Are you attached to your quilts?

After posting about my upcoming show in July I received a comment that I should be showing my architectural quilts. That would be great except for 2 things….I only have 15 feet of display space and I don’t really want to sell most of them. I think I’m too attached to them. The quilts that I am showing I’m not as attached to. Some of the ones that I’m attached to I feel are almost like my children. Some of them took way longer than 9 months to birth. Maybe that’s why I’m so attached to them.

Here’s the ones that I can’t part with.

Grandma’s House made for my Mother

Schoolhouse. I wanted to make a red and white quilt for years.

When the dark night seems endless. My Amsterdam canal house quilt. 

Latest quilt called In the City

Dawn on the Charles Bridge.

Are you attached to some of your quilts? Or  is it easy for you to let them go?

Thanks for reading.

Chris

My July show is up on the art alliance website

 Here’s a screen shot of the advertisement. The title of my show is “Stitched Stories.”

Here’s an AI image of the quilts that I have decided to show. The relative sizes are a bit off, but the quilts look good together. The title shown by AI is not correct.

Thanks for reading. 

Chris

Back at it

I finally got the Halloween quilt back out and have spent sometime quilting some of the pumpkins. After much trial and error I decided to stitch them with a dark maroon thread. 

The quilt is covered in batting fuzz!

My daughter got me a membership in Skillshare for Mother’s Day.  Lots of classes to explore on their website and app. I guess I’ll be expanding my mind some more..

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Taking classes to expand my mind

I have taken plenty of classes that were not quilting classes over the years to have fun and expand my mind. In fact I have one coming up in June that has nothing to do with quilting. It’s one on eco-printing. https://artallianceofcentralpa.org/products/eco-printing-bookbinding

I have never printed with leaves and plants before. I have done normal fabric dyeing as well as rust dyeing. The rust dyeing definitely produces some interesting results. I have used several of the rust dyed fabrics in quilts. 

Rust dying set up

Rust dyed fabrics

Stormy skies rust dyed fabric is my favorite

Fracking quilt made from rust dyed fabrics

Painted rust dyed fabrics to use in a quilt

Rusted toxic barrels quilt using painted rust dyed fabrics

Do you take classes to expand your mind? What kinds of classes do you take?

Thanks for reading.

Chris