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A note of thanks.

At Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival this past weekend, there was a large quilt that featured a very large pink bicycle. The background was foliage and maybe floral in style, IIRC. It was very well executed and the colors were delightful. You will probably see the quilt in magazines or at other shows.

I just do not understand how it won the award for Best Interpretation of Theme!! The premise was the Show was celebrating Virginia's 400th Anniversary, since Jamestown was started in 1607, with the theme of "exploration." Bicycles just do NOT suggest exploration of the New World to me! I would have thought a quilt evocative of the Anniversary would be more appropriate for the award. There were several that would qualify, and they were very well executed.

PAT > One of my ideas, which I am still working on designing, is a bicycling

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Pat in Virginia
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Sounds fascinating! What immediately sprang to mind was a postcard graphic I used to see rather often in Denmark (good biking country) of a stylized bike silhouette against sky/fields in strong bright blocks of color. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

I agree that the bicycle was not particularly relative to Virginia. There was not any bicycle mfgrs that I can remember that had any relationship to Virginia, but I could be foggy on some local mfgrs. The only thing I can think of is that the bicycle was one of the most significant technological developments of the 19th century and was one of the things that started the liberation of women from the straight laced Victorian world and therefore (might) be of interest to people. Probably just the whole view of the bicycle in the out of doors and the thematic whole that the quilt created and had nothing to do with Virginia as such. My .02 worth.

John

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John

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:36:15 -0600, Pat in Virginia wrote (in article ):

But lots of us "explored" our neighborhoods on our bicycles when we were growing up.

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

OOOH, that'd be cool. And I want to do one based on a penny-farthing.

Jenn >> Bicycling, huh? My DH is obsessed! But hey, while he's out cycling, I'm

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Jenn/Jalynne

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