IQF Time Warp 3

I’m up after a whopping 3.8 hours of sleep, thanks to the teens (it’s only once a year)…I can’t even make tea, because it will make too much noise…I’m only up because one of the girls had to leave super early for a soccer tournament. Ugh. So what better time to finish off the IQF Time Warp of quilts I saw in Houston last November and haven’t had time to post? Yeah. I know. These are pieces that caught my eye…I can’t always explain why…

Lauren Strach created the brightly colored Saguaro Familia, in which she sees a mother and child saguaro.

I thought I had a closeup of the cacti themselves, because her technique was really interesting…lots of texture.

In the Holy Crap Someone Painted That Category is Annette Hendricks’ The Solace of Persephone.

Hendricks was very successful with the painting of Persephone, and the riotous addition of roses adds to the complexity of the piece. I suggest you check out the detail shots of her other quilts on her website…her stitching is amazing.

This quilt, Wings, by Rory Ross, intrigued me because of the work she did to make the tumbling blocks pattern overlay the wing pattern…

Apparently this is a fabric version of a painting she did earlier; it was done with Wonder Undered pieces and then machine-stitched with blanket stitch. Ross quit quilting in the 90’s due to back surgery and this was her re-entry…very interesting to look at up close.

Kathy McNeil created Heron Happiness using applique and sashiko-style quilting on silk dupioni (which just for the record is gorgeous but crazy).

The detail in this quilt is also amazing…on her website, you can see some of her other nature-based quilts (although the interface may drive you crazy)…she wrote an article for Quilters Newsletter about creating her quilts from front to back in applique, so she can move the main focus around on the background and make sure the background doesn’t overwhelm it.

From realism to abstraction…this is Beyond by Kathryn Botsford, part of the O Canada 2010 exhibit…yes, I wrote about her quilt in the new O Canada exhibit as well, so I must have a thing for her chaotic quilts…

This is based on Lonni Rossi’s Typospheres fabric line…reminds me of planets.

The next quilt uses a lot of negative space combined with art-nouveau-like florals…turns out this is Hisae Abe’s Istanbul’s Flower.

She based the quilt on her travels in Istanbul, which I would not have guessed. This is all hand-quilted.

This quilt is based on a tropical birds coloring book, but after looking at some of the coloring book pages online, Donna Gilbert did a lot of her own drawing to make Tropical Beauty.

I do love hand applique, and the trailing vines and colorful birds on this delicate quilt are beautiful.

By the way, the reason I didn’t finish this post yesterday is because WordPress is still deleting parts of my posts as I save them…so I had to rewrite half of what’s above this, and then I got frustrated, so I left it all day (well, there’s the part where I had to drive 5 hours roundtrip to Monrovia to pick up my car and go to a friend’s party and then catch up on some of that missed sleep)…I did finally send a message to WP and hopefully they will figure out what the issue is and fix it. Or not.

Anyway, here’s the rest…

I loved this quilt, but people were always standing in front of it and then I was getting tired of taking pictures anyway, so all I have is a single block…and I don’t know whose it is…and I googled around a bit but didn’t find it, so now I feel really lame about that…but it’s a really cool block!

Lots of tiny details and interesting fabric usage…this was not part of the Baltimore Album exhibit…

This quilt was essentially part crazy quilt, part kimono collection…this is Yoshimi Umemoto’s Dream Story…

based on a class with Sachiko Yoshida, using antique kimono fabrics. The movement across the quilt seems chaotic, but is quite controlled…look at the large flowers and the purple and beige checkerboard as it brings your eye across.

Cynthia Goodwin’s quilt Multiple Personalities has great balance from a distance…

but the best parts are close up…

Goodwin’s thread sketching is impressive and adds interest to the quilt.

This is Hale’aina by Kristin La Flamme…

I own one of her smaller house quilts, and I continue to like the larger pieces as well…the sense of rooting the house in the earth and her use of negative space are both appealing to me…as you can see, because I also have a picture of her Rooted X…

with its focus on the roots themselves.

I love the Andy Warhol aspect of Andrea L. Stern’s Marilyn, referring to Marilyn Monroe…

As Warhol did with Marilyn and soup cans, and Monet with his haystacks, Stern has focused on showing the water towers in all their sequined glory…in real life, this quilt sparkles. I love the bling associated with the object that so many of us ignore.

This piece was also in Long Beach and I had to take another close look at it…this is Shirley Gisi’s The Grandest of Them All…

A closeup shows you the details of her lines…which are quilted and then probably painted…

I thought it might be pen, but she lists painting as part of the process. The colors are gorgeous.

I did take pictures of some other quilts, but I think I had hit overwhelmed state, because looking at them now, I’m not that interested in them. If my mom blogged, you would probably see a picture of every quilt in the show…which might be more interesting for those who can’t go. I do know that I will miss seeing all the Houston quilts this year…it’s too bad that more of them don’t travel to the other IQF shows…trying to pull off a trip in early November, competing for school and soccer, is difficult, not to mention expensive. I guess I can put it on a 5-year plan? Maybe? We’ll see. The trip was definitely worth it…and I enjoyed it…but I probably won’t go again until I have a quilt that gets in. And no, I don’t actually enter the IQF show, so it’s like the lottery…I’m unlikely to win if I don’t buy a ticket. I’ll have to keep that in mind…especially after seeing Stitched and the awards ceremony.