Some incredible art quilts at SAQA auction

A few of my favorite art quilts being auctioned at the 2015 SAQA Benefit Auction, starting today. I'll add more pictures tomorrow, but you should look and start bidding now!

Artist hand-dyed cotton broadcloth, muslin, and sateen, cotton fleece, batting,
buckram, and thread, and tulle. Machine piecing, pillow-casing, and quilting.
Tulle and snaps hand sewn. (SOLD)

Hand dyed fabric, paint, stitch, digital transfer, monoprint.

Commercial and originally printed fabrics, paint, thread, embroidery floss;
fused applique, surface design, free motion quilting, hand embroidery

Cotton and silk fabrics.  Raw-edge applique and free-motion quilting.  Satin-stitched
edge treatment and acrylic on cotton, stamped, textured and lightened with a thin
Gesso wash.  Tsukineko Inks used for highlights and shadows.

Did anybody say information overload .....Yesterday's news is old,
and today's news is often old an hour later.

Commercial fabrics, wool roving, fused machine applique.

Hand painted cotton.  Machine quilted.

cotton fabrics: painted (inked), discharged, screenprinted by the artist
from her original photographs, machine pieced, machine quilted.

SAQA auction

The Return of The Fabulous Maggie

I just received these pictures of my friend Maggie Winfield's latest red-carpet outfit for the upcoming Houston International Quilt Festival, and she gave me the OK to share them here.

As you know, Maggie is an irrepressible free spirit, and loves to express herself in her hand-crafted clothing, usually retrofitted from thrift-store finds. She is always, always, The Fabulous Maggie!

She started with this find, which she purchased solely for the train alone ... here it is before she even touched it.

The train

The lining of the train ... this is the "fabulous" part!

The beginning ...

This sparkle-enhanced velvet corset started out as a jacket.

The Fabulous Maggie ... in one iteration of the outfit.
Here, she's wearing the black velvet corset.

The fabulous back view.

With different vest, polka-dot leggings ... I love it!

aaaannnnd .. the back view. Fabulous, right?

Maggie says she ended up cutting off almost 20" of the train. I think it was a great success, and can't wait to see this outfit in person at Houston.

QuiltCon 2015

In my excitement over getting ready for the Houston International Quilt Festival coming up at the end of October, I suddenly remembered that I had never posted my pictures from the Modern Quilt Guild's QuiltCon from earlier this year.

Here are a few of my favorite quilts from that show.

33 by Gabriella Kirst

Citrus Wedge by Jen Carlton Bailey

Citrus Wedge - detail

CPU by Katherine Jones

Squaring the Circle by Jo Avery

Steal This Quilt by Chawne Kimber

Little Brother by Stacey Murton

Tessellation 3 by Nydia Kehnle

Tessellation 3 - detail

Moving Target by Christine Perrigo

The American Context 16 - Christina's World
by Luke Haynes

The American Context 16 - Christina's World - detail

Barb Knoblock, me, and Lynn Douglass in back row,
Betty Baker and Sharon Dixon in front.
(FMLC Plus One!)
We are all longarm quilters, and long-time friends.