Special Displays 2024 - Quilt Show Reno
A Celebration of Quilts - By Truckee Meadows Quilters Guild
Quilt Show Reno is excited to welcome Truckee
Meadows
Quilt Guild to our show. The guild members have come
together and produced HUNDREDS of original beautiful quilts.
The quilts have been made with a wide variety of materials,
techniques, interpretations, and artistic abilities.
For
easy viewing...the quilts will be displayed according to
category.
Truckee Meadows Quilt Guild has been
meeting for fun and inspiration for over 45 years. For more
information about this group of enthusiastic quilters can be
reached at
www.tmquilters.com.
Antique/Vintage Quilts - By Truckee Meadows Quilters Guild
Do you love looking back at antique and vintage quilts?
You’ll love this collection brought to you by the Truckee
Meadows Quilters Guild. They are truly timeless.
Explore the wide variety of patterns and materials used as
time has passed. Note the hand quilted stitches and,
sometimes flawed mishaps.
These quilts provide us
with an insight into the culture, and history of the era
they were made in and have made them cherished possessions
that have been handed down through the generations.
Stone Portraits & Sacred Stonescapes by Denise Labadie
Denise
has been a featured solo exhibiting artist at major national
exhibitions in the US, the UK, France, Italy, China, South
Korea, Luxembourg, Germany, The Netherlands, and Spain. She
is a multiple Quilt National award winner (both People’s
Choice and Craftsmanship).
Denise's art quilt
portraits of megalithic stones (think “Stonehenge”) and more
recent monastic ruins and passageways are known for their
strong composition, hand-painted fabric, assertive textures
and dimensionality, and overall craftsmanship.
These
structures are timeless, with the resulting quilts
oftentimes evoking in viewers – like the stones themselves –
surprisingly emotional, almost cellular remembrances of
human pasts and stories largely forgotten.
Point Reyes Boat and a Group of Art Quilters - by Group of Art Quilters
A
few years ago, a small group of friends got together for
some good clean quilting fun. They took this picture and
contemplated it for a few years. 2024 was the year to finish
their versions as they reunited for some more of that
quilting fun.
Please enjoy the art quilt visions of
this boat that was washed ashore years prior.
Our
understanding is that the storms along the California coast
in '23 and '24 have destroyed even more of what remained of
this long-lost floating vessel.
It’s a Wild, Wild World of Color - By Carson Valley Quilt Guild
The
Carson Valley Quilt Guild has members from throughout Carson
Valley, and as far-flung as Dayton, Markleeville, Smith
Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Incline Village with a membership of
nearly 150 members. This year, the guild hosts a challenge
with the theme, “It’s a Wild, Wild World of Color.” for its
members to create a small quilt, incorporating specific
fabrics and/or notions, that reflects the quilter’s
interpretation of this theme.
37 members have
created a quilt using two different multi-colored fabrics, a
ribbon, and a decorative “steampunk” notion, to show their
“Wild, Wild World of Color” inspiration.
We hope you
enjoy this exhibit and the creative work of our members.
If you would like to know more about the Carson Valley Quilt Guild, please visit our website at
http://www.CVQG.com .
Sea Creatures - By Quilts on the Wall
Sea
Creatures....not limited to "under the sea"!
Webster’s dictionary defines a creature: A living being,
especially an animal. A human. An imaginary or fantastical
being.
The quilts in this display are considered
artwork that depicts an underwater experience.
Quilts
on the Wall are a group of textile artists dedicated to
learning about and sharing art quilts. Their projects are
displayed on the wall rather than on the bed. The group
votes on at least two Challenges a year allowing members to
create their vision of the theme. Both juried and non-juried
exhibits travel to local and national venues such in quilt
and textile art shows, and are displayed in art
galleries.
Quilts featured:
Top: Going with the Flow by Cheryl Guacci
Bottom: Ashnah by Charlene Touch
Visions in Textiles - By Mountain Art Quilters
Mountain Art Quilters is a group of fifty fabric artists centered in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California.
We meet monthly in Nevada City to share our expertise, inspiration, and ideas for producing beautiful works of art utilizing the latest in sewing, quilting, and embellishing techniques.
We are a welcoming community of artists and anyone interested in learning more about us can email:
mountainartquilters@gmail.com.
A Tribute to elinor peace bailey......1944-2023
In the early 1990's elinor developed a
way for virtually anyone to break through to their innermost
creative self. Using a basic doll pattern, the maker can
play with its size, shape, hair, attire, etc... She then
sent the pattern to a handful of Industry stars to challenge
them with what they could do with their imaginations. The
results were fabulous.
Today we challenge YOU, to tap
into your innermost creativity - whether you are a quilter,
dollmaker, crafter, beader; the list is endless.... ANYONE,
can take this simple pattern and create a flat doll, a
dimensional doll -- add it to a tote bag or appliqué the
figure onto an article of clothing.....the options truly are
limitless. elinor published a book, "Mother Plays With
Dolls", The photos from this challenge and elinor's
insightful words are in this treasured book (which is out of
print --but still available on the web.
If you would
like to participate in the tribute to elinor, send
the entry form and the cost of the pattern to enter the
challenge is $10.00 including postage (and return postage if
we need to ship)-- we will need to receive your completed
project by May 14, 2024 or delivered to Fabric-Chicks on
Tuesday, June 11, 2 pm-5 pm at the Grand Sierra Silver State
Pavilion Room located on the lower level of the hotel across
from the Spa. All completed projects will be displayed
during Quilt Show Reno 2024.
"
elinor was an inspiration to artists
everywhere to help them embrace their creative side",
www.thequiltshow.com
"A trailblazer in the world of fiber and doll art.
she will always be remembered as one of the most influential
figures in the world of fiber art", Barb Kobe who has
taken over elinor's- Association of People Who Play with
Dolls Newsletter -- continues elinor’s legacy and digitize
elinor's Newsletter for future generations to learn from
elinor.
Tribute to elinor Entry Form
2024 Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)
Using a variety of techniques, members express their view of the world around them. Inspired by nature, themes, and people.
Members use fabric and thread as their medium. Never constrained by the limits of fabric and thread, rather pushing them to say something unique.
SAQA is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art quilt and the artists who create them.
We are an information resource on all things art quilts related for our members as well as the public. Founded in 1989 by an initial group of 50 artists, SAQA members now number more than 3,400 artists, teachers, collectors, gallery owners, museum curators, and corporate sponsors.
Quilt shown: "Gridlock" by Sigrid Simonds
Name That Tune - By the Gulf States Quilting
Association (GSQA)
Thirty-seven
members of the Gulf States Quilting Association (GSQA) made
forty-two 8” diameter round quilts for this exhibit; each
quilt representing the title of a song chosen by the
quilter. This exhibit uses six canvas panels (each is
ten-foot wide by 4 foot-6 inches high) with a painted
musical staff and the notes to the song “Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star” attached to the canvas. Each 8-inch diameter
quilt is attached to a musical note in the song.
Each
8-inch diameter quilt is attached to a musical note in the
song. New lyrics to the song with a reference to quilting
are written below the musical staff. Below each note of the
song is a number, and this exhibit becomes interactive when
participants attempt to match the number of a song to the
correct title of each song, all of which are listed on a
“Playsheet”.
There will be an easel with information
about the quilt makers and an “Answer Sheet” which provides
the list of the numbers and the actual name of each quilt
for the participants to compare their guesses.
Snap
a photo of the Play Sheet to play along as you walk through
the exhibit.
Monarch - Cherrywood Fabrics 2023 Challenge
Chrysalis
Collection:The Monarch Cherrywood Challenge
is a juried art quilt contest sponsored by Cherrywood Hand
Dyed Fabrics® with support from Mistyfuse®. The challenge
was to create an original 20-inch square quilted artwork
using eight colors of fabric, no other colors of fabric may
be added. The only way to add more colors is with thread,
paint, pencil, ink, beads, etc. The theme of the challenge
is the iconic Monarch butterfly, which is in the endangered
category of the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.
The iconic
Monarch butterfly is in trouble. In the summer of 2022, it
was put on the Endangered List. Let's change that. Not only
can you plant the seeds of milkweed, but you can also plant
the seeds of creativity. Can you do it with just eight
colors? We encouraged you to push yourself creatively and
think outside the box.
Quilts for Soldiers
The
mission of the Quilts for Soldiers is to cover ALL
war-wounded and injured service members and veterans touched
by War with comforting and healing Quilts. Whether injuries
are physical or psychological, Quilts for Soldiers offers
comfort and support. Or as a six-year-old put it: "When the
'sholders' are 'warring' and they come home and are hurt,
the quilt makes them feel all comfy."
This is not
about politics. It's about people.
In 2015, The
Fabric Chicks Quilts for Soldiers ladies donated 125+
quilts. In 2016 we donated over 130. Once a month our
volunteers meet to work on putting together kits to then
take home and finish. If you are interested in participating
in this program, please contact our store. We will provide
you with a kit, or you can create and donate your quilt.
Recently we were honored to receive an award as a thank you
for all our effort.
• If you are interested in
participating in this program, please contact Fabric-Chicks
at beth@fabric-chicks.com and we will provide you with a
kit, or you can create and donate your quilts.
• Thank
you to all of you who donated supplies and/or your time!!
1st
Wednesday of the month, meetings are held at Fabric-Chicks,
1511 US Highway 395 N, Gardnerville NV 89410, 775.267.0204 -
www.fabric-chicks.com
Presented by Fabric-Chicks
More to come.....