Pics from Quilt Festival

At last, here are some pics from the 2010 Houston International Quilt Festival.  These are mostly "people pictures"; some of my favorite art quilts will be posted later today or tomorrow.

Leslie Tucker Jenison and Jamie Fingal at their demo table.

Leslie explaining her technique.

Leslie gets "demonstrative".

Jamie at her free-motion quilting demo.

Jamie's "Urban Footscape".

Jamie's contribution to the Silent Auction -- I bid, but didn't win it.

Jane Davila at her Make-It-U mini-workshop "Gyotaku fish printing"

Cheryl Johnson and I both lucked out and got into Jane's class!

Nancy Dickey and "Passages"

One panel of the Beneath the Surface exhibit -- with my "The Key" on the right.

"The Key" and Me.

Pokey Bolton and Maggie Winfield, just outside the Make-It-U classroom.

Maggie and I went to lunch one day, and as always, she drew admiring glances from everyone.

Speaking in Color

At last I can post pictures of a group quilt created by Mary Ann Littlejohn, Nancy B. Dickey, Connie Fahrion, Susan Fletcher King, Cheryl Johnson, and myself.

On August 26, 2010, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake opened its exhibit, "High Fiber & Raw Materials".  This was the debut of our group quilt entitled "Speaking in Color", and we were awarded a Juror's Choice award.

Mary Ann has posted a very nice slideshow of the opening on her blog, and here are a few of her pictures, plus some of my own photographs.  This was our fiber interpretation of a flower photo, divided into 6 parts, each 24" x 24".  We were happy to find a good professional photographer, Rick Wells, in Houston.

From left to right, top row:  Mary Ann Littlejohn, Nancy B. Dickey, Connie Fahrion.

From left to right, bottom row:  Susan Fletcher King, Cheryl Johnson, Linda Teddlie Minton

"Speaking in Color", hanging at the TAACCL Exhibit, 8-26-10.

Above is a single shot is of my piece, to show the wrapped-edge finishing that we used.  

The gallery canvases that we used were 2" deep.

Detail shot of my piece, to show the quilting and thread painting.

And finally, here is the back of my piece, including the label for the group

plus my own signature image label.

My Winning Friend

My friend Nancy Dickey had three (count 'em, THREE) quilts in the Houston Quilt Festival this year, and I wanted to show a few pictures. Two of them were ribbon winners!

The first one shown here is "Pond Poker", which took First Place in the Hoffman Challenge, Applique Division.

Here's Nancy, graciously posing as she's being beseiged by the paparazzi ...

Here's "Oleander", one of my all-time favorites:

And here's little "Serendipity", a 12-inch square beauty. It took IQA's Third Place, Art Miniature:

More pictures to follow later ...