A challenge quilt
07-12-2016, 05:45 AM
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Totally awesome! Glad he made you enter it! He has a great eye for excellence it seems.... Maybe you will be more confident to enter other shows, even if it's only to show them to others. Great job.
07-12-2016, 07:08 AM
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Congratulations on your win! True the colors are a bit unusual, but, like everyone says, beautiful. Very exotic and sultry. No wonder it won! You did a get job with your fat quarters.
I think quilter's hubby's see and know more than we give them credit for.
I think quilter's hubby's see and know more than we give them credit for.
07-12-2016, 08:46 AM
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Quilters are so hard on themselves. This is beautiful. I'm sorry your friend had to give up quilting, but how wonderful that she shared her stash and you used it in such a great way. I'm sure this gave her great satisfaction.
I have 2 brothers who are artists. I always felt that my work was insignificant and not anything next to the stuff they did. One day I gave my brother a simple log cabin quilt (all in blues) for his birthday. I tried to downplay it and, with tears in his eyes, he told me it was outstanding. He said he could not understand how someone could take some pieces of fabric, see a project in it and then make something like a quilt. I could not believe he was saying this - the artist was impressed by my work! Since that day I have thought differently about what we do. We are artists, we do create great things. They may have imperfections, we may need to work on our techniques, but they are ALL works of art. We make them with our hands, from our heart and give them as gifts - we need to stop being so hard on ourselves.
I have 2 brothers who are artists. I always felt that my work was insignificant and not anything next to the stuff they did. One day I gave my brother a simple log cabin quilt (all in blues) for his birthday. I tried to downplay it and, with tears in his eyes, he told me it was outstanding. He said he could not understand how someone could take some pieces of fabric, see a project in it and then make something like a quilt. I could not believe he was saying this - the artist was impressed by my work! Since that day I have thought differently about what we do. We are artists, we do create great things. They may have imperfections, we may need to work on our techniques, but they are ALL works of art. We make them with our hands, from our heart and give them as gifts - we need to stop being so hard on ourselves.
07-12-2016, 10:14 AM
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RE: klsswift's post. Mainly, I proudly consider myself to be an artisan, occasionally producing accrual art. I am embarrassed when people who have commissioned my work, one to the tune of several thousand dollars over several years, laud me as a fine artist. I come from a family of artisan/artists. Both my grandmothers were known painters who also designed homes and one several public buildings. One grandmother built her own house by herself while working full time as a teacher. My father was given a large quantity of filthy "garbage" wool. After cleaning it, he invented a type of spinning wheel, spun, made a loom and wove it, producing thread for thread copies of prerevolutionary work from both sides of the family. He considered himself a "technologist", doing everything from glass blowing to assisting Nobel Laureates on their lesser works, to making replicas of antique instruments to building cannery equipment. Perhaps I am sometimes also an artist, but I am proud to be an artisan and try to do a workman-like job on all of my quilts.
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