Today at the Pensacola FL quilt show they had an exhibit that I thought was terrific. Named "Quilting Does Matter". Ten or so identical quilts about a yard square, Irish Chain, blue squares on white. Every one was quilted in a different manner by a different quilter. To participate in the exhibit, the quilters had to have been paid to quilt at least one quilt in the past. (That didn't make much sense to me but didn't matter either.) Just every manner of quilting you can think of - loose, random FM, tiny tight McTavish, lovely hand-stitched, long-armed of various levels, a couple of 'domestic' machines (as contrasted with 'wild' you suppose?) and one Beautifully feathered. Even one who did portraits of dog breeds that was awesome. I don't know if it was a new idea or one everybody's done but I surely did enjoy it. Ah. Yes. Quilting does matter. Wish you could have been there. Polly
Wonderful idea for a quilt show
Mar 18, 2012
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I have a book somewhere, yes somewhere but don't ask me where, that has several quilts made four times but each quilted differently to show just that. That how you quilt a quilt can make a difference. I made several color overheads for the art teacher one year after she looked at the book. Used them in a lesson for her kids.
Wish I could have seen these too.
Steven Alaska
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:47:56 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):
That sounds lovely! We had a special non-competition display at our show of quilts that had been quilted by various guild members. Most of them were on some variation of a longarm or midarm machine.
Maureen
That would also be a great idea fcor a guild challenge!
Allison
That would also be a great idea fcor a guild challenge!
Allison
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