Friday night I went to the opening reception for Sue Sherman and Ricky Tims at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden Colorado.
Ricky has a massive exhibit in the main part of the gallery, and all of the pieces are for sale. So go visit the show and maybe pick up your own precious piece of Ricky Tims history. I got a sneak peek of his large quilt that is going to Houston. (*shhh!* – on his phone) I can’t wait to see it in person!
Sue Sherman is an award-winning Canadian quilter who makes art quilts about endangered species. Her dye-painted machine-quilted pieces are in the 2nd gallery, with beautiful lighting that shows the details in her quilts. As you know, show venues don’t always have the best lighting but here with this (eQuilter-sponsored) lighting, you can examine her fine stitch work up close.
I had a special visitor to eQuilter and my studio this week – Renee Fleuranges Valdes is in town as the CQC speaker, so she stopped by for lunch and a visit to my studio. Renee’s storytelling quilts are such a delight. It has been a busy week!
Sunday I am flying to Birmingham UK, hand-carrying my quilt “Kubota’s Dream” for the Festival of Quilts exhibit. I will be there all week, looking forward to a SAQA get-together in the Hilton Lobby Friday after the show.
If you see me at the show, don’t be shy…come up and say hello! I love meeting eQuilter customers and fellow quilters at this show.
Thanks to those of you on Facebook who gave me ideas about a bag to carry my rolled-up quilt on the plane. I ended up getting a ‘replacement bag for folding chair’ that is about 40″ long and 7″ wide. Perfect!
I have 8 quilts out now for shows, and if you’d like to see my work in person in the next few months, you can see the schedules on my artist website on the Exhibits page.
Wow, July is winding down which means kids are going back to school soon. Some of you will be more busy with the school year, and some of you will have more time to quilt. Either way, it is a time of transitions and anticipation. The heat is bearable, knowing that a seasonal change is just around the corner.
My Bernina 790 is having a ‘Spa Day’ while I am on this trip. Many machine techs have a wait list so if your machine is due for a cleaning and annual tuneup, contact your local shop and see if you need to get on that wait list.
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Luana and Paul
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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 – Tuscon 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
Nov 21-23 – Taiwan Quilt Festival – Taipei
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