It was an art-filled weekend…and somehow I managed to get a healthy chunk of grading done too. I’m only planned for one grade through Wednesday, maybe, though, so something fell through the cracks. Or I just don’t know how much I can get done in the next two days, so I need to play it by ear. Scary when you’re doing labs though. I need those planned ahead of time. But the lab I was going to do Tuesday, I need to be able to prep before school or after the day before, and I can’t do that for Tuesday…staff meetings and parent meeting. So it got pushed to Wednesday and the thing before it takes up an unknown amount of time. So there’s that. Scrambling a bit.
Quilt Visions opened this weekend. I made it to Friday night’s preview, Saturday morning’s opening and my ‘stand-in-front-of-my-quilt’ time (which was really a long, interesting conversation with one of the other artists), and the dinner on Saturday night. The best part of any of these events is talking to other artists; I really enjoyed that.
I especially enjoyed hanging out with Sheila Frampton Cooper; hadn’t seen much of her since she moved to France, but now she’s back.
I tried to take photos of the space more than the quilts…really, seeing them in person is always better.
Niraja Lorenz won Best of Show with this fascinating piece; I enjoyed talking to her about it (although forgot to get a photo of her)…
Visions is not a huge space…
But they managed the show well…here is Dianne Firth’s piece, always cool to see the shadows her work makes…
And Irene Roderick drew on hers! I loved that bit…
The wall with my piece and two other interesting pieces…
Phil Jones’ heart…
Another view…
A closeup of Libby Williamson’s piece…
And look! I actually took a picture of a piece with the artist.
Sometimes my brain works.
I had a cool conversation with Susan Lapham of the second quilt from the left.
There are a couple of sections I just didn’t remember to photograph…
I tried!
Meanwhile, I did come home on Saturday and pinbasted the current quilt…
After finishing stitchdown on Friday night with Kitten’s interference…
The last time this will be seen…
Before it’s sewn into the quilt…
Pinbasting on my knees is never really fun, but this was quick…
Mostly because I had a deadline to be back at Visions for dinner…
I raided the stash of another quilter who left me a bunch of fabric when she moved…found two full yards of fabric to piece for the backing…
I was playing with all these pieces when I realized I only needed the purple and the green. Good use of them.
The dogs have been playing a bit. Sort of. Mostly Simba trying to play and Katie yelling about it.
Poor Simba…
Last night, I started quilting finally…only about 6 weeks after my original plan.
Still with Kitten in the way…
This week is a little chaotic, so I’m hoping to get an hour done a night, maybe a little more. But we’ll see. I do need to get to school, though, even though I have a few more photos of the show that need resizing, and normally I would add all the names and links. I’ll try to add those later. But for now, need to get to school and do a lab and I don’t remember what else. Yikes. I wish I had a better handle on it. But I don’t.
Kathy Nida 