My special quilt.

An SVG map of China with the Guangxi autonnomous region highlighted Legend: Image:China map legend.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The eyes take 5 minutes to focus propery when I wake up, and it really annoys me because I want to fly as soon as I'm awake…!!! Yesterday was my first day to walk the floor. I've…

Strange but true.

    This photo is my reflection in a piece of art in the Museum of contemporary Art Sydney.   Its a privilege to be able to photograph in an art gallery. I have an amazing collection of photos from Galleries around the world. These are art pieces of infinite beauty. I've only come across…

Last day of Long Beach

It was a little quieter yesterday. The hustle and bustle had gone and I was able to spend good quality time looking at the quilts. It seemed that almost half of the quilts were labeled 'No photographs' I'm not going to comment, but I did hear a lot of rumbling from viewers. The quilts I…

Lets feature a quilt.

Walter Langley – The Old Quilt (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I'm rather tired tonight, the legs are refusing to move and yet I still have to walk to the restaurant for dinner. So I decided to feature a quilt…. I will try to add more before I go to bed, but its been a busy day….

International Quilt Festival of Ireland

Just home from the opening event at the first International Quilt Festival of Ireland. Its almost 12.00 and I have to be up at 5.00 am. Pam Holland, Sharon Pederson, Alan Tremain, Luana RubinAt the VIP pre dinner event. The youngest Quilter in Ireland. Aged just 7, she was asked, "how long have you been…

Quilt Store in NY

The City Quilter (Photo credit: Tom Simpson) The City Quilter (Photo credit: cmkalina)               Its raining today but the plan is to visit the "City Quilter"  think its the only quilt shop in NYC. I have to walk through the Garment District  to get there.   I've planned the walk,…

A new Collage Idea.

As a tutor, I need to update my class samples and I just don't have enough hours in the day… however, preparing notes for the collage class I decided to add another dimension to collage and I played around with this quilt. I created the image of the zebra on paper and made a pattern….

Working through the composition

Following my idea of  Newsprint….I had this Moda fabric that l thought would fit the bill and indeed it does. So I've cut the print apart and ironed it to the fabric.

Block No 3.

This is a photo I took in Mexico last year…. it will be a portrait block for next weeks challenge.  I think I'll do a large quilt at the same time of the same subject. If you enlarge the photo, you can see that I've already changed the photo to a watercolor to assist with…