Displaying quilts and fabric art often presents a challenge.  Do you drape, fold, or hang the item?  Once you’ve decided that, you must determine where.  You may only be considering showing them in your home.  However, you may be venturing into gallery shows and competitions.  So you may need to make labels to attach to the wall. 
A reader asked Alyson Stanfield of Art Biz Blog how to attach art labels to a wall and avoid removing part of the wall later.  She addresses this topic in her blog post, How to attach labels to the wall.  Then readers who leave comments share tips …read more

                     The Quilt Show , featuring quilters Alex Anderson and Ricky Timms, has been the buzz of the quilt world lately.  April hearlded their joint web site and show where quilters are congregating for some of the latest excitement in quilting events.

To climax National Quilt Month (March), Judy Howard, of Buckboard Quilts, is designating March 29 as Charity Quilt Day.
“This is a campaign to raise awareness and funding for the sacrificial volunteer work of hundreds of thousands of quilters who provide quilts for sick babies, orphans, homeless people, nursing homes, cancer and Alzheimer’s patients, soldiers and victims of disaster – those most in need of the touch of God’s love and comfort that quilts represent.”
This event will climax a month of quilting events, including those surrounding Centennial Stitches – Oklahoma History in Quilts.

Old quilts have always fascinated me…those made by family members and others.  I don’t have a large collection, but enjoy the ones I’ve accumulated, whether given to me as gifts, hand-me-downs or purchased.
I only wish I had a place to display more of them.  Our multi-generational home (hubby, daughter, son-in-law, two grandchildren, dog and assorted other pets) doesn’t allow for much display space…only the wall where Daughter Beth puts up her projects-in-progress to gain perspective.
What fun to be able to display these collectibles and tell the stories associated with them at quilt shows and to quilting groups!
Along the line of …read more

It’s not too early to jot down 2007 quilt and fiber arts shows on your calendar.  See if they fit in with your travels or days off from work.  My daughter has at least two she likes to visit each year, so tries to find their dates a year ahead…or at least by the time she must enter vacation time and floating holidays at work.
Most of these shows are planned a year or two in advance in order to reserve the function hall or convention center, to get the workshop teachers and speakers they desire, and to enable exhibitors to plan …read more

Quilting can be a solitary and even lonely activity since quilters often work alone in their studio or nook at home.  Visiting quilt shows with other quilters, or even by oneself, gives inspiration and new energy to their work.
Today was the day my daughter, Beth, her teenages daughter and friend visited the annual quilt show in Nashua, NH (the state where we live) for a mother/daughter/Aunt Debbie day out.  They’ve been doing this for several years.  I’m anxious to hear all about it when I get home from a business trip.
Beth undoubtedly soon will be posting a report about this …read more

Quilting can be a solitary and even lonely activity since quilters often work alone in their studio or nook at home.  Visiting quilt shows with other quilters, or even by oneself, gives inspiration and new energy to their work.
Today was the day my daughter, Beth, her teenages daughter and friend visited the annual quilt show in Nashua, NH (the state where we live) for a mother/daughter/Aunt Debbie day out.  They’ve been doing this for several years.  I’m anxious to hear all about it when I get home from a business trip.
Beth undoubtedly soon will be posting a report about this …read more

Previously I mentioned the Round Robin my daughter’s local group was conducting. Occasionally Beth posted a photo of a Round Robin fiber art piece she was working on.  The artists are displaying the finished pieces as the Round Robin Collection at their exhibit at the Artistic Roots Art Center at Campton, NH.  Beth also has photos of these for viewing at her blog, http://meanderingthreads.blogspot.com , along with other exhibit pieces.
For those unfamiliar with Round Robins, they consist of works passed around a group (either a local group where quilters meet regularly or an online group in which they mail the pieces to one another).  Each artist adds something to the piece before sending …read more

Linda Cantrell’s workshop, Still Life With Bottles,  at the World Quilt and Textile Show sounded fascinating to my daughter, so she decided to take it.  The hanging she started at the show is coming along nicely and is something different from anything I’ve seen.
I mentioned Linda Cantrell’s workshop in a previous post (http://www.blisstree.com/2006/08/21/quilters-private-retreat-attending-a-quilt-show/ ), but I didn’t have any references to examples of her work.
If you’ll check out this link (www.quiltfest.com/workshop_detail.asp?id=579 )and scroll to the description of Linda’s workshop, then click on the link for photos, you’ll see some very interesting work.  It’s amazing what Linda has done with bottle shapes.  I’m …read more

My daughter experienced what she called her “own private retreat,” consisting of two days at the World Quilt & Textile Show.  She attended a lecture, took a day-long quilting workshop, browsed through the displays and vendors’ booths, and enjoyed a relaxing overnight at the hotel. 
This is the type of excursion only quilters understand, an opportunity to immerse themselves into the quilting world and the beauty of quilts and fabric art.  They also can relax away from job and housework and think only about the quilting experience.
She thoroughly enjoyed the workshop she attended, Still Life with Bottles, taught by North Carolina quilter …read more