Friday, August 04, 2006

Need A Little Inspiration?

It has been warm here in Georgia, I am used to it, but still it is pretty warm when you are out trying to do yard work. Well needless to say it is coming along slowly. By the time I get in at night I am whooped.

The 2006 winners of the Sydney Quilt Show is online in case you were like me and just couldn’t make it this year. 
You can view the quilts here.
They have some great looking quilts for inspiration. Best of show is a wonderful Baltimore style quilt.
My favorites are:
Iron Lace - Spring by Eileen Campbell
It Started with Auntie Green by Pam Curtis
Tango in the Wind by Luixin Newman, the quilting on this is wonderful. but then again they don’t call her the Thimble lady for nothing.
At Home byJan Duddle
Genie Out of the Bottle by Wendy Scott reminds me of something Ricky Tims would do.
I think they had a great lot of quilts for their show and I am sure the judging was intense.

The 1st and 2nd place art quilts are very, very nice.

My most favorite quilt though wasn’t even a prize winner. It is the raffle quilt on their homepage.
You can see it here.
Anyone that knows me, knows I love daisies and this quilt is full of wonderful looking daisies.

This guild also has what they call a Friday showcase. it is really nice, they feature a different quilt artists work you can see some of them here

I did get some quilting done this morning on my wallhanging, I am not real satisfied with it, I should have used mettalic thread but oh well. Next time right.

I also have been staring at my quilt studio and already I am ready to move a few things around. Mainly due to lighting. I took out the overhead fixture that was there a few months ago and it is wonderful. I have 3 halogen spotlight type lights and they are wonderful but at night if I am not directly in one of those lights I can’t see very well. I have my sewing table in the middle of the room under those lights, but I want to move the table up against the wall and bring my cutting table and fabric carts to the middle so that I can always have it fully extended with the large mat on top and the ironing on the other side of it.  I would then put a 2 or 3 fixture track light on the wall over my sewing table. If I keep adding stuff with that uses power I am going to have to get my own electrical panel for my sewing room.

Well I am calling it a night, my Redsox lost, they are playing Tampa next.
Have a great Friday everyone.

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