Peace

I'm on a green kick!

Quilt above made by Suzanne Marshall; from the Faculty Showcase at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Web of Life

Web of Life, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Ann Horton of California; entered in the judged show (category: Computer-Aided Machine Embroidery) at the 2007 Houston International Quilt Festival.

But Can He Sing?

But Can He Sing?, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Roberta Williams of Milwaukee; entered in the category Innovative Applique, Large at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

Journal quilts by Ami Simms - and an interview

From the exhibit "Journal Quilt Project 2006: A Page From My Book" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

There's a good interview with Ami Simms up, as part of the Save Our Stories project. It makes me want to make something to send in to Ami's Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. (Actually, I think I have an idea about something to do for that. More later, if it pans out.)

(I think I've posted this picture before, but it seems to be the only thing of Ami's I have a picture of! Besides, they're related to the AAQI and they're cool.)

Everyday Best

Everyday Best, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Becky Goldsmith, Sherman, Texas. From IQF 2004.

Becky Goldsmith is one of the Piece O'Cake ladies so I bet this is in a book somewhere.

It's Pink

It's Pink, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This is a bit blurry but I think you can get the idea.

Quilt above made by Betty Carpenter and Kim Shalom. From the 2004 Dallas Quilt Celebration.

I guess the Dallas quilt show is coming up soon, actually. Anybody going?

Progress report

I haven't gotten too far on this, but I thought I'd post the progress on the sashing. I'm not far from finishing - the third row is partly done, too. I really should get back to it and get it over with. Assembling blocks has never been my favorite part of quilting.


Adding: I also haven't posted a picture of the sewing room, now that it's actually functional (if not exactly beautiful):



That pole sticking up on the right is the Ott-Light that I bought at Office Depot, which I love. It has a very different bulb in it than any other Ott I've ever seen, but it works just fine.

Drink

Drink
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Here's a water quilt I don't remember ever featuring before; it was made by Joan Sowada of Wyoming and entered in the category Art-People, Portraits, and Figures at the 2005 International Quilt Festival.

Water Quilt: Reflections

I put up a picture of this quilt before, but that was 18 months ago and I know everybody doesn't look at archives. And it fits with my water theme that I've been doing lately - so what the heck, we'll repeat. Besides, it's a great quilt.

Quilt above made by Cyndy Martin. Shown at Lakeview Quilters Guild's 2006 Mayfest quilt show.


Also, would you believe a hand-pieced Dear Jane? (That link from churlish over at Livejournal.)

I put the next few quilt shows from the list I posted earlier over in the sidebar. Now we'll see if I remember to update it in a couple of weeks!

Oh, and I called my aunt to see if she was interested in going to a show this summer, and she is. (I kinda figured she would be, she likes to travel, in general!) So we are tentatively planning on going to Columbus in June, that being the best compromise of dates and distance, etc, that we could come up with so far. I looked at hotel prices but not plane fares, yet, I hope they're not too high.

Upcoming quilt shows

This is an expanded (but not necessarily complete) edition of what I started in the last entry: "major" US quilt shows in the next year:

Feb 21-24: Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA
Feb 28-Mar 2: Quilt Festival of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
Mar 27-30: Quilters' Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA
Apr 11-13: International Quilt Festival-Chicago, Rosemont, IL
Apr 23-26: AQS Quilt Show & Contest, Paducah, KY
May 1-4: Denver National Quilt Festival, Denver, CO
June 19-21: NQA Quilt Show, Columbus, OH
July 12: Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, Sisters, OR
July 24-27: Quilt Odyssey, Hershey, PA
July 25-27: International Quilt Festival (new summer edition), Long Beach, CA
Aug 20-23: AQS Quilt Expo, Nashville, TN
Sept 4-7: Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Harrisburg, PA
Sept 18-21: World Quilt and Textile on Tour (whatever that is!), Manchester, NH
Oct 8-11: AQS Quilt Expo, Des Moines, IA
Oct 16-19: Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
Oct 30-Nov 2: International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
Nov 13-16: Greater Chicago Quilt Expo, Schaumberg, IL
Jan 15-18, 2009: Road to California, Ontario, CA

I didn't link these individually, but here are the links: Quilts Inc (which is IQF), AQS, NQA, Quilt Odyssey, QHC, road2ca, Sisters, and QuiltFest for the rest.

(I'm sure I've missed some things and I will gladly take suggestions - but please don't everybody send me the dates for their local quilt show, or this will get out of hand fast!)

Seagrapes - and quilt shows

"Seagrapes" (above) made by Sarah Louise McClean of Fort Lauderdale; entered in the judged show (category: Art-Naturescapes) at the 2007 Houston International Quilt Festival.


I was thinking about making a list of upcoming big quilt shows, and I haven't really gotten very far yet (and you don't know with me whether I ever will!), but FYI, here's the ones for this year from the quiltfest.com people:

Feb 21-24: Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, Virginia
Feb 28-Mar 2: Quilt Festival of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
May 1-4: Denver National Quilt Festival, Denver, CO
Sept 4-7: Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Harrisburg, PA
Sept 18-21: World Quilt and Textile on Tour, Manchester, NH
Oct 16-19: Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
Nov 13-16: Greater Chicago Quilt Expo, Schaumberg, IL

I seem to have the jones to go to a quilt show. I actually went so far as to look up how much the fare would be to fly to Norfolk on the 22nd. (The cheapest on Southwest was $357 round-trip, which isn't TOO too horrible, but I'm not sure how my husband would react if I decided just to fly halfway across the country all suddenly like that!) What I think I'd really like to do is to plan something for this summer. Then I'm like, do I want to ask my aunt to come with me? Do I want to go by myself? I don't really mind doing stuff like that by myself. Sometimes it's easier - you can just do what you want to do and not worry about pleasing anybody else, you know?

Anyway, that decision can come later, if I ever even get that far. I came up with summer because we're going to Ohio in April already and I don't want to schedule myself too heavily. What quilt shows are in the summer? I know Columbus is, but my mother-in-law would kill me if I came to Columbus and didn't go see her. What else? Sisters, but that would be awfully expensive. And I guess there's that new Quilts Inc one in California, too. Is there anything else I'm forgetting? (Is there someplace where there's already a calendar?) I may have to do some more research!

Vacation

Continuing with the water theme. (I can go on a good while with this by the way, I have quite a few even if I limit myself to ones I haven't shown here before!)

Quilt above made by Keiko Kitamura of Hyogo-Ken, Japan; shown in the judged show (category: Art-Pictorial) at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Wading in Water

Wading in Water, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Marsha Hennigan. Shown at Lakeview Quilters Guild's Mayfest quilt show, 2006.