One of my favorite special exhibits each year is “Celebrate Life”, designed to showcase quilts that reflect life-moments — weddings, births, birthdays, memorials — created by quilters who want to celebrate life (or remember it) through fabric and stitch.
Let’s celebrate along with them…..
The central picture is of her parents on their 66th anniversary, and the hands celebrate their legacy!
I am so impressed with portrait quilts, especially those done in the square grid style.
The title says it all!!
AND, there is some incredible threadwork involved too…..
This is a “Sew Kind of Wonderful” pattern, and sewn to perfection!!
The theme for this quilt is “Make the most of every day, and hold the iguana!” Great advice!!
This is what was said in the artist statement…. “Memory Walk” is based on a photo of my mom and her boyfriend as they walked the halls of their memory care facility. The photo was taken about 2 months before they died….Mom died first, and Bill died exactly two weeks after she passed.
This quilt hit very close to home as the story is almost EXACTLY what happened to my Mom as she aged, and honestly, the people even look like my Mom and her friend, Fred!
Seeing this quilt sent me down a rabbit-hole (so to speak), looking at optical illusion quilts. There needs to be one of those in my future!!
Finally, this was my favorite quilt in the collection….
Her inspiration came from seeing her nieces lined up for photos at a wedding…so tall, stylish, and fun-loving.
You can’t look at this without smiling and, face it, that is what life is all about!!!
More to come…..
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