| More Photos from Houston |
October 27, 2009 |
Good evening,
I need to let you know that I am still getting used to this "blogging" and it seemed to me the other day that my blog was acting temperamental. I couldn't really do what I wanted to, so ... that's why the first blog looks the way it does. I have since found out that it is temperamental, so I have to adjust to the way it works. Despite all that, I wanted to post some more photos. 
The first one is my quilt, who was accepted in the Miniature Category. It is called "The Shell Seekers (Buscadores de Caracoles)". And by the way, if any of you have the Program from the International Quilt Festival, the quilt name under my name is wrong. They got it mixed up with someone elses. By the way, "84 Carrots" is a lovely miniature quilt, and I will post a photo for you to see it. But first, here's "The Shell Seekers":
It started as a different project, and ended up being in the "maybe I will discard it" pile. On December 2008, during the holidays, I decided to either finish it or discard it. It started as a piece of painted Wonder Under. I painted the ocean s cene with acrylic paints, then it was fused on organza placed onto a piece of hand-painted silk (although you can't tell). A piece of tan silk complements the sand. The paint was adjusted, before and after the quilting was done. There is beading for the drops of water on the waves, and the foam. The three people are my two youngest children, Ale on the left and Sabrina on the right and myself, looking for shells in Pinamar (Buenos Aires - Argentina). It is approximately 20" x 21", and I loved the way it turned out. I am gla d I didn't discard it. It took a few months to get it finished, but ... voila! The next quilt I want to show you was made by Ruth Bloomsfield of Australia and is called "Puzzled". What an amazing job she did. I loved the effect of the pieces of puzzle still waiting to be fit. She used confetti quilting, free machine applique, hand applique, free machine embroidery and painting. Here is the quilt, and a detail shot: That is all for tonight. I will go get dinner ready. Thanks for reading. Ana Labels: Houston, quilting, The Shell Seekers
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| Back from Houston |
October 25, 2009 |
Good morning, I finally have a minute to sit down and blog. I am quite excited as m y website is coming along quite nicely. Eric has been busy creating and generally making it loo k great. It is his design, I just told him what I wanted, and he took it and run with it. I hope you'll be as impressed as I am. you'll be as impressed as I am. So, now I get to blog knowing that the end result will look great. I got back from Houston last Sunday, and have been meaning to post some photos. Houston was special this year. On the one hand, it meant that I would spend time with my friend Marcela who moved to The Netherlands in July and get to see my miniature quilt "The Shell Seekers" hanging among all the other artists' work. Here we are: from left to right: Chris from Dallas, Therese from Houston, Marcela from The Hague and I from Calgary. It also meant that I would meet with my friends from the quilting group in Buenos Aires, whom I haven't seen in over 5 years: Ceci, Tere, Caro, Estela and Lana who now lives in Chicago. Too bad I missed Julie who is i  n Florida. Julie if you are out there and reading this, please drop me a line. And here, below, are all of us having lunch. From left to right: Tere, Ana, Estela and Lana, standing: Ceci and Caro.
We spent two days at the show, walked for hours looking at the quilts and taking photos. What amazing work women, and men, produce. There were incredible works of art in every category, and of every size. I was awed by the quilts done by hand, most of them produced by Japanese artists, as that is something I don't do. I will share with you some of the photos I took. "On the Wings of a Dream" by Caryl Bryar Fallert, who won the $10,000 Handi Quilter Best of Show Award.  Two detail shots of the quilting, which was beautiful: I will post more photos later on in the day, and in the coming week. Until I blog again, keep quilting. Ana Labels: Buenos Aires, Houston, quilting
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