"ONE" Fundraising Event!

Sponsored by Fiberart For A Cause

One Cause - The Fight Against CancerOne Wednesday - February 16, 2011 One Hundred Collages - Created by this all-star team of artists: Natalya Aikens  Pamela Allen  Laura Ann Beehler  Liz Berg  Pokey Bolton  Laura Cater-Woods  Jette Clover  Jane Davila  Jamie Fingal Gloria Hansen Leslie Tucker Jenison Lyric Kinard  Jeanelle McCall  Linda Teddlie Minton  Karen Stiehl Osborn  BJ Parady  Judy Coates Perez Cynthia St. Charles  Virginia A. Spiegel  Links are to their websites/blogs

Please mark your calendars to participate in this event!  I'm honored to be an ongoing participant in FFAC events.  Since its inception, FFAC artist-participants have raised over $205,000, and 100% of the funds are contributed to the American Cancer Society.

Sold!

What a thrill:  my piece, "Heartland:  A Scattered Landscape", has been sold to an architectural firm.  I'm very honored that this work was chosen.  Since my father was an architect (as well as a structural engineer) I'm especially pleased that it will reside in this type of setting.
Here are images of the piece:

Front of the 2-sided piece

dimensions:  80 inches by 24 inches

Back

detail of front

More Houston Memories

I'm posting a few more fun images from my time in Houston at the International Quilt Festival.  It is always a letdown to wrap another year at festival.  It has come to mean so much more than seeing the amazing quilts:  it is a gathering of the sisterhood of women that have bonded to one another.  Many of these women are far away from one another and, although we are in frequent contact via email and phone, many of us only see each other at festival.  All the more reason to pack as much laughter, conversation, and all-around fun (and the occasional heart-to-heart conversation) into our time together.

I had two photographs juried into "Eye of the Quilter".

The middle image on the left is of my daughter on our patio.

This image is of my youngest daughter while hiking through a forest north of Vancouver BC.

I believe Judy Coates Perez (left) and Melly Testa are imitating squirrels.

The B&W triplets:  l-r Maggie Winfield, Jamie Fingal, and Rachel Parris

This is, hands-down, the best image of loving friends I have ever seen.

Jamie Fingal took this photo.  I think it is very special.

Helen Gregory & Pokey Bolton (Quilting Arts) crack up at the Gala On The Green event.

Dinner in the glass room @ Spencers

L-R:  Michelle Flores, Christine Adams, Rachel Parris, Jamie Fingal, Carol Sinnreich, Frances Holliday Alford, Lesley Riley, Judy Coates Perez, and Melly Testa

Lesley & Melly demonstrate their spoon-skills while Judy looks on.

This sums it up very well!

Quilt Show Images from Houston!

My apologies for being slow in loading photos from festival.  I failed to pack my firewire (ugh) which has prevented me from loading the images from my digital onto the laptop.  Melly to the rescue!  Melly wisely carries a card-reader wherever she goes.  I love you, Melly.  Thank you for loaning me the card-reader.

Okay, seriously?  Even the bell guys are laughing!

Beneath The Surface signage for festival.

Thank you, Iris, (attached, inc/Mistyfuse) for your generous sponsorship.

Dinner @ Spencer's in the Hilton America's hotel:

L-R:  moi, Frances Holliday Alford, Judy Coates Perez, Jamie Fingal, Connie Hudson, Alisa Burke

We are sophisticated.

L-R:  Frances Holliday Alford, Lesley Riley, Judy Coates, Perez

Demoing at Open Studio:  I'm laminating mulberry paper to sheer.

Jamie works in Open Studios

Thursday of Quilt Festival: Teaching, SAQA Creative Force Gathering, Spoonflower "Meet-Up"

Thursday was a busy day:  Open Studios in the morning, SAQA Creative Force Artist Gathering in the afternoon, and a Spoonflower "Meet-Up" in the evening.

Mayhem in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center:  the buses and crowds gather for the 

first full day of quilt festival

Alex Veronelli, of Aurifil Thread (and sponsor of SAQA Creative Force:  2010),

at the SAQA artists' exhibition

Norman, a favorite waiter at Spencer's restaurant, and Michelle Flores, of Hoffman Fabrics

Robbi Eklow & Rachel Parris enjoy the Spoonflower "Meet-Up"

New Glasses from Insight Optical!

If you love eyeglasses and are ever in the Houston-area, you MUST stop into Insight Optical.  They have the most incredible selection of cool, cutting-edge eyewear that I have ever seen.  Plus, the people who own and work at Insight really work with each customer to find the perfect eyewear.  They do not have a website, but I linked to Yelp so you can read the reviews.

This isn't me:  this awesome drawing was spotted in the kids' glasses room

where the kids are allowed to post graffiti on the walls.

more graffiti seen in the kids' room

Fun with friends at previous quilt festivals......

Every year it gets better:  the time I share with friends at quilt festivals!  Many of us rarely see each other outside of these events so we make up for lost time while we are gathered together.  The subculture of mixed-media and fiber art brings us together, but the sheer joy of spending time together bonds us.
Here are a few images, randomly selected, of previous gatherings:

Leslie & Karey Bresenhan @ the SAQA/Quiltart reception

2003

Frances Holliday Alford with her sisters at the tiara parade

2003

Tiara parade hits the show floor!  

Kathy York after she realizes her quilt, "Little Cities" has won first prize

Kathy talks about her winning quilt, "Little Cities"

Frances poses by her encrusted quilt

Austin art quilt group at the awards ceremony for "Kiwi and Fuschia Meet For Mojitos"

L-R: Frances, Leslie, Connie, Sherri, Raewyn, and Kathy

Frances & Leslie pose in front of "Guadalupe Goes Shopping"

2008

Rachel Parris "wears" one of Frances' wreaths as Judy Coates Perez catches a photo

Melly Testa rocking a spoon

Leslie & Jamie Fingal

'Dinner At Eight' having dinner at eight @ Spencer's in the Hilton

After-hours painting in our room:

Clockwise from bottom:  Judy Coates Perez, Leslie, Nina Perez, 

Barbara Delaney, and Frances Holliday Alford

How you feel the day after festival!

(Jamie Fingal crashed on my studio sofa)