A Quilt Exhibit

I thought I would just share this week what's happening in my quilting world. I was at a craft show last November in East Jordan, Michigan, and a woman from the Jordan Valley District Library picked up my card and later emailed me about exhibiting some of my quilts at the library.  They have rotating exhibits of area artists' work in the library.  I'm always glad to share my quilts with others in exhibits, so I loaded up a bunch of them on Monday and  drove to East Jordan (about 80 miles from me).  We kind of had to "make do" with the hanging, as they already had some hangers in place from a previous showing of quilts and they were all 48" apart.  So some are hung across two hangers, not all are perfectly straight, but they are hanging, and will be there through April 30. 

If you're in the area, stop in and see them in person.  The library hours are M-F 9-5.  I don't remember Saturday hours.  The library is right next to the high school.  Also the Jordan River Art Center has an exhibit of sketchbook art from various artists that looks pretty interesting, so you could take in both of them.

 Split Rock Sunset.  The young man in the photo came into the library as we were hanging the quilts and seemed pretty "wowed" by them.  I promised I would not put his picture on the web, that I would crop the photo, but I did want to show the tops of heads so you could see that the quilts are not behind barriers, but right out where people can get up close to them.  (The librarian assured me that they have no trouble with people handling the quilts.)

The Toy Shelf.   The first quilt I made using freezer paper piecing, in 1988.  It was a finalist in the "Memories of Childhood" contest sponsored by the  Museum of American Folk Art.

Next to Split Rock Sunset is Fundy, a quilt I made as a memory of a vacation my husband and I took in New England, where we visited a lot of lighthouses.

I had to back down the aisle between the book shelves to take this picture of Flow River Flow, a quilt made from a photo of my grandson standing on rocks in a river (where he was not supposed to be).

Through Sunshine and Shadows hangs right near the circulation desk.  It was made for the Museum of American Folk Art's "Discover America" contest, and was a finalist.

Not Quite Amish, Not Quite Wholecloth is a small wall hanging which is heavily quilted, though it's hard to see here.  Next to it is Sunflowers and Sunset Ridges, an interpretation of a photo I took in the Badlands.  I wasn't able to get a straight shot of it, but will blog about it sometime in the future.

Fresh Snow.  Even though right now I'm sick of snow, this is one of my favorite quilts.

Little Grandma, It's Been a Long Winter, and Heartsong.  The latter two are shown again below.  Little Grandma was made from a photo of my great-great grandmother, who died before I was born, but my mother spoke quite fondly of her.

It's Been a Long Winter.  Yes it has, but this quilt was made several years ago, near the end of another long winter, when I was craving color, something other than white.

Heartsong.  This was a real challenge for me, using Ricky Tims' technique which he calls "rhapsody", starting with a square of paper folded in eighths.  I'm not fond of curved piecing, and this quilt has a LOT of it.  No, it is not appliqued, but entirely pieced.







I hope you've enjoyed this little show of some of my quilts, and I'm sure they will find their way into my blogs at a later date, where I can share the stories of each of them in more depth.  Until then-----

Do you have a favorite one?