Thursday was spent at the North Texas Quilt Festival. It was a wonderful day!
The Original Sewing & Quilt Expo in Arlington has been the host for a regional quilt show for the past two years. North Texas guilds have worked together to produce a fabulous show.
The quilts were wonderful. But I was struck by the large number of elephants in the room. I may have missed some, but I counted six. There were pieced elephants, appliquéd elephants, colorful elephants, happy elephants. They were everywhere!
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| Jade's Elephant Parade (detail) by Kay Thomas |
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| Unknown for now -- I'll find out today when I get to the show. |
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| The Elephant in the Room by Mary Beth McCormack |
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| Eliana The Elephant by Jolene Mershon |
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| Pat's Pachyderm by Pat Wykoff |
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| Purple Reign by Margie Kallmayer |
But one of my favorite quilts was part of the SAQA Wild Fabrications exhibit on display.
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| Polka Dodo by Susan Carlson |
I'll feature more quilts from Wild Fabrications in another post.
Wendy Hook, my cohort in quilted crime, and I had six quilts in the show. Fiver were in the art category. Two of Wendy's:
The Salt Marsh returns. When I first got to the show I walked by it, and I heard someone say "This quilt is everywhere! It's in all the shows." I guess she was tired of it. Oh well.
Tuning Fork #11:
Blue Triangles by Wendy. I love this quilt!
And the debut of "Uptempo" in the Modern Quilt Category. The design started out as a small paper collage. It was fun to translate it into fiber.
I spent most of the day working at the SAQA: Wild Fabrications booth with Jaye Dodds.
I'm working there today, too. And I want to spend some time looking at the Threads of Resistance Exhibit. I didn't have time to really look at them yesterday.
Tuning Fork #11:
Blue Triangles by Wendy. I love this quilt!
I'm working there today, too. And I want to spend some time looking at the Threads of Resistance Exhibit. I didn't have time to really look at them yesterday.
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