Yesterday, I spent the afternoon checking out the quilt show and vendors market at the 2011 North Carolina Quilt Symposium. Quilting is a hobby interest of mine, long time readers of this blog will recall that I have covered past symposiums in here and reviewed quilt exhibits and museums as well. I think though, even if I did not myself quilt, I ( Read more... )

In the first post on this exhibit, i covered the wearable art/accessories and their "Studio Art" category. This post concentrates more on the works shown that took their compositional cues from traditional quilt patterns and sizes.

( lots of images )

First, the job posting--since i've been such the gloom-monger about theatres closing in the news, i'd feel remiss if i didn't help propogate this *excellent* job opportunity. No less than four former colleagues have forwarded it to me, and to be honest, if i weren't planning to operate with the Triangle as my "home base" for at minimum five more ( Read more... )

This weekend, i attended the annual exhibition of quilts by the local Durham-Orange Quilters' Guild, held at the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, NC ( Read more... )

Harrisonburg, VA is a small town on the western side of Shenandoah National Park, home to James Madison University and to the Virginia Quilt Museum. I'm an avid fan of quilting and quilt history, and had previously visited the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA, which i loved (follow the link for my overview post). When i discovered the ( Read more... )

In my non-professional crafty life, I enjoy making quilts. I recently finished a large pirate-ships-and-cowgirls-themed quilt--my seventeenth--as a gift for a good friend who was moving to another state. (You might wonder, what do pirate ships and cowgirls have to do with one another? Not much, really, when you consider it from a logical standpoint ( Read more... )