Yesterday I attended my Quilt Guild's annual Tote n Gloat. We parade our quilts in front of each other, enter a variety of challenges, listen to a guest speaker, and buy lots and lots of fabric. Its a full days worth of quilty goodness.
A friend of mine, whose quilting house group I attend, entered the Christmas cracker challenge. She made a 3D cracker, adorned with beading.
She didn't get a prize, but other versions of a cracker in more traditional Christmas colours did. It sort of got me wondering about colour, and taste in the world of quilting.
Her quilts are fairly "out there", and she loves colour, decorative stitching and throwing as many fabrics in as possible in her "I spy" quilts. She is generous with her time, her home, and her coffee. And, it sort of bugs me when I see her work passed over, just because of colour choices.
Personally I love quilting that incorporates a fully integrated fabric line, perfectly co-ordinated, in which the colours just sing together, all following the same tune. Bonnie and Camille, love it. Low volume, love it even more.
But surely we can make room for the quilters like my friend who use exuberant colour, with no shades or tints forbidden. Maybe a new quilting award, for Fearless Use of Colour in Quilting.
A friend of mine, whose quilting house group I attend, entered the Christmas cracker challenge. She made a 3D cracker, adorned with beading.
She didn't get a prize, but other versions of a cracker in more traditional Christmas colours did. It sort of got me wondering about colour, and taste in the world of quilting.
Her quilts are fairly "out there", and she loves colour, decorative stitching and throwing as many fabrics in as possible in her "I spy" quilts. She is generous with her time, her home, and her coffee. And, it sort of bugs me when I see her work passed over, just because of colour choices.
Personally I love quilting that incorporates a fully integrated fabric line, perfectly co-ordinated, in which the colours just sing together, all following the same tune. Bonnie and Camille, love it. Low volume, love it even more.
But surely we can make room for the quilters like my friend who use exuberant colour, with no shades or tints forbidden. Maybe a new quilting award, for Fearless Use of Colour in Quilting.
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