Quilt Show! Fidalgo Island Quilter's 2010

 

 I had to shoot up at an angle to get a photo of this beautiful whole cloth quilt.

It was so wonderfully done!

Every other year - well it used to be every year and might be once again - the Fidalgo Island Quilter's  have an excellent quilt show. I thought that this year's show was one of the best yet and I came away re-energized and ready to run some cloth through my hands again! Every member can enter something in the show and I have done so in the past. The caveat is that everyone must work the show in order to enter (which I understand) and since I can;t stand for too long these days I elected to just have the time to wander and admire the high level of excellent work in the show !

I have chosen some of my favorite pieces for the blog - but it will take a few days to get through - or I would most likely throw Blogger's server into a cyber tizzy fit !  I have posted the photos of the quilts and the maker's name generally below the photos of the work. Have a good time "at the show" !

I 've never seen fleece used to such a great advantage !

This is one of the best landscape quilts I have ever seen! 

The 3D effects were totally awesome!

The pine boughs were amazing and the ferns equally so. 

This quilt should be in Houston!

This mola quilt was another of my favorites. It's brilliant! 

The work was so perfectly executed!

I don't think that I have ever seen RicRac used in a better way!

Most of you know that I am a sucker for traditional quilts. I still love making bed quilts and traditional quilts just seem to 'rock my boat'. I have never understood why some quilter's feel that you must be either a traditional quilter or an art quilter. They are both art and they are both quilting - so what's the beef? I love them both and consider myself simply a quilter - in whatever form the muse moves me.

The quilt below is a brilliant example of a traditional pattern 

that IMHO just screams energy and art. I love this quilt!

Congratulations to all of these wonderful artists for giving us all a feast for the eyes!

Every Day Art in Historic Anacortes Washington

I love Anacortes, Washington. It is the closest mainland town for us to shop in and, as I have mentioned in previous posts, if I was going to live on the mainland - this would be the place.
The streets are filled with what I call 'everyday art'. Even the garbage cans are shaped like cans of salmon (salmon processing was a large business in this area).

The historic Wilson Hotel is one of my favorite pieces of art work, The entire painting is composed of circles - I should have taken a close up of them - having to hurry, rather than dawdle, always makes me forget to do something!

The sides of the buildings are adorned with wonderful art work. Here, is the previously mentioned wonderful Yarn Shop, is adorned with great "side walk art". Below is the side of another building. These are also some of the designs that are used for the garbage cans on the sidewalks - another photo I neglected to take on this little foray! Growing up, and previously working, in large cites nationwide has given me a real appreciation for where I live. On our island we do not have a single stop light (we do have stop signs!), a traffic jam is more than 4 cars, we walk down the street saying hello to neighbors and friends. I think that living in beautiful Anacortes would be much the same way.