There were many wonderful landscape quilts at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival.
This is Quiet: Little Stony Creek, by Tina Freudenberger
Check out her amazing waterfall detail.
Hope Wilmarth made this next quilt, called Shoreline Serenade.
This one gave me a joyous response, because about a year ago my husband and I visited the Grand Tetons National Park AND took a balloon ride there. It was the highlight of our trip! Although this quilt depicts a different area of the US Southwest, it really reminded me of our wonderful adventure.
It’s made by Carol Monti and called Quiet Side.
Here’s a detail shot. At first I thought the dark animals were bison, in line with my memory. But, as you can see, they’re cows.
Not actually landscape, but depicting natural vegetation, this quilt by Marianne Williamson, is called Summer Heat #2.
And, I guess my own quilt Florida Native #2 also falls into this nature category. It was there as part of the “Let the Sun Shine In” traveling exhibit.
I really enjoyed the show and hope to go again, sometime.
Did you have a favorite quilt from the show?
Ellen Lindner
I love your newsletter, but none of the photos come through any longer. I have to go and access your blog through your web page. Tedious! This just started happening in recent months.
Oh, I’m so sorry. These sorts of issues are always so frustrating.
I’m going to resend the newsletter to you. At the top (or sort of in the FROM field) will be the option to “View in Web Browser.” Please try viewing it that way and see if it works any better. I’ll do some trouble shooting in the meantime.
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Oh, Ellen, I wish I had known you were attending the show. I have been going since 1996 as I live close by and am always inspired by the quality and variety of quilts (and vendors!). I would love to have been able to connect with you. My favorite quilt was by one of our guild members, Sandy Curran, #1009 “Age is Relative”. I am a loyal fan of her quilts (as well as yours). It was nice to have Florida represented, too! Keep up the great work!
Hi Mary Frances,
I love Sandy’s quilt, too! I know her from an online group and got to meet her while at the show.
It would have been nice to meet you.
Your nature piece is not only interesting in its color concept but also the compositin. The quilting certainly adds to the dimensionality—and doesn’t look ‘quilty’ but looks natural.
Thanks so much, Sylvia! It was important to me that the veins of the leaf look 3D, so I used black tulle to create shadows. Glad you like it!
Thanks for sharing those photos. It’s always fascinating to see other people’s works as curated by an artist whose work I love!
I’m glad you enjoyed them, Lif!
I really like your piece.
Thanks so much for sharing these quilts with us. I liked best yours and also the one with the cows!!!
Many congratulations
Thanks, Beatriz. I’m glad you enjoyed them!