Thursday, November 1, 2007

07 Journal Quilt




Wow, things have been busy in the last 6 weeks. In addition to the great AQS news, I also learned that my petroglyph quilt Moab Rock Talk will be shown in the December issue of Quilters Newsletter Magazine due out November 15.
I made a quilt for the last journal quilt project now showing at the Houston Quilt Festival show. I used a photo taken while hiking in Arches National Park with my godtwins and their grandma. Here is the quilt and the inspiration photo. I scanned the enlarged black & white photo and then used caran d'ache watercolor crayons to paint in the photo.
I also took classes, did an antique quilt trunk show/lecture and lots of appraisals at the Utah Quilt Guild annual meeting. Then onto the American Quilt Study Group seminar in the historic textile town of Lowell, Mass. My brain is overflowing from all the beautiful antique quilts I saw there and just the wonderful history everywhere, what a treat for us westerners. We don't have any cobblestone streets in Moab or anywhere in Utah. I'll soon post photos from Mass.

3 comments:

  1. What a sweet quilt of two precious little girls.

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  2. Beautiful quilt! But I'm new to this stuff....how do you get the watercolor crayons to be permanent? Thanks in advance---Carol c.

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  3. The caran d'ache crayons are heat set with a hot dry iron. See Holly Knott's article in Quilting Arts Issue 18 for more info.

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