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Or is that “God is in the details?”  Either way, it was the details that often demanded my attention at the World Quilt – FL, which was recently held in Orlando.

As you might expect, many of the most exceptional quilts were the winners from the World Quilt traveling competition.  Several of them had abundant use of texture.

Ann Marie Miro quilt, detail

Quilt made by Jutta Erner, detail

Synthetic fabrics were used fairly frequently.  Often they were scrunched, melted, or distressed in some other fashion.

Detail of quilt made by C. Crugel, from South Africa

I especially liked the raised circular stitching, above.  Little washers (or something similar) were stitched over to give the raised effect.

Debby Williams, from New Zealand painted the many geometric star shapes on her quilt

There was also some exquisite detail work.  Check out the border on this quilt.  The feathers were appliqued on AND stuffed!  A subtle little detail, rewarded only to those who studied it closely.  (Or, in my case, overhead someone else who was studying it closely.)

Made by Ansa Breytenbach, fron New Zealand. Detail image

How about the quilting in this next piece?  It won “Best of Country,” for the United Kingdom.

By Annelize Littlefair

Not a detail shot, I thought this quilt was rather interesting.  I liked the idea of sketching people doing everyday activities, with just a hint of color.

By Alison Laurence, from New Zealand

And the detail shot.

Not too many years ago, I could generally identify which quilts were from which country.  But, for me, those days are gone.  Everyone seems to be influenced by everyone else.  I hope we don’t get too homogenized!

Ellen Lindner

I really enjoyed a visit to the World Quilt Show – Florida, in Orlando, yesterday.  There were many wonderful quilts, great vendors, and FRIENDS to visit with!  It doesn’t get much better than that.

I took photos of some of my favorite quilts, as well as ones with something that was either new to me or especially well done.

Perhaps you’ve seen this wonderful quilt online.  It’s called Coco, and it was made by Neroli Henderson, from Australia.

The texture on this piece was amazing.  It was composed of TINY little snippets of fabric sewn in place, (although you couldn’t see the stitching.)  No tulle overlay was used to control all those pieces, though!  I’m not quit sure how she managed it.

This next quilt was also made by an Australian: Sue de Vanny.  It was very well done and won an award for machine workmanship.

The tram had many wonderful details, again made from small pieces of fabric.

An appropriate destination, don’t you think?

The color and composition of Susan Hotchkis’ quilt really appealed to me.

As I got closer, I was even more intrigued by the techniques and textures at work.  VERY heavy machine stitching was used to add texture and color in some areas.

Although it all appeared rather random, I could tell the artist put great thought into.  (See the additional blue and yellow stitching below?)

I almost walked right by this quilt.  Just because it was sorta low contrast, which doesn’t always get my attention.

It’s called ‘Leafy”  Sea Dragon,  and it was made by Lois Parish-Evans.  Although the sea horse is nice, the things that got my attention were the intricate side parts, which had lots more contrast.  I wondered how they were done.

I was surprised by the answer, which was explained on the sign.  Lois started with plain white fabric and quilted the entire design.  The sea horse is stitched in black, but most of it is done in wonderful little dainty patterns with white thread.  Then, she used Inktense pencils to color in the design.

Oh my!  The tiny white lines you see below are the quilting lines.  The spaces in between have been colored in to give this wonderful result.  I’m kinda spell bound by this.

These images are just the start of my pictures.  I’ll have more for you in the next post or two.

It’s quilt season.  I hope you get to go to a show!

Ellen Lindner