Friday, October 22, 2021

PIQF 2021 Part 2 - Some of My Favorites

 Here are a few of my favorite quilts from PIQF 2021. 


Great textures and colors.


Closeup



Great color palette in the one above. 
 I'm a big fan of complementary color schemes.



Love the colors and textures in this one.


Check out how the artist used lace to add texture to the waves!


Love the negative/positive balance in this one and the watercolor effect.



This is called Missouri Barn by Le Ann Hileman.  She did a great job of 
choosing slices of fabric to show the colors and textures of aged barn wood.
Wonderful clouds too.




I liked these little compositions put together to create a larger one.







I apologize for not being able to credit all the artists who made these.







Thursday, October 21, 2021

Pacific International Quilt Show

 My friend Joyce and I went to PIQF last weekend. Usually this show is very well attended, wall to wall people.  Instead of fighting crowds of avid quilters looking for  just the right fat quarter of fabric, there were hardly any people there.  It made it very easy to take photos of the beautiful quilts that are always in attendance there.

Our Cutting Edge Quilt Group had a special exhibit entitled "Personal Journey with Racism". Each member created a quilt to express their individual experience with encountering racism. Below are some pictures from that exhibit.



On the left is Gay's quilt called Boxes and Kathy's called "Strange Fruit", based on the song
 sung by Nina Simone and others about black bodies hanging from trees in the south.


Mine is on the left, entitled, "I'm Just Trying to Fit In" about racial integration in schools in the 70's. On the right is Jeanne S.'s showing the ratio of Blacks to Whites
 in places she has lived and hopes for the future.


On the left is Paula's Quilt about her growing up in racially mixed Detroit and on the Right is Andi's about Redlining, which is a racial discriminatory practice in which lenders systematically
 denied loans to people of color.


On the left is Sara's, which is a very moving piece regarding the discovery in old family wills,  that her ancestors owned slaves for generations.  
On the right is another one of Jeanne S.'s about Asian Hate.