Dimensional Pall

Another dimensional quilt. I'm looking forward to the 2008 New Jersey Quilt Fest. I want to get the PA Quilt Fest photos posted. Will the dimensional trend continue?

Quilts from Japan

One of my favorite features of the PA Quilt Extravaganza is the international quilts, especially the ones from Japan. This on had lots of surface texture; many of the elements were designed raised off of the flat plane of the quilt. It is hard to tell from the photo but the images arranged around center design of the quilt are on the insides of fabric-sculpted shells.

Loose, Limber and Abstract

This is on a fairly loosely-woven background fabric that might be linen. The purple dots are also linen-like. The prints are batiks and the quilt is really very simple. A panel of white, a panel of ombre, multi-sized dots and bubbles framed by funky tumbling squares all roped in with really loosely-twisted wool.

Organic and Fan Shapes

I like the fan shapes and the silhouette feel that the white leaf-shapes create against the darker background. The color palette is interesting. It is nearly neutral with greys and taupes, browns and dull greens. The dark golds and deep purpley blues snake their way up the quilt ending in an explosion of purple dots at the top right corner. Over all its organic and dynamic without
being really colorful. Within the borders are details that may be embossed velvet or velveteen, or even brocade. Triangular pieces wrapped through a covered ring, they look like tie-d0wns, made to be attached to something?

This is quilted by hand by the way, in a wonderful combination of detail-creating stitches, outline and background grid/cross-hatching.