A quilt show

Rita Streimer has been teaching quilting for a long time and won’t stop until they remove her on a gurney. She has organized a show of her student’s quilts, of course, I went.An interesting way to display the large ones.This one caught my eye, simple yet very effective.Not only are the center squares three-dimensional, Sandy really tried hard to match the stripes.I missed the binding until someone else pointed it out to me. Sandy didn’t want a solid binding, she also didn’t want to make a facing, so she carefully matched each square on the binding, one again trying and mostly succeeding in matching the stripes. What can I say but WOW!One of Rita’s signature design elements is the quarter inch border, done here in multiple fabrics. Nice feather quilting!The block is quite simple, it’s how the quilter plays with the colors across a number of blocks.This one was titled ‘In progress’ because it is.Fun with fussy cutting.A different kind of fussy cutting, how to achieve akaleidoscopee. Here in a very tight print.Here using a much looser print, achieving a similar yet different effect.This show was in Canoga Park, in a wonderful area that was once the downtown, before it was annexed to Los Angeles. Today this area has a lot of antique shops, a theater and some cute restaurants. It also has some interesting old buildings, of the kind of doesn’t see often in the valley. Brick is rare. This whole look is rare, what lovely stain glass windows! The interesting color on the outdoor lamp.Another is an example of an ‘almost craftsman’ with a painted front door.A much newer building, an office building.Finally, taste is not objective, but why is one little bird left unpainted?

Leah

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