Quilting is Everywhere!

The other day the local Children's Museum hosted a special event, and my family was fortunate enough to be invited. This museum is located in Seattle, but we are really just across the bridge from Seattle so its a quick 20 min drive.

There in one of the newly remodeled rooms was a large wooden display of the book The Quilt Isn't this wonderful!

I couldn't go, but my DH went with our children and he sent me this picture from his phone.


The display and painting is so brilliantly colorful, and in real life, it drapes wonderfully.


I also was able to dedicate a few more minutes to my Matisse Challenge piece hosted by Victoria at BumbleBeans. I had hoped to finish the top, but family matters took me away from sewing this week yet again.




I've divided the painting into roughly 3 parts and now I just have the center panel to complete. I'm telling you, free-form piecing is really much harder than I expected.

This weekend I'll be doing 'Howl' for Tonya's Holloween Sounds quilt. She has a listing with links of all the work everyone else has done for her and it's really spectacular! Check it out if you have a chance.

Cheers,

Dionne

Spectacular Site

I took my three children to the Art museum. This is the first time I have attempted to bring them because of the large glass display by Dale Chihuly.





As soon as we walked in we saw this Spectacular Site!











This entire meter-maid vehicle is quilted. Even the wheels are quilted.






The artist is Paul Margolis and he entitled the piece: 'I Imagined Myself as a Meter-Maid'

If you see my daughter pretending she is a meter maid you get the idea of the size.

I couldn't find a website for the artist, or I would add a link here for you.











He also had these pair of quilted flip-flops on display as well.







My children were incredibly well-behaved, throughout the entire walk through of the museum. They especially enjoyed the altered book display. This display was amazing, there was a full size Buddha head that was carved from several Manhattan White pages, as well as several intricate carvings inside the pages of different books.






My children were careful, interested and really really well-behaved, until we got to the Quilt display on the third floor.

This exhibit is titled 'American Quilt Classics, 1800 - 1980' and it was my ultimate purpose of taking the trip in the first place.

We arrived at the display and all of a sudden they lost their interest, started wandering around aimlessly. It was rather funny actually, but in the end, my oldest hustled the other two down to the interactive art table and I had a few minutes to peruse the quilts alone while my children created their own artwork.