There’s a show of 10 of my quilts at the Kensington Public library, now until January 11th. The library is at 61 Arlington Ave in Kensington. The oldest quilt in the show is from 2008 and the most recent is from 2024.
Here are the library’s hours. Note that they are closed on Sundays and Mondays.
It’s nice to have a tall husband. With his help we didn’t even need a ladder.
This is the front and back of the challenge quilt I recently finished. I had hoped to finish it before we knew the results of the election, but it was finished afterwards. The challenge is from the SF Quilters Guild. I received three “ugly” fabrics to make a 20″ x 20″ quilt out of. There needed to be a “recognizable amount” of the challenge fabrics. I chose to use mainly these challenge fabrics. The remaining challenge fabric became part of the quilt’s back. You can see how little there is left of it.
These are the three challenge fabrics. They’re not really that ugly!
This 12″ 12″ quilt of mine just sold in the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) benefit auction. This is the first time I’ve donated a quilt to their auction.
I’m having a quilt show in a little free library. Art & Lit is a half-square-foot gallery located above a free little library in the Berkeley Hills. It has a website: www.bayviewartandlit.com and a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bayviewartandlit
My show will be up from August 17 through Sept 6th.
Here are several photographs of my show by Andrea Scharff, the owner of Art and Lit.
This is what it looks like from the outside.
Here’s another photo of the little plastic people who are looking at my show.
This is the second Cubist inspired quilt I made for the SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements. I finished the previous quilt- the Cubist style village, three and a half days before the deadline. In those three and a half days I made this quilt! It’s fabric collage with fusible web. I didn’t do any sewing on it until I quilted it. If I had pieced it, it would have taken a lot more time to make. It unintentionally looks a little like a friend of mine.
I just finished this quilt! It’s for a SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements, like Cubism.
When I was eleven years old I painted a self portrait that my art teacher said was reminiscent of Paul Klee’s cubist paintings. I’ve liked Paul Klee’s work ever since then. I intended to sew a cubist face, but then I saw Klee’s painting, Castle and Sun, which looks just like a quilt! There are even four-patch blocks in it. This quilt is my third attempt at sewing cubist houses. Each time, the houses have become more abstract and perhaps more cubist as well. In this quilt the houses are made of only squares and triangles. However, I’ve hinted at more of the architectural details in the quilting. I’m excited to have rediscovered Paul Klee and plan to make more cubist style cityscape quilts in the future
I’ll be teaching how to make these royzelach (paper cut-out roses) at the Shavu’ot, (pre) Tikun this Sunday at the JCC /east Bay. But if you can’t come in person, here’s a video of me teaching it. However, it’s easier and more fun to learn it in person.
There’s a midrash (folkloric legend) that when we received the Torah/10 Commandments at Mt. Sinai, we received them with all our senses. There was thunder, lightning, and the smell of roses. Royzelach (roses in Yiddish) are paper cut-outs that were used to decorate windows for Shavuot in Eastern Europe. Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates receiving the Torah, which starts this year on the evening of June 11, 2024.
This week I finished quilting and binding my Seed Pods quilt. I used a facing, sometimes called an infinity binding rather than a traditional binding. It’s such a relief to have finished it! This is one of my quilts for the Voices in Cloth Quilt Show on March 23 and 24 in Oakland. More info at http://www.ebhq.org › VIC
I’m preparing a slideshow of the quilts that were in my solo show at St Albans for EBHQ Quilters Gather on 1/11/24. I’ve been taking new photos because my old photos aren’t up to my current standards. If you go to www.EBHQ.org you can request the Zoom link. Quilters Gather starts at 7 PM. Here are a few new photos.
Above is Axis Mundi: Jacob’s Ladder
Above is Gesher Tzar: Narrow Bridge
Above is Blue Pomegranate Hamsa. It looks huge here but it’s only 12″ x 12″.
Below is First Lone Robin.
The first photo is at EBHQ’s Open Quilting. The second photo is at Bay Quilts at the EBMQ meeting. Now I just need to quilt it before the Voices in Cloth deadline!
