If you're tired of hearing about the Houston quilt show, you should probably skip on through. I still have many photos of quilts from the show, and everything was worth seeing. That makes it really difficult to leave one out. If you've seen part 1 (posted last Saturday) or part 2 (last Sunday) then you know that the quilts are pretty spectacular. The ones I'm posting tonight are some of the quilts with a modern bent to them. Most were in the MQG section, but not all were and I've mixed up photos so badly that I really just don't know.
They are all modern, though, and as I look at them, I wish that I had created every one.
I have to explain this next quilt: it's a Braille quilt that spells out the words for color. You read the dots from left to right. Each set of dots represents a letter, so if you decipher a couple of words, you can eventually decipher them all: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
It's made in a linen and sewn in tight horizontal lines leaving out the circles (which are perfect!). I really love this one. For some reason it spoke to me and I wanted so much to touch and handle it. Luckily my husband was with me and forced me to behave. Such a tactile idea and such a beautiful, thought-provoking idea.
Was I right or what? Come back tomorrow for more about the Fiber Arts Festival in Plaquemine. We'll visit the Lock Museum and the mighty Mississippi.
I'm still enjoying all these beautiful quilts, thanks. Like you I often want to touch when I am looking at textiles and have to restrain myself.
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