Because I'm feeling whimsical,
What the fuck do you mean that's a quilt??? Round 2
All quilts are contest winners from the quilt show Road to California, 2022. You can see these quilts and the other winners from that year here.
Best of Show Quilt
Title: Harlequinade
Maker: Rebecca Prior
Quilter: Jackie Brown
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
"Harlequinade" is a theatrical quilt filled with visual clues guiding viewers to discover a hidden story. Inspired by Venetian Carnival masks and commedia del'arte characters, the quilt features the antics of Harlequin, the trickster, who has his own ideas about freedom and fun!
Director's Choice
Title: Welcome Home
Maker: David Taylor
Quilter: David Taylor
Design Basis: Original image by Margo Clabo, used with permission
I first saw this image from friend Margo Clabo more than a decade ago. It took years to convince her to let me adapt her photo into a quilt. The image it depicts is especially sentimental for her. The challenge for myself was to create a pieced pictorial background and recreate a traditionally pieced quilt by using my hand appliqué technique. The project size was overwhelming, but I'm thrilled with the finished quilt. So is Margo. Time to exhale.
Note: To be clear, that is not a photo with a quilt in it, that WHOLE THING is a quilt.
Best Machine Stationary Quilting
Title: Emerald labyrinth
Maker: Kumiko Frydl
Quilter: Kumiko Frydl
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
As a starting point I used an image from the entrance to the EL Barkookeyeh Mosque in Cairo. Thinking of an elegant and intricate garden I added bursts of natural color and filled the area between the large elements of the design with finer ornament inspired by butterflies and plants. I set the circular image in a rectangular frame with a subdued complimentary design of rippled reflective pools.
1st Place: Animal
Title: Woodland Wilds
Maker: Ann Horton
Quilter: Ann Horton
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
My morning hikes in the woodland hills of our northern California home inspired this quilt. The rabbits are always alert for danger. This machine appliqued, thread painted and embroidered view through a window is surrounded by wild flowers on hand dyed silk and again surrounded by other wild birds and animals. I love my wilds things in the woods!
1st Place: Human Image
Title: The Memories That Remain
Maker: Lynn Czaban
Quilter: Lynn Czaban
Design Basis: Library of Congress Photos - LC-USF33-006183MI and LC-USF33-0061
I am fascinated by the human face and our ability to communicate without uttering a single word. The Portuguese word 'saudade' meaning a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.
1st Place: Naturescape
Title: Desert In Spring
Maker: Andrea Brokenshire
Quilter: Andrea Brokenshire
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
My Mom and I embarked on an epic travel trip we named our "Thelma and Louise Adventure" In Palm Springs, CA we visited the Living Desert Botanical Garden. This quilt is inspired by one of the photographs I took that spring day of a Prickly Pear Cactus in full bloom. I loved the leathery texture of the cactus leaves (paddles) and the almost translucent citron yellow blossoms.
2nd Place: Animal
itle: Not Today
Maker: Kestrel Michaud
Quilter: Kestrel Michaud
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
The chase is on! The Roadrunner is after his next meal, chasing a Common Collared Lizard through a steampunk junkyard. The desert is a favored dumping ground for the detritus of progress, even in a fantasy world. A steam-powered industrial revolution creates iron refuse and pieces of broken machinery have been left to decay in dry desert air. That doesn’t bother these critters. To them, this is home. Will that lizard wind up as dinner? Not today!
2nd Place: Human Image
Title: Declaration of Independence - Voices of Freedom
Maker: Nancy Prince
Quilter: Terri Taylor
Design Basis: Reproduction of John Trumbull's Painting
The quilt is a reproduction of John Trumbull's painting which depicts the moment in history when the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was presented to the Second Continental Congress on June 28, 1776. The quilt front and back were created in Photoshop and custom printed on fabric. Four thousand hours over 4 years was necessary to create the quilt. The back captures the story of the Declaration and its signers.
Note: I'm not at all patriotic. But credit where credit is due. That's a fucking quilt.
3rd Place: Animal
Title: Midnight Flight
Maker: Joanne Baeth
Quilter: Joanne Baeth
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
Several years ago we had an injured Great Horned Owl roosting in our willow tree during the day. I took several pictures and was inspired to create him in fabric. The background features a painted sky, old buildings, melting snow and a rabbit on the run The foreground is the swooping owl which was constructed by painting and inking each feather and thread painting over fabrics and needle punched wool rovings
3rd Place: Naturescape
Title: Day Into Night
Maker: Deb Deaton
Quilter: Deb Deaton
Design Basis: Maker's Original Design
Inspired from photo by Robert Murray with his permission. When the Arizona sun begins to set, the sky comes alive. I saw this photo and knew the splendor of this landscape needed to be captured with fiber! Sky is hand painted. Raw edge applique. Mixed media used: oil pastels, color pencils, inks to enhance the fabrics and create more dimension. Cheesecloth: painted to create spikes of cactus. Tulle used to capture the sunrays. Machine quilted.
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Celebration of Life Service of Crystal Irene Larimer from St Andrew UMC - Florissant, MO on Vimeo.
Crystal I. Larimer
July 09, 1926 - January 24, 2024
Crystal Irene Larimer passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, surrounded by family at the Arbors at Dunsford Court in Sullivan, MO at the age of 97 years. She was born on July 9, 1926 in Sac County, Iowa in the home of her parents, Jay Waskom and Mabel (Hines) Waskom, who were respected farmers. Crystal was the youngest of hersisters, Mildred, Evelyn and Lucile. She was joined in marriage on 24, 1948 to Don Larimer. The couple had three children, Alan,Bruce and Diane. Her husband was in construction and the family lived inmany interesting places throughout his career. Crystal graduated fromBuena Vista College in Storm Lake Iowa, becoming a teacher. After marriage, she was an excellent wife, homemaker, and mother. She was devoted to her family and enjoyed spending time with them, especially her grandchildren. She was an award-winning quilter, skilled seamstress andartist with a quick wit and delightful sense of humor. She and Donenjoyed camping and traveling. She was a faithful member ofBellefontaine United Methodist Church in St. Louis, where she enjoyed volunteering for many years and had many friends. Crystal is survived by son, Alan Larimer (Tess) of Columbia; son, Bruce Larimer of Florissant;and daughter, Diane (Larimer) Hawkey of Florissant; five grandchildren: Dennis Larimer (Bryana), Michael Larimer, Sarah Hawkey, David Hawkey,
and Emily Pupillo; three great-grandchildren: Gabriel Shelton, Elizabeth Hawkey and Logan Larimer; sister-in-law, Sharon (Larimer) Greene; and many other beloved nieces, nephews, and friends. She is preceded in death by her husband, Don Larimer; her parents, Jay and Mabel Waskom; her three sisters: Mildred Rogers (Dean), Evelyn Grau (Harald), and Lucile Schnirring (Glen), and her daughter-in-law, Cathy (Nicklaus)Larimer, wife of son Bruce.
The family wants to Thank You for attending this celebration of Crystal’s life. All of you have been an important part of her life.
If you would like to give a memorial gift to celebrate Crystal’s life; donations can be made to: Alzheimer’s Association
alz.org Celebrant and Participants. The Rev. Monica Jefferson Senior Pastor Barbara Kay Pianist, Jennifer Proffitt Visual Presenter.
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Find the Word Challenge
rules: share snippets of your work containing each of the words the previous poster selected for you (optional addition: if you can't find the word in your WIPs, or you simply don't have any WIPs, you can just write a sentence around the word)
I was tagged by @apothecarose @mammameesh @smblmn and @stereopticons so thank you! It was interesting to look at my own writing from different entry points and out of context.
I'm going to put everything under a cut because it got super long. (Too long! Go get a drink of water or something first, and you have my blessing to skim.)
(Everything's from my amnesia fic unless I say otherwise.)
Words from @apothecarose: drink, blue, bright, rock, sound
drink: Well, this is how I learned that I have a scene that uses the word “drink” 7 times in 300 words, and it gets annoying and needs fixing. But this is from somewhere else.
He sat at the table, unable to do much but drink coffee and think.
This was going to be a thing, he realized. Maybe not for Patrick. Maybe Patrick’s injury itself, his lack of memory of the event, would protect him from some of the trauma. But David would remember—the gutters, the roof, the ladder, the sick feeling in his gut, his husband’s blood—and it all would be linked in his head forever.
blue: (there's lots of blue)
He held the hand with the mugs out between them. “Yours is the blue.”
bright:
“Oh, sure.” Patrick’s face brightened, and David gave himself another little point.
rock: (oh, weirdly, I have a whole rock bit, but I like this standalone sentence better)
He’d posed Patrick on a big rock where the light was good and taken his picture.
sound: Do other people say “sounds like” as much as I do (as in, “that sounds like an insult”) or is that something I just discovered I need to get under control?
“Right. You protested with a dignified, mature sound, and I don’t think we found the sunglasses.”
Because I found this odd, @apothecarose gets a bonus snippet. I had three of the words in one little part, so you can have it all:
“Yeah, I think I talked to her in a motel room. Bright blue walls. Then I went home—or somewhere, somewhere else. And I was so upset. For days.”
“I’d call those walls sort of a dull turquoise.” David felt Patrick’s surprise, but he closed his eyes, unable to face it. “Nevermind, forget I said anything, it’s your memory.”
“What, David? What’s going on?”
“Nothing. It sounds like you’re remembering something from here. That’s really good.”
Words from @mammameesh: bake, soft, sew, learn
bake: (This is baby quilter!Patrick.)
When they were at his house, he used to help clean off the dining room table before grabbing one of his mom’s just-baked cinnamon rolls and going off to play video games.
Ugh, that's all I have for “bake,” but I don't like it. I know in canon they say “cinnamon buns” instead, and, I don't know, I just hate it, it sounds bad to my ears and I refuse to write it, but I also refuse to write it wrong if I know better, so I should think of an alternative baked good. Also I still need to decide on a specific video game, and I could be fixing it right now instead of complaining, but whatever.
soft:
He looked at his slate blue henley, soft bunches of it just below his elbows where he had pushed the sleeves up.
sew: (more quilting, of course)
He also liked taking the strips of fabric he had sewn together and pressing the seam allowance to one side. That’s what his mom called it, “pressing it to the side instead of open.”
learn:
“I wonder who else has died that I don’t know about anymore. What else has happened?”
That was a staggering thought. David couldn’t bear it, the idea of Patrick learning about so much heartache all at once. Even if each event or fact was small on its own, they would add up.
Words from @smblmn: choice, light, falter, book, ring
choice: (such an interesting word that gave me fun options)
David was eating his Lucky Charms dry because they were out of milk. Or, rather, they only had a little bit left and they chose to use it in their coffee, a respectable, grown-up choice. Patrick had made himself oatmeal—also a respectable, grown-up choice—and when David had brought up the lack of milk for it, he had shrugged and said he’d use lots of butter instead. David was a fan of butter, but that was just wrong. The whole flavor profile would be off.
light: So much light to choose from! This is about a quilt but it’s still the amnesia fic and David.
He looked at a quilt block, how the different fabric strips rotated around the middle piece to make a square. A skinny rectangle of a cream floral, followed by a crisp parchment-colored polkadot, next to a stripe of a copper geometric print, leading into a smaller piece the shade of his habitual macchiato. Light, light, dark, dark. He traced the seams and breathed.
falter: No faltering, or rather, probably plenty of faltering I just didn’t call faltering.
book:
Patrick flipped the pages of the book until it settled open on a song that had its own crease in the spine. “So, here’s what we’re doing. You play right hand and I play left.”
ring: Oh, I have David's rings, of course, but to be different, this is him trying to explain ring theory.
“Right, but you’re supposed to complain out. That’s what Lisa—my therapist—says. Not about you—just in general, she said once, showed me a drawing. Ring theory. You are the center, the person something happened to, and I am the first ring out. Your parents, for instance, are maybe in the next ring. Support and sympathy goes towards the middle of the circle, but complaining goes outward. So your parents can tell their friends how hard it is, but to us, they should only offer to help. Anyway. You are the center. I have to support you and save my complaints for literally anyone else.”
Words from @stereopticons: miserable, flavor, think, relevant, cheap
miserable: Nothing! Lots of misery, but no one’s calling it that.
flavor:
David got his three favorite flavors of ice cream, Patrick got the ingredients for fettuccine alfredo, and they came home with a rotisserie chicken and salad in a bag because no one wants to cook after they’ve just been to the grocery store.
think:
David didn’t know what to think about any of this, so he tried to think of something else.
relevant: Nope, nothing relevant at all.
cheap:
The mail was still on the bed. David looked again at the postcard from Gwen, which had an advertisement for Yarn for Cheap on its front and get well wishes on its flipside.
Okay, no pressure tagging @beaiola @alysiswriting @wearpersistencewell @sspaz1000 @mostlyinthemorning
Your words: anxious, city, midnight, pocket, surprise
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The Lost Islands - The 0-Ten Network - January 1, 1976 - December 1, 1976
Action / Adventure (26 episodes)
Running Time: 30 minutes
Stars:
Tony Hughes as Tony
Jane Vallis as Anna
Robert Edgington as David
Amanda Ma as Su Yin
Chris Benaud as Mark
The People of Tambu/The "Q-People
Margaret Nelson as Helen Margaret Quinn.
Rodney Bell as Aaron James Quinn
Michael Howard as Jason Quinn
Ron Haddrick as The Q
Ric Hutton as Rufus Quad
Willie Fennell as Jeremiah Quizzel
Cornelia Frances as Elizabeth Quinn
Don Pascoe as Adam Quinn
Frank Gallacher and Ron Blanchard as Quig and Quell
Harry Lawrence as the Hermit
Harold Hopkins as Thomas Quick
Wallas Eaton as school headmaster Quilter.
Kent Strickland as Quimby
Dianne Berryman as Bess
Modern World people[
Peter Adams as Jimmy Williams
Peter Sumner as Christian Dobler
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