A new Mom quilt

Mom: watercolor-like scrap quilt, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Well, the quilt's not actually new, of course, but the picture is. (I found a bunch more quilt pictures, actually, I just haven't had time to scan them.) Anyway, this appears to be one of her scrap quilt efforts, and I think it's the best of the bunch. It has sort of a watercolor effect that's very nice.

Quilt above by Billie Standley.

Past IQF ribbon winners: Flower Garden

Quilt above made by Hiromi Yoneyama of Japan; 1st place winner in the category Handmade at the 2005 International Quilt Festival. (I love these Japanese quilts with the taupes.)


Oh, I have not said that we are finally (finally!) moving next month. And I will finally have my sewing room! Hooray!

Past ribbon winners: Folk Art & Tulips

Quilt above made by Margaret Docherty of Durham, U.K.; 3rd place winner in the category Traditional Applique at the 2005 International Quilt Festival. (I am partial to good folk art, so I like this one a lot.)

Past IQF ribbon winners: Kashmir

Piece above made by Jo Grooms of Washington; 1st place winner in the category Art-Abstract, Small at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

(Take a look at the giant-size version if you like this; it's rather spectacular, really!)

Goodbye, Laurel

I was very sad to hear that Laurel Burch has passed away. She was 61. I have been admiring her jewelry for 25 years or so, and still haven't bought a pair of those earrings! (Maybe I should, in her honor.)

Come to that, I don't think I've bought any of her fabric, either. I like it - her colors are very much my style - but I always have trouble deciding what to do with those big prints.




She had new fabric coming out this fall, from Clothworks, above.



This is a block my mother made for an exchange. She was provided with the LB cat in the center, which was made with an embroidery machine. (A look at Laurel's licensee page says that that Oklahoma Embroidery Supply sells the cards for that.)

(I put the cool little Amazon widget with some of her stuff up. I'll leave it for a couple of weeks, assuming it works right!)

Last year's ribbon winners: Square Root Cubed 3

Quilt above made by Joan Frantz of Ft. Myers, Florida; winner of 2nd prize in the category Innovative Pieced, Small at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

(Hey, I happened to notice that last post was my 666th, for what that's worth! Interesting.)

Last year's ribbon winners: Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Claudia Clark Myers and Marilyn Badger of Duluth, Minnesota; winner of 3rd prize in the category Two Person at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

I was looking at that list I posted the other day, of entrants for this year, and I started randomly plugging names from that list into the flickr search box, and I came up with this. Marilyn Badger and somebody who is not Claudia Clark Myers have a quilt entered this year. I had forgotten all about this quilt. The colors are lovely, though.

(I'm always saying that I had forgotten all about this or that quilt from my pictures, like I ought to remember all of them. Really, I think the size of my picture collection has grown past the point where I can remember them all, though. I remember an awful lot of them, and that's doing pretty well, on the whole!)

Last year's IQF ribbon winners: Among Giants

Among Giants, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Quilt above made by Pat Durbin of Eureka CA; winner of 1st prize in the category Art-Naturescapes at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Past IQF ribbon winners: Windswept

Quilt above made by Nancy Dickey of Magnolia, TX. From IQF 2003. (The ribbon appears to be third place. I love this quilt, but I know from long experience that the judges don't use the same criteria I do.)


There's a list of finalists up on the IQA website. A lot of what you might call the usual suspects are there - i.e., those past ribbon winners I've been featuring here lately. But there's always some new faces, too.

Summer Wind

Summer Wind, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Piece above made by Larkin Jean Van Horn; from the exhibit "Small Wonders VIII" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Past ribbon winners: Sawtooth X

Sawtooth X, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Kathleen McCrady of Austin; 1st place winner in the category Traditional Pieced at the 2005 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Last year's ribbon winners: Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Gabrielle Paquin of Orleans, France; winner of a Judge's Choice award in the category Art-Pictorial at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Another Paquin quilt (or well, part of one - a detail picture) here.

Past ribbon winners: Innovative Pieced

Quilt above is "Stellar Nursery" - made by Ann Harwell of North Carolina. Second place winner in the category Innovative Pieced, Small at the 2005 Houston International Quilt Festival.

I was thinking I would post a series of past ribbon winners, and I found this one, which I like quite a lot. Not many people do arty quilts with commercial fabrics, probably because it strands you competitively between the "traditional" quilt world and the "art quilt" one, which mostly seems to expect you to dye your own fabrics. You notice this was not entered in an art quilt category. (I have a couple more pictures of Ann Harwell's quilts - here and here - but those are both much more pictorial than this.)

Past ribbon winners: Innovative Applique

Quilt above made by Liz Jones of Herefordshire, U.K. Second place winner in the category Innovative Applique, Small at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

Last year's ribbon winner: traditional pieced

Made by Toni Foster of Pittsford NY; winner of 1st prize in the category Traditional Pieced at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Enciadina

Enciadina, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Trudy Kleinstein; from the exhibit "Culture of my Country" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.