"Medium size" quilts--REQG show round 2

I have a bunch o' great quilt pics taken in the 'medium room' yesterday. There was also a large quilt room and a third room with small quilts, group quilts and wearable art. Over 350 entries and some great vendors, too. Really makes for a nice event. I stayed for a while yesterday and helped break it all down. yikes...can't imagine doing it every year like I know many guilds do.

   

Many women these days are endeavoring to create ART in the world of quilting. It ain't yo' grandma's quilting anymore!

 

Cheryl Pekar took digital photos of our guild's opportunity quilt and ran them through a mosaic-creator software program, printed them on fabric and proceeded to craft this amazing quilt. There are 500 Swarovski crystals on it and she used a bleach discharge method for creating the border. She also made this next amazing quilt

 

Again, she took photos of the dragon fabric she was working with and digitally manipulated it for the circle centers. She also painted over doilies to create the orange circles. Really incredible work!

 

  

The free form, the quilting, the pearls and crystals (which are hard to see here) just really WOWed me on this one

 

Here's some that are all about the quilting. Most by machine, I believe.

 

 

Here's my selvage quilt. I didn't like where it was placed but as I walked around doing my White Glove Lady job I did notice it made a lot of people smile when they realized what it was.

  

  

 

This next one won viewer's choice award in the Medium quilt category

I know those leaves are raw edge applique, but I can't quite figure how she created the multiple fabric effect.

This next one is fun. All one inch squares...a pixelated effect that really works because she uses mostly flowered fabrics in the flowered mid section. The butterflies are also a nice touch. I think this one would be do-able for most quilters.

A couple more *approachable* pieces--

 

I love the 'paintchip' effect of the one on the right.

I did like where they put my abc quilt. It was the first thing one saw as they walked into the room. Hello happy!

 

This next one was a very sweet idea. The quilter had everyone in the family she could think of sign a scrap of white fabric, and then she sewed all the 'autographs' into the border. It was a gift to her mother for her 90th birthday.  

I'll close with a fabulous piece a la Freddy Moran & Gwen Marston.  The artist is Jody Rusconi and everything I've seen her do is awesome.

 

Hope you enjoyed these, and remembered you can click and enlarge any you want to see closer. I'll be back soon with shots from the Large quilt room. :-)

Comments

[natalie hansen]

Your quilts are beautiful...I especially love the selvage one!!!

[black eyed susans kitchen]

Gorgeous, stunning quilts!
♥, Susan

[nanette]

I'm so not into arty quilts. I really . . . well I won't go into that. YOur quilt was absolutely my favorite. That and the scrap quilt. Good job! It is really fabulous.

[BrendaLou]

Thanks Jen for the pictoral documentation of the show. I regreat that when I vend a show I really can't take the time I'd like to really examine the quilts closely. You preserved some of them for me! Great to see you today.

[Sue]

Thanks for sharing! I love seeing pictures from quilt shows, wish I could go to all of them!

[dotti white]

Thanks, Jen, for sharing all of the beautiful quilts. Many creative people--one especially who created a wonderful alphabet quilt that I love!

[Kathi D]

I enjoy seeing the art quilts, but they really aren't my thing. I like the traditional styles, with or without a "twist." Both of yours are definitely my style! And that last one is really fabulous--would fit right in at my house. Of course, my house is pretty eclectic, so almost anything could be shoehorned in here.

I just got the Accuquilt Go cutter a few days ago. Haven't cut a quilt with it yet, just played around, but I can tell already I am going to LOVE it, because I really don't like cutting--I like sewing. Actually, I don't know anybody who likes cutting. My local quilt shop owner says some of her customers get their husbands to cut for them--the husbands think it's sort of "engineer-y." I know I would never get my husband to cut quilts for me. He is very helpful about most everything, but sewing? Not so much.