Papillon

I've been looking at my "interesting" page again, and obviously flickr does not equate interestingness with page hits, because the picture with the most hits - this one - is several pages in. This is a really lovely piece and everything - it's one of my favorites, really - but that still doesn't tell me where all those hits are coming from. I'm curious, and so far flickr is not giving me the answer, darnit. It's a mystery.

Mini-quilt above by Billie Standley; based on a Dierdra McElroy pattern. (Scroll down on that page and you'll see a picture of the pattern.)

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And in unrelated quilty news... my sewing room is taking shape, at least a little bit, and there has been ironing and cutting of fabric taking place there, and I made a visit to Office Depot earlier and now there is a new lamp in it, because it was way too dark in there. There's no overhead light, and I had a couple of lamps (and my mom's small Ott-Light) but it wasn't nearly enough. The new lamp is only 18 watts, but it puts out quite a lot more light than the 13-watt Ott lamp does. I put a better bulb in one of the other lamps, too, and between the two it doesn't look so gloomy in there any more. (Oh, and it was $20 cheaper than on the website, too - I wanted instant gratification and so I didn't figure I was getting the lowest price in the world but it's sort of nice to know it could've been worse!) (And who knew that Office Depot sold Ott Lights, anyway?)

Mother Earth and her Children

Mother Earth and her Children (detail), originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Sieglinde Schoen Smith of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; winner of Best of Show (and a $10,000 prize) at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival. (Entered in the category Art-Whimsical.)

I was looking at my "recent activity" page on flickr - it shows comments and what pictures people have favorited and so forth, it's always interesting to check - and one of the pictures of this quilt popped up. There are a bunch of pictures of this quilt starting here. At quilt festival last fall, I kept taking more pictures of it every time I went by. I can't say that I was all that impressed by it the first time I looked at it, but the more I looked the more impressed I got. The quilter was there, off & on, for one thing, and she showed the book the design came from - it was an old children's book, I believe she said she had it when she was a child. And she was very emphatic about the fact that every bit of the work in this was done by hand. Be sure and look at all the detail pictures if you have a chance, because the workmanship is really wonderful.

Carolyn started a Flickr pool for quilt festival pictures. Several people have already been adding stuff, so check it out!

Judaica quilts

Judaic quilt, originally uploaded by aviva_hadas.

Maker unknown.

In wandering around Flickr, I found user aviva_hadas, who has a whole set of pictures of Judaica quilts. Really cool stuff.