I always liked this quilt a lot. I guess other people did too, because it won Viewer's Choice at our guild's quilt show - that must've been in 1998, because it also was at IQF in 1998. Made by Carolyn Allison.
Quilt above by Angelique Hartman. This picture is from Mayfest 1998, but I know this quilt was also in an IQF exhibit at some point since then.
This pattern interests me, because it is similar but not identical to the Faceted Jewels pattern I used for this quilt - it's a two-block quilt and I guess the alternate blocks are different. OR... now that I look at it, I think it may be put together very differently. I'm going to have to look at this some more later, when I have time.
I tend to avoid talking about quilts I don't like, but... well, I won't say I hate this one, but it's a bit much, isn't it?
I don't know for sure that "Chinese Coins" is the name of this quilt, but it's what popped into my head when I looked at the picture, so it might be. (Or might not, you never know about my memory.) I don't know who made it, either - this is another one of those 1998 pictures, from back before I ever knew I would be putting all these pictures up on the web for all to see someday. Anyway, I like this. Sort of Chinese Coins in watercolor. And then those diagonal lines going across it, to make it more interesting.
Watercolor was very big in 1998. I think I have a couple more pictures of watercolor quilts that haven't made their way to Flickr yet.
This is Japanese baseball player Hideo Nomo, for those of you who aren't the kind of baseball fan who would automatically know these things. (Nomo has a very distinctive pitching style; I looked at it and immediately knew who it was, even though it's been a while since I saw him pitch.)
It's a great depiction of Nomo, but one thing that struck me about it is the background - it's a very simple scrap background, but it's amazingly effective as a stand-in for a crowd of people. I wouldn't've thought it would work, but it does.
The quilt above is "American Dream - Hideo Nomo" by Fusako Sakaguchi. This was (I believe) part of a special exhibit at IQF 1998.
