Feather Fantasy

I know the Painted Surface category at IQF was basically created for Hollis Chatelain, but I actually think this one is my favorite in that category:



But then I kind of have a thing for peacocks, anyway. -- Incidentally, I'm not saying that the category was created for Hollis' exclusive use or anything - but I do think it was created because of her, and because of the "controversy" over whether what she was making was a quilt at all. (People, it has multiple layers. It has quilting - an awful lot of quilting, for that matter. It's clearly a quilt, painted or pieced or not.)

Quilt above made by Kim Bradley of Sydney, Australia; from the judged show (category: Art-Painted Surface) at IQF 2007.

We have a winner

Have y'all been following the $100,000 Quilting Challenge? It flew under my radar for a good while, I guess, but I picked up a couple of issues of the magazine at IQF last fall, and there was an exhibit of some of the quilts there, too, so I got more interested. Well, in case you haven't seen this already, the 2006 winner was announced, and it's a whole-cloth quilt, quilted on a Gammill. It's called "Bella" and it was made by Linda McCuean, and Gina of Quilter's Buzz has some pictures up. I guess we have to wait on the new magazine to get more!