IQF Time Warp 2

I love that it takes me 9 months to finally get through all these photos. I’ll still be writing about the Scandinavian trip in 2012 probably.

This funky quilt is Color Comes to Back of Beyond, and is based on a colored-pencil drawing by Pauline McPharlin. The quilters are Janice Munzberg, Pam Holland, Pauline McPharlin, and Jeanette Coombes.

The group has done an amazing job making a drawing into a quilt, with the elements coming in from the left and the thread-painting used throughout the piece.

I wish there were somewhere they had written about the process they used; with 4 people involved, one of them a teacher, I’m curious how the delegation of work happened.

Here’s another piece of it.

This one looks like knees and legs to me, all under a big patchwork quilt. This is Pinnacle by S. Cathryn Zeleny, the title implying nothing to do with knees, of course.

The only other image I could find of a Zeleny quilt used a traditional quilt pattern to create these 3D shapes just like this one.

I know this is at a lousy angle, but there were 7 million people in front of this award-winning quilt, Mary Simon Rediscovered, by Nancy Kerns.

The pattern for the Baltimore blocks is a reproduction of a quilt by Mary Simon and can actually be purchased from the DAR Museum in Washington DC. Kerns designed the floral border herself and tried to stay true to the colors of the original piece. I’m a sucker for a nicely done Baltimore Album…it’s better to collect pictures of them than to try to do it myself, right?

I also like crazy quilts, and this one had a unique setting. This is Linda Steele’s Eastern Elements.

I’ve shown her crazy quilts here before (like one a year, I think).

The detailed embroidery and the settings for the blocks make her quilts stand above and beyond many crazy quilts.

Allison Aller’s Crazy in the Garden was inspired by the spring weather in her own garden.

Aller’s control of the color in this piece is very impressive. If you read her blog, you can watch her put this quilt together and make decisions about what goes where. Unfortunately, this piece went missing from a recent quilt market in Salt Lake City, Utah, along with 3 other quilts. C&T Publishing is offering a reward; details are here.

This is Kathy York’s Doors Across Austin.

You can read her statement about this particular quilt here. She dedicates the quilt to her son, who is autistic and doesn’t like change but does like novelty and bright colors. Although I photographed this quilt before I knew it was about her son, it was the mention of Temple Grandin that made me look twice. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman, writer, professor, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and doctor of animal science who has spoken up for many autistic people, showing the rest of the world that autism is not some sort of strange disease, but advocates early interventions and teaching coping skills. She has written a book about what it was like to grow up autistic, I’ve seen her in a few documentaries, and she has changed how the livestock industry deals with restraining and slaughtering animals, suggesting more humane ways to accomplish the tasks. In the video I watched, she actually gets in pens with the cows and lies down on the ground to get them to respond to her. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow is available online in pieces. I linked to the first portion on YouTube, if you’re interested. I’ve watched the whole thing…she has interesting comments on her childhood and her understanding of the bovine mind and how they’re linked.

This is Betsy Abbott’s Tidepool Treasure. This piece has lots of details…

but the bird’s head intruding on the sealife below is what really makes it interesting.

This is Rachel Wetzler’s The World, including work using Inktense pencils and Micron pens.

She writes a little bit about making the quilt on her blog, showing her inspiration from an antique map. Some of the animals are painted directly on the fabric and some are fused on. If you search through her posts for those titled The World, you can see some details and get more information about how she created each portion of the quilt. Note Adam and Eve peeking out in the center middle.

It’s an orange rhinoceros with blue hooves…it’s actually quite a beautiful creature, My Rhino by Pam Holland (same Pam as the one above, I believe).

This is an Albrecht Durer illustration from a few years back (1500 AD). He looks a little cranky carrying all that armor.

The totem pole is beautiful, but the delicate lines of the trees really make it stand out. This is Promise Fulfilled by Kathy Quinn Arroyo.

This is not a real totem pole; she studied the meanings of the different creatures and made a pole specifically for her family.

This is a very long and narrow quilt that is a study for a quilt reproduction of the entire Bayeux tapestry, a mere 238 feet long. This is Pam Holland again, who seems to have a lot more free time than I do, and is producing some very interesting work in that time…

Here is a closeup of one of the sections, so you can see the incredible detail she is putting into this sample.

I love his mustache. What’s also interesting is that I really didn’t pay attention to who made quilts when I took photos in Houston…I just took photos of what I liked and then a photo of the card, but I didn’t read the cards most of the time. I was all into the visual experience and didn’t want to mess it up with words…so for many of these, it’s the first time I’ve read the statement (or connected the fact that I photographed multiple quilts by the same artist).

This doorway was stunning. This is Facade by Melissa Sobotka, who compares the crumbling doorway to her own aging self, finding the original structure still apparent.

This doorway is in Tuscany.

This quilt reminded me of some drawings we did in my beginning Visual Arts classes in college, where we drew real objects and then combine them all into one drawing, then erased bits and pieces to get a final composition. This is actually a train; the piece is called The 844, by Lynne Pillus.

I like the mix of all the parts; you can tell it’s part of a train, but it’s not obvious and it’s colorful too.

A Noriko Endo piece…they seem to get more delicate as she gets more experience with her own technique. This is Radiant Reflections #2…

She writes that she is working on a series of reflection pieces, and you can see the orange of the leaves in the water.

The strange shapes and traditional blocks in the sky caught my eye with this piece, Sandstorm over the White Desert, by Jenny Bowker.

When she travels, she photographs people (and stuff) and then makes quilts from her photographs. The background may have originally caught my eye, but it was the face that made me photograph the quilt…

And check out the sandstorm building up in the quilting behind him.

I obviously will need one more post to get through all of these…plus I am trying to get quilting done in between. Really. I am. It is nice to go back and review these from November, though.