

Journal quilts

Journal Quilt Project
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Magda Stryk Therrien.

I don't think I've posted any of these before - if you're not familiar with the concept, I think the formal journal quilt projects usually involve making one small quilt every month for a year. I think these are 8-1/2x11" and most of them have some sort of theme. They've done displays of these at quilt festival the last several years, I think.

(Do you think I said "I think" enough times in that paragraph?)

Hot Time In Ye Olde Towne Tonight

Hot Time In Ye Olde Towne Tonight
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Linda Woosley, of Washington. From IQF 2003.

Pictures!

Here are my full sets of pictures from past quilt festivals:
IQF 2004
IQF 2003
IQF 2000-2002

They are not terribly well-organized within each set - I was happy just to get them all up and sorted into years!

I've probably said this before, but to repeat: I didn't really get serious about taking pictures until 2002, I think. Before that, I just took random pictures and didn't worry about knowing who took them - it didn't occur to me that I'd ever be putting them where people could look at them! So I have added whose they are when I know, but for a lot of them I don't. There are a few of the newer ones that are missing names, too. So if you know who made one of the unattributed ones, please comment either here or on Flickr and let me know!

Contemplating the Ninepatch (detail)

Contemplating the Ninepatch (detail)

I admire people with patience enough to do this much embellishing - and this is only part of the quilt!

I have finished putting the old quilt festival pictures into flickr. I will put up links to the new sets as soon as I get a chance.

Colonnade

Colonnade
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by A.Moloney, C.Duggan, M.Hynes and others. From the exhibit Old Masters/New Masters at IQF 2004.

I like this quilt a lot. It's from the "Old Masters/New Masters" exhibit, which was quilts that adapted paintings, but if this is from a painting I'm not familiar with it.

A Whole Load-a-Moda to Meet da Quota

A Whole Load-a-Moda to Meet da Quota

Made by Lynn Droege.

I thought a lot of the first group of Moda Challenge quilts came out really nice. Since the challenge fabric (neutrals) looked so different from the usual kind of challenge fabric Hoffman usually uses for their challenge, the quilts came out looking really different, too.

This took some planning

Charmed
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Deb Richardson.

(You know, I never even noticed the way it alternates between cool colors and warm colors.)

Strips from the exchange

Batik strip exchange - cools
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Here's the pile of strips I got back from the batik exchange - I didn't count, but it should be 66 2" strips. This month was cools, next month is warms. (I haven't bought my warms yet.)

I'm not going to post the latest zipper quilt picture here because it doesn't look all that different, but here it is if you're interested. I got 3 rows of 4 put together - it's going to be 8x9, I'm thinking, so I need to make 6 pieces that size.

Mom's gift

Mom's birthday gift
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This is the book I got my mom for her birthday. She liked it a lot, I'm happy to say. (It's all the patterns for this quilt.) I also threw in the pink rotary cutter, but I told her it doesn't really count because I'll use it as much as she does, just about, and so I took her to Kohl's and bought her a shirt as well.

Award-winners

Mostly so I can find it again later, here is the list of IQA award-winners from last year. (There are links to a picture of each one, too.)

Reflections

Reflections
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I love this quilt, and the colors are so gorgeous that it almost appears to be lit from behind like the one below - but it's not.

Made by Marie Krauss.

Water Mark

Water Mark

Somebody already asked me over on Flickr what this is made of, and I'm not sure - rayon, maybe? I don't think you could get cotton to be transparent like that. I guess it could be silk, too.

Made by Yoshiko Jinzenji.

In living color

Love for Baltimore
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

You might have noticed by now that I really like bright colors. But I have also developed a definite fondness for neutrals, and I love all those taupes the Japanese are so crazy about. (This album quilt is by Megumi Mizuno and won first prize in Traditional Applique in 2003.)

I love paisley.

Tropical Spiral

Really, I do. Just about anything that looks like paisley, I can be counted on to ooh and ah over. Like this quilt at festival last year.

Wedding Star

Wedding Star

I just realized two things: one, this is the same block that my friend Denise is working on, except hers is multicolored and this one is monochrome; and two, this is the same woman who made the Star Wars quilt. She's from the Houston area so I guess it's not too surprising that I would've run into her work at more than one quilt show, but it's interesting that I have taken pictures of them more than once. I don't take pictures of everything. (Particularly at Quilt Festival - I've never had enough memory on my camera to even try before.)

In Texas You Gotta Play Football

In Texas You Gotta Play Football
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This one is very appropriate for fall - particularly here in Texas, where a lot of people really are football-crazy. This was made by Lora Kilver-Lacey, and I think you can tell what Texas school she roots for if you look closely. (Although you may have to click on the link and take a look at the bigger version for that.)

detail

Doggieminiums detail
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Doggieminiums

Doggieminiums
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Pauline Salzman of Florida. From IQF 2003.

Past IQFs

Fabric Foliage
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I'm thinking I need to run out some more of my old quilt festival pictures, since it's getting really close now. (I'm going on vacation the week right before the quilt festival, but don't worry, I will be back in time to go at least once and take pictures!)

zipper blocks

12 zipper blocks
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I was complaining about how hard the zipper blocks were to put together at the retreat, but interestingly, I had a much easier time yesterday on my mom's Janome than I was having on the Jem. Apparently whatever I was calling a quarter-inch seam on the other machine wasn't.

(In case you're thinking that that doesn't look like a very hard block - I didn't think so either, until I tried it. It's the "teeth" that aren't as simple as they look. They are 1-1/2 x 2-1/2" pieces, and if you don't make the seams pretty darn accurate, they don't fit. I think I have a habit of sewing scant seams, and my teeth strips kept coming out too big at first. I should've paid more attention to Anita's advice about this quilt!)

Playing catch-up

You may have guessed that I haven't gotten much quilting done the last couple of weeks. I could have gotten some stuff done at my aunt's, really, I just didn't. It was too hectic around there. Actually, I did do a couple of small things: I washed a bunch of fabric (which I grabbed on the way out the door to evacuate, for some reason) and I ironed the batiks for the exchange and I cut two sets up out of the three. So that just leaves one to do tomorrow.

Oh, and I have a lovely second-degree burn on my wrist to prove that I did the ironing. I'm really, really glad it's October now, because September? Pretty much royally sucked from beginning to end. I know it could have been worse, because, you know, I'm here and I have a home to come back to and everything, but still, I hope I never, ever have another month like that one again.