Final Friday in Lawrence

Big Lettuce

Georgann Eglinski

Gerogann is showing some of her small quilts at the November 30th Final Friday art walk. The art space is the Art Party in the Hobbs-Taylor Loft space in the 700 block of New Hampshire from 5-9.

At Last a Lotus

Georgann Eglinski

from a pattern by Miriam Nathan Roberts

 

African Market II

Georgann Eglinski

 

Festival of Trees: Quilted Donations

 

 

The annual Festival of Trees is scheduled for Monday to Thursday, November 26 to the 29th at Liberty Hall in downtown Lawrence. It's a fundraiser for The Shelter.

The Sunflower Ladies Quilt Bee of KVQG is donating the quilt above with its tree and snowman. Members: Angela Barton, Florence Gilliland, Ginny Short, Mary Kay Chandler, Beverly Kipp, Barbara Lynch. Our Prez Lori Kukuk donated her quilting skills toward the project.

And Linda Frost is donating this quilt London Holly.

 

You have all week to admire the quilts (and the trees) and you can buy one or two at the auction on Tuesday night November 27.

For more about the schedule click here:

http://www.visitlawrence.com/events/5393/festival-of-trees

Information about The Shelter, Inc. can be found at:
http://www.theshelterinc.org/

Ruth Wins at Houston

 

Prairie Fire by Ruth Powers

 

If you go to the site that shows the winners of the quilt shows at the Houston Quilt Festival you will find one of Ruth's quilts. Click here to see the winners and click on the quilt to go into the webpage.

 

http://www.quilts.org/winners.html

In the contest Winners in Quilts: A World of Beauty, Ruth won The Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Artistry (A $5,000 award!)
Sponsored by Fairfield Processing Corporation.

Pretty nice work!

See more at Ruth's blog:
http://www.ruthpowersartquilts.com/weblog/