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Super Stars: Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum

This exhibition is part of a twelve-month-long series of shows, educational programming, and special events organized by the museum to emphasize the creative contributions of three centuries of talented women. Presented in conjunction with a new publication that illustrates two hundred of the museum’s most significant bedcovers, “Super Stars” illuminates one theme in these textile masterpieces from the collection.

Infinite Variety

Loved them all!











A digital guide to the exhibition, including images of all 650 quilts, is available as a free app for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android smart phone. For more information and to download, visit folkartmuseum.org/infinitevariety.

Infinite Variety -- Focusing on Applique Quilts

Applique designs are not limited to geometric patterns. Many bed covers feature animals, flowers, hearts, and similar forms.



A digital guide to the exhibition, including images of all 650 quilts, is available as a free app for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android smart phone. For more information and to download, visit folkartmuseum.org/infinitevariety.

Bling!

Some days are just brighter than others. Saw the jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Of course I loved it!

All the way to the other side of the spectrum was the Flee Market. I bought probably the largest pin I'll ever own. I was inspired. How could I resist?

Shopping NYC

The City Quilter -- A quilting haven in New York City, the shop specializes in fabric for the urban quilter and sewer — sophisticated, contemporary, & exotic. Located in Manhattan's Chelsea district, the recently expanded 4,000 sq ft store has more than 4,000 bolts of 100% cotton fabric & is near to parking, mass transit, and shopping.

Speaking for the shopping... visited This 'n' That - the store that recalls the past with Jewelry, Antiques, and Collectibles.

Invinate Variety ... more details

Red & White has been a classic color scheme since the early nineteenth century. The popularity of this color combination can be traced to the color fastness of Turkey red.

The largest number of quilts on view are geometric pieced patterns. The variety of designs, and their names, were limited only by the quiltmakers' imaginations.

A digital guide to the exhibition, including images of all 650 quilts, is available as a free app for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android smart phone. For more information and to download, visit folkartmuseum.org/infinitevariety.

Invinate Variety ... the details

Went back to see the Red & White Quilts today. Took pictures with details of just a few. Enjoy







A digital guide to the exhibition, including images of all 650 quilts, is available as a free app for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android smart phone. For more information and to download, visit folkartmuseum.org/infinitevariety.

Infinite Variety -- Three Centuries of Red & White Quilts

These quilts, collected by Joanna S. Rose, are spectacular! While the idea of hundreds of quilts is impressive, the actuality is overwhelming. This presentation of quilts is magical!

A digital guide to the exhibition, including images of all 650 quilts, is available as a free app for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android smart phone. For more information and to download, visit folkartmuseum.org/infinitevariety.

The American Folk Art Museum

Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum” launches the Year of the Quilt, the museum’s celebration of a glorious American art form and the creative contributions of three centuries of talented women.

New York City, NY

I'm here in New York City to see the Quilts presented by the American Folk Art Museum. 650 Red & White Quilts from a private collection plus 2 other groups from the museums collection!

Rented the cutest little, I do mean little, apartment right on Madison Ave, 2 blocks from the Red & White Quilts.

I did take some time to See The Lion King while I am in town. For a visual person like me it was glorious!

Washington Shop Festival

Tri-County Quilt Shop Festival March 23 - 26

Looking for a fun event this week end? Check out the 4th annual Quilt Shop Festival. This year's theme is Birds of a Feather. All 14 participating shops have created a special quilt.

Too Good to be True!

Words of wisdom from Charlotte Warr Andersen: "I thought I'd give you all a heads up about Frixion Erasable pens. A student showed me hers on my last road trip. She drew a line, thin but quite black, and then ironed it and the line totally disappeared. It looked like the coolest thing ever!

So I went in search of these pens, which you can get a Staples. I bought the pack that has three colors in it - black, red and blue. Being quite the skeptic about things that are too good to be true, I read the back of the package. In small print it says: "Do not expose to extreme temperatures (<14degrees> 140 degrees F). If pen is exposed to temperature that reaches 140 degrees F the ink will be colorless when writing. To restore color, cool to at least 14 degrees F and the ink will again write in color."

Aha! I said to myself. If you iron the ink it's going to be way over 140 degrees so it's going to disappear. So I took some fabric and scribbled on it with all three colors. Then I ironed it and, sure enough, all the scribbles disappeared. But then I put it in the freezer for about 10 minutes and all the lines reappeared. I left it for about a week and a half. Today I tried to wash the ink out. It didn't come out with soap and hard scrubbing and not even after I put rubbing alcohol on it. So then I ironed the piece dry and all the lines disappeared and then it went back to the freezer and all the lines reappeared (perhaps just a bit fainter).

This experiment was enough to persuade me that these pens are too good to be true and even sort of creepy - the ink is always there even if you can't see it. I wouldn't use them on any fabric or quilt you really cared about."

Star Bright - Greenwood Public Library Quilters

Hi Melody,

Our Star Bright quilt is coming along well. Attached are two photos, of the completed middle section and the rest of it in pieces ready to sew. The colours are better in real life, but you can get the idea of it. Today we sewed all the dark setting triangles, so next week we will be attaching them to the dark star blocks.
Thanks again for the pattern page you sent--it was a great help to us! We'll send more pictures in the coming weeks.

Judy Foucher
for the Greenwood Public Library quilters

Pine Needles Quilt Guild

Just home from visiting the Pine Needles Quilt Guild in Wrightwood California. Wrightwood, town without a traffic light. Elevation 6,000 ft. Approximate population, 3,300. Thanks to my great hostess Marion, I can truly say "Visit, vacation or come live in Wrightwood -- enjoy a taste of their mountain hospitality anytime."

Nancy showed her Eye Candy Quilts during show and tell!

Rags Wearable Art Sale & Show

Great place to shop for one-of-a-kind jewelry, clothing, handbags, accessories and more! RAGS is a fun, fashionable way to support YWCA Pierce County's domestic violence prevention and intervention programs.

Larson's Mercedes-Benz of Tacoma
4001 20th St East, Fife WA (I-5 between exit 136A and 137)

March 11 & 12: 10 am - 6 pm
March 13: 10 am -4 pm

Quilt Show

The Green Flash
I make quilts that celebrate the things I see. The view from my window, the rising moon, stars in the sky, flowers in a garden, or a tropical sunset. I love to blend my passion for traditional design with my desire to experiment with color. The results are often surprising . . . a fantasy tropical sunset.

This quilt incorporates many commercial fabrics. All piecing and quilting were done by machine.