Exhibit review (part two): NC Quilt Symposium fiber art show

[labricoleuse]

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.

Comments

[naeelah]

Lots of great work there. The stitching on Circles I is amazing. The Cash blanket would be about 20 times better if they'd left off the text. (Especially since it's done in that obnoxious inspirational/spiritual poster font/format. It looks so unbalanced. Why is it in a single row on top and squished in the bottom? Ugh. If they'd wanted lyrics, I think they should've embroidered it as a hidden design element - something that just looks abstract from a distance.)

The wedding gown one is really lovely.

I'm becoming more and more interested in quilts and I think I'd like to try my hand at starting one sometime in the next year. So, keep the quilt posts coming. :) I'm mystified as to how anyone plans out the complex layering like in rotary madness.

[labricoleuse]

When i used to work fabric retail for pocket money in undergrad, i had a coworker who planned out quilts on a HUGE corkboard on the wall of her sewing room. I had another coworker who didn't plan them at all, just let them grow organically.

I don't know for sure because i didn't talk to the artist, but i suspect that part of the significance of the title "Rotary Madness," is that she employed some of the speed-cutting techniques that you can do with a rotary cutter and stacked fabrics to crank out various elements of that one.

If you do start making one, i hope you will share pix! :D

[girfan]

Those are amazing!