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The Frayed Edges, July 2011–Part 1: the Library Show
WOW… what a whirlwind it has been, and what a lot of fun we had.
"Letters" quilts and the four Frayed Edges at the Picker Room, Camden Public Library, on July 9, 2011
Deborah Boschert, our “expat” member now living near Annapolis, Maryland (for those of you not in the US, that is near Washington, DC) flew up for the weekend to visit, so Deborah, Kathy Daniels, Kate Cutko and I had a glorious weekend. The reason for the gathering was our second show (the first was in 2007, and is here and here and here) at the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library. On July 1, Kate drove over an hour from her home to help me hang the show, and was I ever grateful for the help! A week later, Deborah arrived and spent the night with me in Hope. The next day, July 8, we gave a program on the show for the Coastal Quilters in the morning:
Deborah Boschert talks about her "long and skinny" piece which hangs over the glass display case in the Camden Public Library's Picker room; this is a first for the Coastal Quilters--rather than meet in the usual Lions' Club location, we met "on-site" in the library! Thanks to all who were able to come!
We had a short break on a glorious summer’s day , minus Kate who had to work her morning job as Bowdoinham town librarian, and ate on the back deck at Marriner’s for lunch…astonishingly, we all look good in this photo! Clearly we are happy to be together!
Lunch at Marriner's, on the back deck over the Falls. L to R: Deborah Boschert, Kate (Kathy) Daniels, and me
Kate arrived in time for our 2-4 p.m. Artists’ Reception, which was well attended—I expect that is was almost all Kathy’s friends and relatives, and we so appreciate their coming!
Viewers at the Artists' Reception looking at our Letters pieces
Eighteen months ago, we starting noodling about the idea of a group challenge/themed pieces that would be new for the show. I’ll blog more about the pieces in a later post, but the photo at the top of the post shows all the 12 pieces. We each made two 12 x 12 inch pieces (inspired by Deborah’s participation in the Twelve by Twelve project, here) and a center piece that was 36 (or thereabouts) inches wide and anywhere between 16 to 42 inches tall. I was inspired by the quilt exhibit by tACTile, a group of quilters from the Australia Capitol Territory (ACT), which you can see here. But we decided since other groups have taken the idea of a line running through all the pieces, to not do that for our series. Our theme was “Letters,” which we thought was a good one for a show in the Library and because each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, has used letters or words on our quilts.
At one point, Joshua drifted through (to see if I’d take some stuff home for him, actually), but he kindly consented to let me take his picture with the portrait of him…he has grown up a bit!
Joshua playing air guitar in front of the quilt of Joshua playing guitar... I think I'm glad I didn't have to quilt the beard that he has had since shortly after the photos I took for the quilt! And isn't that a cool lion on his t-shirt?
We had lots of thoughtful visitors:
Kate chats with a gentleman who really seemed to enjoy the show and spent lots of time looking at the pieces.
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Kate chatting with the architect, Deborah at the far end of the table, Kathy speaking with the artist who did the recent show with the colorful goldfish paintings
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Deborah's three pieces on the left, Paul (hubby!) looking at Kate's graphic novel-inspired pieces
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More of Kath's friends and family, plus a really nice couple who are part-time Maine residents and drove an hour just to come up for the show...way cool!
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Kate and Deborah looking at the room and show
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"Letters" quilts and the four Frayed Edges. We are standing in the same order as our quilts: Deborah's inspired by letters home, Kate's graphic novel-inspired pieces which will find a home at her Bowdoinham Library, me with pieces inspired by the Getty Museum, and Kathy's chicken who became Tillie of Tillie Lays an Egg (with permission of the author)
and that’s it for the day…. I’ll post again about the Frayed Edges FUN as well as our Letters Quilts. Of course, I think I had better go take good pictures of the quilts…would make blogging about them a lot easier, eh? That’s it for today…stay tuned!
July 19th, 2011 at 6:38 am
Congrats on your show!
July 19th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Congratulations on the show. Looks great. Nancy
July 19th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Very nice. Wish I had been able to view it when up in your neck of the woods, but timing didn’t work out. Anxious to see the pieces closer up.
December 16th, 2011 at 9:42 am
[…] website here), and she came from her home in Maryland for our show this summer at the library (see here 1, here 2 and here 3). Eleanor really wanted to do a challenge like that. So we summarily decided […]