Happy National Quilting Day!
As in the past few years, I hung a quilt outside today for National Quilting Day as prescribed by the Quilt Alliance organization. This is a vintage feed sack quilt that definitely employs a "make do" attitude.
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| Vintage feed sack quilt hanging outside for National Quilting Day, 2023. |
A few other favorite quilts hanging inside are:
"What to Put in the Soup" that won Best of Show at A Mountain Quiltfest in 2004. If you know my husband, you'll recognize the subject of this quilt.
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| "What to put in the soup?" 2003 |
"Guitar Strings Improv" was featured in "The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters" by Sherri Lynn Wood.
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| "Guitar Strings Improv" 2014 |
Exhibits at the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY
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| From the Kaffe: 85 and Fabulous exhibit. |
The current exhibits include Kaffe: 85 and Fabulous with selected quilts from Kaffe Fasset's longtime career in textiles;.
To Fill a Field, an exhibit of contemporary quilts by Canadian artist Justin Ming Yong;
A stunning exhibit of the large-scale floral quilts of Velda Newman called Larger than Life;
And an international collaborative exhibit of quilts from Chili Quilting and textile artists from southeast Ohio (TSAO) called Flora, Fauna and Landscape/Paisaje.
Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House presentation focuses on community care
Today, I attended an online presentation, Craft as an Embodied Care Practice that was sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation at the Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House. The presentation was a panel discussion about the intersection of craft, care and community, and about community art projects that show how crafting can nurture well-being and healing for individuals and communities. The talk was in conjunction with the Woodlawn Needlework Show, Craft as Comfort: Joy in Needlework.
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| Craft as an Embodied Care Practice presentation. |
It's been a weekend of textiles, needle arts and crafts.
