KVQG KAW Postings

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Viewers' Choice Awards

Ruth Powers won two Viewer's Choice Awards at the April quilt show.
Just Dandy won for the Small/Wall Quilt category.

And Spring Encounter won for the Lap/Crib quilt (which Janice says probably should have been labeled medium-size quilt)
Congratulations to Ruth for winning in the small and medium sized categories!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Foliage & Flowers From the Quilt Show

No names for these snapshots of nature. If you know who made them let us know in the comments.

Sara Chappell writes that she did the Yellow Coneflowers above. "I made the center using Ruth Powers' pattern and added the paperpieced border."

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Miniquilts

Marie Meyen

Amish Family Fun on a Rainy Day

Marie's mini was chosen the best mini at the nighttime April meeting

Detail

Tree of Life

Karen Hansen

Karen's won the daytime meeting award.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Nature Studies from the Quilt Show

Aspen Forest by

Mary Kay Fosnacht

An original design based on a photo.

Oak Leaf Hydrangea

Wendy Turnbull

Designed in a Ruth McDowell workshop here a few years ago.

Carol Gilham Jones

Oak Leaf Hydrangea

Carol took the same workshop and worked with the same plant

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Blogger's Viewer's Choice for Originality

Sue Chaffee

Scribbles

2011

Weren't you impressed with Sue's quilting and design on this little piece at the show?

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Eula's Block of the Month

The May morning show-n-tell brought this version of the

Block of the Month from a few years ago designed by Eula.

No name (so much for note-taking) but she said she

combined a Bonnie Hunter idea with the blocks she'd done and liked it.

A detail

And another version from the Quilt Show.

If you have any idea who made these quilts write a note in the comments.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Bee's Knees Many Mini's Challenge

Sarah at Sarah's Fabrics has a challenge for KVQG members. She will give you a free fat quarter of this yardage from Terrie Mangat's Free-Spirit line The Bee's Knees if you will agree to make a mini quilt for the 2012 Mini Auction at the quilt show.
Here's the rules

KVQG Members go by Sarah's in Lawrence to get your free fat quarter
Do whatever you want with it and make a mini quilt about 18" to 24".
Have the top finished by the July meeting and bring it.

There will be another Many Mini Challenge in July.

Here's more about the fabric at the
http://www.freespiritfabric.com/core-pages/gallery.php?gal_id=324&sw_id=4660&add=ok

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Chris Wolf Edmonds Exhibit

Chris Wolf Edmonds

Detail of

Wild Flowers & Pollination

Chris Wolf Edmonds, one of the founders of the KVQG,

has a show opening next week in Kansas City.

Opening reception: Thursday, May 26, 2011 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

An exhibition by Chris Wolf Edmonds titled “Studio Quilts drawn from Nature” will be on display at the Corridor Art Space (located within the Westport office of Gould Evans) beginning Thursday, May 26 and closing Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

The works in this show were constructed with hand painted and printed cotton fabric. Photo images by the artist were collected with a digital camera and downloaded to a computer where size, color and form were manipulated and then reproduced on cotton fabric and photo paper using a pigment based ink jet printer. The surfaces were pieced, layered with batting and backing fabric, machine quilted, mounted on hand painted boards and fronted with plexiglas.

Artist Statement: Kansas is a land bounded by horizons. The sweep of its terrain provides a stage for the spectacle of earth and sky, for the pageant of seasonal color shifts, for the parade of creatures across grasslands, water and flyways, for the grandeur of towering thunderheads and the grace of billowing grasses, for the rosy luster of dawn and the glow of sundown suffusing the air. All are part of a kaleidoscopic palette that makes my heart sing and provides a stimulus for my art.… for it is the nature of artists to manipulate the art of nature.

See Chris's beautiful website by clicking here:
http://www.chrisedmondsstudioquilts.com/Chris_Wolf_Edmonds/Chris_Wolf_Edmonds.html

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Best of Show Full Size Quilt

Ilyse Moore won best of show at our recent exhibit in the viewer's choice awards (full-size quilt) with her applique Paradise in Kansas quilt, machine quilted by Frieda Smith.

Here's a more accurate view of the color when it was a top

She adapted a center from

Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden

And the border from another Kretsinger design

called a Kansas Quilt, with a border of parrots

She thanked everyone in the guild who'd supported her in the year it took to make the quilt, as she'd brought it in various stages and was grateful for advice and encouragement.

The label

Barbara Brackman made the first draft of the patterns copied from the vintage quilts and Ilyse modified the drawings.

See Rose Kretsinger's Paradise Garden by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page
http://luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Kretsinger,+Rose+Frances+Good