Last Friday I made a very quick trip to Durango for the opening of the SAQA “Balance” exhibit, and this lovely quilt was hanging next to mine.
I met the artist Nancy Baldwin Woods, and she told me about her piece. It is called “Stick the Landing” and it is from a photo she took at the coastline. In fact she showed me the photo and I enjoyed studying how she had taken the original image and interpreted it for this art quilt. She created the feathers of the birds with various patterns of batiks, which is how I like to work also. I was so delighted that our pieces were hanging side by side….and I recognized many of the batiks as ones we’ve carried here at eQuilter.
Everywhere I travel, I take photos. I take them on my cell phone. I have small and large cameras that hang around my neck or across my shoulder, depending on the subject matter. I post cell phone snapshots on my personal Instagram account, as inspiration from the beauty around me. (Of course, we have eQuilter’s Instagram page as well.) My most inspiring photos go in a big fat digital folder on my laptop labeled “Design”, and my screensaver randomly cycles through about 10,000 images saved over the years. This is often how a new idea will germinate, as my screensaver shows me a different set of random art inspirations every day. Be sure to back up your photo archive!
Do you have an inspiration file? We used to rip pages out of magazines and make mood boards. Today we have so many ways to collect, review and display these images.
Sharing our passion for fabric,
Luana
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Travel/Lecture Dates:
July 27 – Aug 6 – Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK
Sept 12 – SAQA “Camouflage” reception – Arizona Sonora Desert Museum – Tucson AZ
Oct 9-12 – Houston Quilt Festival – Soul Stories
Nov 2-6 – Art Quilt Tahoe – Independent Study
Nov 7-10 – Sacred Threads – Indianapolis – Art & Activism lecture
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