So I won't show the quilts in this blog post because I don't have permission to do that and I am too scared of the copyright police, but you can see about 80,000 photos if you google Gee's Bend quilt images.
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1) the riotous (exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse) use of colour in many of the quilts...
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2) amazing, free form hand quilting....
3) hand quilting through denim and corduroy...
4) complete disregard for matching seams and no worrying about missing points...
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5) use of all the little scrappy bits...
I was totally inspired to not worry so much about the things that I have been told make a quilt "show worthy", and instead to focus on the things that make a quilt meaningful. I was totally pumped to rush home and do some hand quilting...and to remember that the stitches don't have to be tiny or perfect to give great texture on a quilt.
But, it's been about a month since I pin basted this quilt for machine quilting, so I thought I better get to work on that one!
5 comments:
I live in said city and didn't get to go!!! :( :(
I really have been bummed about that but I'm so glad you got to take some pics!
I was lucky enough to see the exhibit while it was in Florida a couple of years ago. It was an amazing experience.
I'm so glad you got to see them The exhibit was in Pittsburgh last winter and I got to see it-amazing work from such a humble place.
How wonderful that you got to see these quilts. Thanks for sharing some 'snippets' with us :)
which city were they in? I'm assuming somewhere in Ontario. in any rate, not winnipeg, where I live.
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