Maine Quilts 2008
It was a good year! I actually got to see the show this year, Joshua is well, Paul is well, and Eli is well! After helping hang the show on Wednesday (see the post from a couple of days ago), I returned Friday morning for a class on “Woodcut Quilts with Laura Wasilowski.” Jan and I had signed up eons ago, as soon as we could, with the idea of a “moms escape to play.” To see Laura’s work and / or buy her fabric and thread, go here.
To get an idea of the type of pieces, take a look at Laura’s small quilts on the demo-board. There were no patterns, just your imagination to run wild. The class kit fee included two lengths of Laura’s hand-dyed fabric (it is a rainbow run of color from one selvage to the other) in bright and a narrower strip in pastel, plus some dyed-to-match perle cotton.
For some reason, I don’t have a picture of my piece (in progress and untouched since class…sigh…), so you’ll get to enjoy Jan’s piece, above. I really like the bricks…not a whole raft of them, just some to suggest the wall around the door. As usual, I was disobedient, and brought Misty Fuse instead of Wonder Under (and did just fine thankyewveddymuch), and also brought along my stash of pre-fused batiks (see the flowerpot to the left of Jan’s door!).
There were some awesome pieces…one lady made a giraffe for a granddaughter (sorry I don’t recall her name)….and please remember, these are all “in progress” pieces:
You can see the shading on the pastel hand-dyed in the sky on this piece.
Virginia Morrell of Art Quilts Maine made this awesome and vibrant flower doing very careful fussy cutting…can’t wait to see where it goes:
And Beth Guisely from Coastal Quilters is well on her way to achieving a rooster here:
I’ll be back in a couple of days with one more post about MQ2008!
August 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I absolutely love, love, love Laura Wasilowski’s work! I have watched her on various TV shows, stalked her website waiting for new stuff to appear, and would love to take one of her classes someday. How wonderful that you did! Very cool!