I went to Ontario twice this week, once for a great class with Rosa Rojas of Apliquick fame. That will be a separate post, all about the amazing class. Then I went back with my son in law and saw the show. Yes, I bought some things, also, another post.
I LOVE the Bob Ross challenge. First of all, who doesn’t love Bob Ross. Second of all, the variety of colors made this a fun challenge. Sorry to say they are going with monochromatic again next year, pink for Princess Diana. meh, I don’t like the monochromatic challenges – boring.
Each piece was very different. I have come to realize, that at a quilt show, it is very hard to look at a wall of small quilts. Sure, each individual one can be amazing, but when there is a wall of them together, it is very hard to differentiate. I think I’d feel the same way if these were all paintings bunched together, one needs some space.
Mosaic! I would actually love to see this in glass tesserae. I think each piece is hand appliquéd down.
Speaking of very fine appliqué. Each of these dots, from the tiny white to the slightly larger ones – are hand appliquéd. Btw, this year most of my pictures are just segments of the quilts. I found myself more interested in the details.
Speaking of appliqué and amazing quilting stitches, who captured this image of my grandson?? I’ll be honest, I am not sharing the names of the quilters. I didn’t even record them. I’m not passing these off as my own, I’m just a spectator at a show. I am sharing the images I like, if you want information, go to the Road2CA website, they have all the information there. I’m not a publisher, I’m not a library, I just viewed quilts I like.
I clearly am intrigued by appliqué this year. This too was hand appliquéd.
I love the colors here, as well as the workmanship. Of course all the quilts were very well made.
OK, so here is a quilt.
and here is the close up of the three dimensional elements.
One of the things I love about Road is that the quilts aren’t political. Sure people can read politics into everything. But there wasn’t anything overtly political. So maybe you think the image of a boy waving the American flag is ‘rightwing’ Or a quilt that spelled out how the chromosomes of Down syndrome look like. Maybe that is too ‘pro-life’ since the maker was referencing her own child.
I’m done going to Quiltcon, I got tired of knowing there were rows of quilts I have to avoid – all very political. All very left leaning. When Quiltcon has a pro-life quilt, I’ll go back, but I’m not holding my breathe that that will ever happen.
I like the workmanship, the colors, the designs. The subject doesn’t mean much to me, but one can enjoy the work without being overly concerned about the subject. Art doesn’t have to be cudgel beating people over the head.
There was great piecing as well.
This may be paper pieced. I must say, it was Saturday, the show was very very busy. Even if I wanted to read the labels, it would have been hard to do. I just enjoyed viewing and walking by without an in depth inspection of each one.
I usually don’t like rainbows. This one is enough not a rainbow that I actually really like it. I also like the use of busy prints behind the solid appliqué.
A wonderful old fashioned quilt, combining everything. Even Broderie press. Which is where mostly flowers or birds are cut from Chintz and apliqued on.
Then there is this amazing hand quilting. Gone are the days that I can do this. I don’t think I ever was this meticulous.
Domestic machine quilting.
Very impressed. Once again, I’ll never be this good with my machine quilting. Which is one of the things I love about these shows. It is such a pleasure to see the best of the best out there in the quilting world
I love it when a quilter created more interest with different colored thread.
This was just a little bit of the show. So many people are sharing on blogs and on IG. Yoch and I had a great time. It is always fun bumping into people, some of whom, I only see at this show.
Leah