This
last week I've been very distracted looking at all the fabulous masks and costumes at Carnivale in Venice. You may recall
that in September I gave 2 presentations at the US
Embassy in Rome, thanks to my American friend Susan Fiorentino who was the
curator of the quilt show there. I was extended an invitation to go to Carnivale
in Feb 2014 – to dress up in period costume and go to private events with some
residents of Venezia. Now that the 2013 holiday is past, Carnivale 2014 seems
like more of a reality! Very exciting!
I am also rummaging through my
files of photos from the Tokyo
Quilt Festival, and I wanted to share another viruoso quilt that is a mixture of
piecing with vintage silks, and intricate appliqued dots. This large octopus
quilt was very eye-catching at the show: it was impossible to walk by without
gasping!
One thing that always catches one's eye at this show are the
incredible quilts with hundreds of appliqued circles and dots. I met one
award-winning quilter whose spiral quilt design had over 2000 appliqued dots!
The mind boggles… but the quilt is exquisite.
Do you remember in August
2011 when I did a
video at the Birmingham show of the Tentmakers of Cairo? There is a fundraiser for a documentary about
these amazing men and their beautiful applique work in Cairo, but time for
fundraising is running out. This documentary will
bring their work to a much
bigger audience and, for one of the higher donation levels, gives you an
opportunity to own a small sample of their
intricate applique
work.
You may have read about my Color Marketing Group conferences, and
wished that you could go. Guess what? There are several regional
CMG ChromaZone meetings coming up – the Denver-area ChromaZone is March 8 at
the Hunter Douglas campus in Broomfield, and you don't have to be a member to
attend. However you DO have to prepare a color forecast presentation with color
swatches, for this working color-forecasting workshop.
A reminder that I
will be giving a power point presentation on Modern Color Trends at QuiltCon –
this Sun Feb 24, at 11 am at the Austin Convention Center.
WOW!! I’ve just watched the video of the Tentmakers of Cairo. Not only are they absolutely amazing but it also highlights that in many cultures men are the artistic ones. And it’s men who keep traditions going. Thank you for showing these works of art.
Launa, thanks so much for sharing the Egyptian quilts! They are so beautiful!
Jan Price
Well, I like the octopus and think it looks like a modern quilt just fine… and guess what it does not really fit the modern elements as the modern peeps write of themselves. Well, so what you say…. what I am saying is all this defining of modern quilts is a bit of of posturing…. solid fabrics, white and gray are not the only thing needed for modern quilts. As others have said… time will tell what we are really seeing.