Here we are again with my second installment of posts from IQF 2013. I thought the last category, abstract art, was my favorite. And then I looked at these again. I think they're tied for favorite category.
I guess, as I'm discovering right now, that the difficulty in posting them later rather than sooner is that I don't remember my immediate thoughts while at the festival.
I mean, what an amazing design, right?
The colors.
The buttons.
The bird practically hidden down on the bottom.
I love buttons.
I love the raw feel of the applique and the quilting.
Look at me, coming up with thoughts already.
I think I didn't actually have any thoughts at the festival with this one other than "wow!"
I was just too overwhelmed to contemplate what exactly would make me feel that way at the time.
Yep, genius.
This one is gigantic, which doesn't come through in the photo.
It was almost overwhelming.
More applique... gotta love it.
This one was definitely one of my favorites. I wish I could have spent more time with it. I wish I could have gotten much closer too. I want to do my own quilt map. I love the border and how the map colors seep into the border in the bottom left corner. I also like how subtle and intricate the whole thing is.
The corner I was talking about.
It's hard to see, bu there are tiny, clear gems adhere to it too.
And the title is so cool, right?
I'm thinking I didn't do this one justice in my editing.
I think the colors were more vibrant.
It might not be obvious in the photo, but it is stretched like a painting and it's relatively small.
I think it might have been in the embellished category.
I don't think I have the patience and perseverance to do anything like this. At least not now. Maybe when I'm retired. But I admire others who do it.
Oh yeah, it also caught my attention because it's silkscreened and I had just finished taking a silkscreening class when I went to the festival.
So, this one feels too sweet and pretty to be called art and yet I think it is one of the most amazing pieces there. In fact, I wish that more art could be sweet, innocent, and just pretty. I understand and appreciate really deep art that might not be all that pretty but I've always been drawn to and wanting to create art that is really pleasant to experience.
It was really frustrating how far away some of the quilts were from the viewing barrier, especially ones like this with so much little detail.
I like the idea of trying some raw-edge collage in my quilting and fiber arts so this one appealed to me.
The layers on this one are just luscious.
They give it such depth, along with the one-point perspective.
It was the little people that really won me over with this one.
It's generally just so fun and I love the one-point perspective with the trees, the boxes, and the quilting lines. I'll have to add this and the one above it to my education category. This especially would probably appeal to the kids I'd be teaching.
They remind me of worry dolls.
I'm curious how many favorites I have. This is definitely one.
I love the use of the of the blingy shiny pieces so sporadically.
I also like that she quilted the title onto it.
Again, another favorite.
Hard to explain.
House.
Trees.
colors.
applique.
cool quilting.
transparent applique - something I've been planning on doing.
Hand stitched embroidery in red.
yellow grass quilting.
printed circles.
some more cool quitling.
I just felt there needed to be another shot of this detail
I can do smallish touches of embroidery like this person has rather than the embroidery intensive piece above that was titled Shazam. the green and blue on the house is so sweet.
There were two quilts that were based on Illuminated manuscripts.
I like that this one specifically was based on the Book of Kells. I also liked that it was obviously the artists own creation. The other one looked like it might have been a copy from the book, just quilted. It seemed much less creative. This is so fanciful and the plum colors are so rich mixed with the more traditional browns and gold.
This drew me in with it's intense contrast as well as the repetition of radial symmetry. It was so distinct.
And then reading the title and info about it made me look at at it again and again.
Okay, I need to get to bed so I'm going to try to get through this more quickly. It turns out I remember more than I thought originally.
Another high contrast one. Distinct in its being monochromatic and black and white at that.
The doodling quilting is amazing. hence all the detail shots.
I've always been interested in Magpies and more recently in Zen.
I remember this one seeming softer in person. I think I made it to vibrant in my editing.
Another sweet, innocent, pretty quilt. but so creative and unique, especially for something so ubiquitous as the heart.
I'm not usually in for the more traditional types but this one is just gorgeous.
Stunning.
Read the info.
I loved the picture and wondered what magic was happening in the upper left corner.
The actual story made it even cooler.
I've always had a thing for horses.
My daughter was a Rainbow Firebird for Halloween this year (which was the day before I left for the festival - so it was on my mind (I should upload photos of her and my son's costumes since I made them this year)) so I had to take a picture of this one for her. I liked it but probably wouldn't have photographed it if it weren't for her and her costume.
Looking at it now, as a photo, it makes perfect sense, but up close, in person, this quilt was confusing to me (or maybe it was too many hours staring at nothing but quilts) but I still liked it.
The main reason I took a picture though, was the strings of leaves draping over it.
More to come... eventually.
