Quilts Japan • Vision Museum of Textile Art

October 23, 2026 Elizabeth E.12 Comments

This treasure of a quilt by Satoko Kase of Tokyo Japan is about 10 inches square. I would have measured it, but didn’t have a tape measure nor did I dare get my fingers near it. It’s titled Dance of Migratory Birds.

The quilt was in a show not too far from our home and was held in San Diego. It’s called Quilts Japan; it’s the 17th Quilt Nihon exhibit, and the Vision Museum of Textile Art was one of four US venues that will be showing it.

The Museum is housed in part of the re-purposed naval base in San Diego, and I loved seeing signs like the ones below, showing that many spaces are filled with interesting enterprises (across from Barracks 19 is a charming cafe):

The exhibit was in about three rooms, not a huge display, but they packed a lot in.

Now that the introductions are over with, here are some of the quilts.

Hemp Leaf Pattern Window by Satoko Kase. This received a Publisher’s Award from Quilt Mania in the Award Category of Miniature, just like its friend at the top of the post. The category states: “quilts must measure less than or equal to 60 cm on each side [about 23 inches]. All aspects of the quilt are reduced and miniaturized.”

Those dots are about the size of a paper-punched dot –about a fat 1/8-inch.

Jump Out!! by Mayumi Yamagishi is about 9 inches square. It was awarded the Gold Award and the Governor of Tokyo Award. It felt like it was a very tiny room with quilty walls.

Pattern, Pattern! Pattern!! by Kuniko Kasai reminded me of the Chuck Nohara quilts that Susan Snooks (of Australia) and I did a few years back: lots of small blocks that are intensive patchwork.

Atsuko Oshio’s Wish. We struggled with the exposure levels and lighting. The quilts were brightly lit but sometimes this creates havoc in the picture taking. My apologies. This really was an exquisite quilt.

As You Like, by Chizuoko Kojima

This is for all intents and purposes, a simple block. However, the quilting elevates it to a special realm. It was amazing.

Overlap and underlap and skip.

Traditional, but pink? And that choice just made this quilt. This is Reiko Miyamura’s Coral (Baltimore Style).

I have a soft spot in my heart for Jack’s Chain variations, but this one towers above all else. A basic Jack’s Chain is based on nine-patches and they are linked together. However, Flower Tour, by Misako Sano, takes this to a new place with her borders, her sixteen-patches and appliqué.

I hope you can see the tiny blocks.

I did a Jack’s Chain using giant nine-patches, and drew up the pattern — found in the public domain, which can be found in my pattern shop for free. But you are on your own if you want to make this one. I loved the subtle trapunto in the border scallops.

Good Day by Michiko Oobuchi

Detail. Seeing it up close changed how I interacted with this design. I could see it as being one of those quilts where you make the blocks singly, maybe scraps after finishing up a big project, and then put them away one by one. Then when you have enough blocks, you make the quilt top. These blocks all appear to be of a similar “design” (or two), but the color variations are what change them. I realize, of course, that I am a sucker for Flying Geese, and there are plenty of them in this quilt!

Another miniature. This is Yoko Euhara’s Florence. I’m assuming that is in Florence, Italy? The city? But maybe it’s a woman’s name. It won the Publisher’s Award.

Teensy diamonds!

Another sort of simple traditional block taken to new heights by those borders! It’s titled Let’s Play in a Circle, by Chieko Yamaguchi.

As with all the gallery images, you can right-click to open them in a new tab to see them larger.

Stormy Sea, by Klein Elke

I really loved this one. Simple shapes with huge design impact. What if you just kept a stack of squares in a limited range of hues and sewed a narrow rectangle on a diagonal, splitting it. Then what if you just trued them all up to the same size? And then after a while, you started arranging them into a design, led by color? I make this piece of art sound simple, don’t I?

This one is a wall-sized quilt (no, they didn’t have measurements on them). It’s My Garden, by Yukiko Sugaya. She has layered regular quilting cottons with sheers. I hope you can see it:

And I loved her borders:

5 mm 2 by Hiromi Yokota. Just for reference, 5 millimeters is less than a quarter of an inch and each of the those logs in her small log cabin blocks are about that big. It was so charming.

If you start now, you might have it done by Christmas of 2027, I think. (But if it’s paper-pieced, it might take you to Christmas of 2028 to get the papers off.). It’s just perfect, and about 20″ square, if I had to take a guess.

Longing for a Mandala, by Mini Naomi Iida. A last miniature, but this wasn’t all of them. I’ll try to slide the last ones into different posts as I go along, over the next few weeks.

A bit closer. Just exquisite!

Under a Big Tree, by Chieko Akada. This was a good-sized quilt (you can see it in one of the first few photos) and we really could imagine getting under this tree.

As always, when at a quilt show, I talk to the quilters who are there, and that’s how I met (from left to right): Jan, Carleen, and Mary. Hi ladies! and thanks for chatting with me as I wandered around. That tall guy smiling on the left in the white shirt is my husband, and he helped me take all these photos (he’s quite good at quilt photos!).

The opening placard.

I had a wonderful time — a Grand Day Out — in San Diego. I have my eye on another exhibit, and then Road to California is coming up in January. In between we have ThanksgivingChristmasNewYear, or it feels like that. Let’s hope for some quilting here and there!

Quilt in thumbnail (and above) is Seirenka, by Hiroko Hoshino.

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Pour l’Amour du Fils • Quilt Show in Nantes, France 2026

May 9, 2026May 18, 2026 Elizabeth E.11 Comments

I’d read about this quilt show — For the Love of Thread — in the QuiltMania magazines for years. This year my husband and I were finally able to travel to Nantes and attend the show.

First, some basics: Nantes (pink star) is in Western France, near the Atlantic side of things; most people head to Paris, which is north-central France. The orange star is in Eastern France, and that’s where the Carrefour European Patchwork Show that’s held in the villages of Val D’argent is located. There are commercial tours to both shows, but we were able to plan and travel there ourselves. The Nantes show is held in April; the Carrefour is held in September. (Just do a web search if you are trying to find tours.)

Having traveled to other parts of France, Nantes was a total surprise to both of us — a delightful surprise. It’s the sixth largest city in this country, and has a different flavor than other regions we’ve visited. We arrived at Paris Charles De Gaulle airport at about 1 p.m., then took a train across the country (train left at about 5 p.m. and arrived in Nantes about 3 hours later). This gave us time at the airport to clear customs, catch a bit of lunch, check out the convenience store for chocolate (I’m crazy about the chocolate in France, even the drugstore variety), and then catch our train. While in Nantes, we stayed within walking distance of the Gare (or train station), which also allowed us to catch the tram to the quilt show the next morning.

We checked with the hotel clerk, who confirmed what we planned and after buying our tickets, we got on the tram with other women, carrying interesting bags and totes (a sure giveaway for a quilter). I saw so many interesting bags and totes while there, that I made a video.

After riding for a bit, wondering how we would figure out where to go when we got off the tram, a woman (I later learned her name was Sylvaine), got on the tram and started doing embroidery, so we struck up a conversation. After about a 20-minute ride, she walked us over from the tram when it arrived at the convention center, or Parc Expo. The quilters were already lining up a few minutes early.

[Note: Here’s a link to a collection of photos of people I met this day.]

We came in the main door (in the white building in the first photo) where they checked our bags, and walked out the other side. We followed the crowds as they walked over to this building, where the quilt show was being held. The white tents you see are the lunch places. We showed our tickets, got our wristbands (we had purchased a two-day ticket), and were in!

[Hope this video works…] Yes, everything’s in French, but fabric and smiles are a universal language. Most of the booth vendors spoke English as did many of the guest artists (many were from Australia), so I didn’t have a problem. Even buying tickets at the tram stop you can switch to English, and I kept Google Translate handy on my phone for places I needed to know the language.

The guitarist was in front of The Red Dress, and both were beautiful. Haven’t heard about The Red Dress? I hadn’t either until I went to the show’s website before the show and read about it.

The photo on the left was when we first arrived, when the show opened. The photo on the right was taken after lunch. Quilters had arrived! But it wasn’t just quilters: it was embroiderers, sewists, crocheters, purse and bag makers, and I even saw a jewelry booth. Here’s a slide show of the vendors; click to advance the images:

Note: except for a few crowd shots and candids, I received permission to take photographs.

I saw so many beautiful things and purchased a few, here and there. Here’s something I didn’t see: pre-cuts. That whole American-merchandising thing seems to be missing from here as well. The vendors are small, specific, art-driven, and some of the things they sell are kits, new ideas (like the leather handles from Miyako that you can move from bag to bag, instead of having to have one handle per one bag — genius). But unfortunately, because of the tariffs here in the US, it is nearly prohibitive to ship to the US market for many of these vendors, but I can sometimes find them on ETSY or other small marketplaces.

In several places around the show are make-and-take tables. This was the embroidery table. On the left, at the opening; on the right, after lunch. It was popular!

The crochet table, top left. The “Corner for the Bloggers” are the other three photos…and me! It got busier and busier as the day went on. When my husband was tired of following me around, he retreated here.

The crocheter setting up a display. It was fascinating to see. There were four or five booths for those who liked to crochet.

On one side of the Vendors Hall were the “classrooms.” These were surprisingly quiet, and I saw several classes in session.

On the other side of the Vendor Hall were the quilt displays, rooms created out of movable walls, done in brilliant colors. I used my Google Translate on some of the signs. Sometimes I even used my Husband Translate (he speaks French).

This exhibit was Collections, from Hungary. We talked to this quilter, Ildikó Kalocsa, about her work, and thanked her for coming to France. I loved the texture in her work. We also asked her about Hungary’s recent elections, and she said “Oh, we are so happy!” It was evident in her smile.

Slideshow for Inmaculada Gabaldon, from Spain (photos on this post were taken both by my husband and I):

Click to advance the images. She does all her own quilting on a domestic machine, not a long arm. In the photo I took of her, she chose the background, and it was a photo of herself as a child. The last photo is of me in an adjoining “room” looking back toward the main hall, with Inmaculada talking with quilters.

I put up a couple more slideshows on Instagram:

Denim by Elisabeth Dubbelde

She is known for her denim work, as well as recycling to keep the fabrics out of the landfill.

Quilts En Rêve

I’ve followed them on Instagram, as they make beautifully perfect quilts, many by hand. They are interested in reproductions of antique quilts.

Carolyn Konig

Carolyn was a joy to visit with, welcoming and happy to answer questions about her unique approach to doing her reproduction quilts: she actually has the background fabric printed to mimic the spots and bits and discolorations of antique quilts, and uses it when she makes her reproductions. (Carolyn on Instagram) If you go to her website, you can order some.

Finally, it was time to leave, but not before I tried to find Carol Veillon and thank her.

I felt invisible in the quilt world until Carol, in her magazine QuiltMania, published a quilt of mine that was hanging in the Road to California Show, where I first met her. She is kind and charming and encouraged me to continue submitting. I had several more published by her and every time it was like Christmas had come.

I thanked her for this, and for her kindness towards me, and grabbed a quick photo as she was incredibly busy. She is someone who had made a different in our quilting world, for all of us.

We walked back to the tram, and as we rode back to our hotel, were joined by families, strollers, children, mothers, teenagers; it was a far cry from the quiet ride in the morning. I will probably post the quilts I did take photos of here and there as I go forward, but I can’t leave this post without giving you some photos of Nantes.

The old LU biscuit factory, around the corner from the Gare, taken in sunset.

A store selling the town sweets: Les Rigolettes Nantaises. They seem like hard round little candies, but once in your mouth the outer hard shell dissolves and they are chewey and delicious. They come in five traditional flavors: lemon, raspberry, blackcurrant, mandarin, and pineapple.

They come in these charming tins (well, the elephant was a different candy), and I’ve already repurposed one for straight pins.

Joan of Arc is big around here. This statue inside the church is dedicated to her, as she hails from Orléans, which is up the road a bit in the Loire Valley.

The Elephant, one of “Les Machines” on the small island in the Loire River adjacent to the city center. A huge mechanical creation, it moves slowly around as it takes a walk, squirting tourists and children with water. We had a great time seeing this.

A few more sights (click to advance):

And what did I take away from the quilt show?

A book from the SAXE bookseller booth, and some fliers
a preprinted canvas to make a bag (Stenzo Textiles)
sweet mini-quilt with papers and templates (Somerset Designs)
a panel to make a small bag (ABCDaires), a favorite
buttons from Chifonie Studio

My suitcase is compact so while the purchases are small, the memories are huge!

Pour l’Amour du Fils has not yet published their 2027 dates. Here’s a link to the visitor section of their website.

QM published quilts:
Riverside Sawtooth (in QuiltMania)
Elizabeth’s Lollipops (in QuiltMania: a photograph from a quilt show, but I’m counting it!)
Crossroads (in Simply Moderne)
Santa’s Night Ride (in Simply Vintage)

During the pandemic, I agreed to let them share my blocks with readers of the QuiltMania newsletter. The patterns have now come home to stay, and most are free (see tab, above).

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Road to California 2026 • Part II

March 15, 2026March 21, 2026 Elizabeth E.8 Comments

The first post for Road to California 2026 was published previously. A downloadable show guide is here, but they do remove things from their website with frequency, so if you’d like it, get it now. Here we go with more beautiful quilts.

For those who are interested in coming out for Road, their website is here. They’ve already announced dates for 2027: January 20-23, and their website says “Classes begin on Monday, January 18. Preview Night is Tuesday January 19, 2027.” Sign up to on their website to get their announcements as they are good reminders.

This is what we all see when we arrive: the tall atrium filled with hanging quilts, chosen from a local guild.

I’ve had this one on my list of quilts to make like forever. So, not only can we see quilts in the show, we can see them in the sky, in the vendors’ booths, in the hallways…everywhere.

It’s an abundance, so I’m leading with this quilt, Abundance, by Linda Steel, from Australia — a riot of color and shape and a feeling of you-had-to-be-there.

(Click to view any photo, or right-click to see it enlarged in a new tab.

Crocker’s quilt harks back to the fused art quilts of the previous post, but in a dramatically different way.

Grace Crocker: Sasquatch

Red, white and blue and a broken heart.

As always, click to enlarge the smaller images, above.
Mimi Ghauri-Young: Heart. Broken.

Sherry Priest: Single Card Keypunch

This is hand-quilted. Check out the closeup shots, below.

This was inspired by an antique quilt. I’d love to know how long it took her to make this.

Jan Frazer: Tangerine Tango

A very large quilt, and it radiated with energy.

Naomi Otomo: Blessings of the Sun

(In case you didn’t know, I’m writing the maker and the quilt title with every quilt for ease in searching online.)

This was a favorite exhibit, since we travel near, and live not to far from Route 66: The Mother Road. It’s celebrating its 100 years this year. The makers depicted various well-known sites along the road:

Click to enlarge any of them. I’ve put the quilts into a slide show (below) which you can advance by clicking the small arrows on either side.

The first two photos are two of the quilters that made the small quilts, and I’ve included some pictures of how the row of quilts looked.

A couple of years ago we were in Chicago, and took a photo of this sign. If you were like me (of a certain age) you were always piling into the car with your brothers and sisters and parents and driving on your trips (airline travel was too pricey).

My historian sister wrote a book about this, titled “Are We There Yet?” which was an often asked question on these trips.

Right across the street from the Art Institute is where the Mother Road begins, and I have a tote bag to prove I was there, and yes, I was toting it around that day at Road to California. So many roads! (Now I need to go find where the END of Route 66 is!) Okay, back to the quilts.

So…this is happening this year. I recently read that my church is donating 250 semi-trucks full of food for 250 different food banks across the nation, in order to “recognize the freedoms established by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” I feel I can honor that, too, and a couple of posts back, I wrote about what quilt I’m considering making.

So we had a quilt exhibit at Road of quilts all around this theme. I put this one also in a slide show, to make it easier to go through (if it doesn’t work on your phone, maybe head to a regular computer and browser).

I’m impressed that they finished up their quilts so early. I really have to start planning ahead.

I visited YLI threads booth…

…did some shopping (this one from here)…had some lunch (great offerings this year) and then got back to it.

This is an exhibit of Modern Day Heroes, a series of quilts honoring notable figures. Again, to make it easier and less scrolling, here it is in a slideshow:

Quilters: Berene Campbell and various Modern Day Hero quilters, who sent in blocks by the dozens. I headed to their website to read more, and appreciated the detail on President Zelensky’s quilt; the write-up also includes a free pattern for the sunflowers.

Sahara Lion by Lys Axelson, won Outstanding Artistry.

Outstanding Hand Work Award

Sachiko Chiba: To My Father

Another winner was Outstanding Machine Quilting Frame:

(Lighting was tough, but I’m doing my best)

Molly Hamilton-McNally: East Meets West

This won Outstanding Original Design. Her designs are always so happy and they seem to always involve children and dogs.
Hiroko Miyama: My Favorite Things

Glad to finally get her photo!

Best of Show Award
Aki Sakai: Happy Days

The amazing detail in this was a delight, including moving parts, such as doors that open.

(Click to enlarge any photo, or right-click to see it enlarged in a new tab.)

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: Electric Snails #2

Another almanac of quilting stitches for you.

This year’s Cherrywood Fabrics exhibit was outstanding in all ways, from the colors, the quilts and their designs and interpretations of the Abyss.

Slideshow, below:

Almost done, I promise.

One of our local Guilds had a special exhibit with multiple quilts. Shown here is the quilt made for the Modern Quilt Guild’s Community Quilt Challenge, made by the members of the guild, shepherded by Patti Reyes.

Another special exhibit was from Road to California itself.

A row of their annual quilts.

In the early days, Road would have an annual group quilt, made of blocks submitted by those who were interested; we’d get some cuts of the focus fabrics and then mail it back. One year I submitted a block, but the quilt was never made. I always wondered what happened to it.

Found it this year.
I think this is about 20 years old if it is a day, but I can’t really remember. I do know I was in school in my Creative Writing course of study, so of course, I wrote a tiny poem. I also had to use a very interesting focus fabric (!), but it was all the rage then.

The unquilted quilt has obviously been stuffed in a box for many years.

It was great to see these quilts.

And it was great to see the show. I did put some up on Instagram at the time, which you might have seen, but I think over these last two posts I hope you feel like you saw a good overview.

See you next year!

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Road to California Quilt Show 2026 • Part 1

March 8, 2026March 10, 2026 Elizabeth E.13 Comments

The Road to California Quilt Show was held January 20-24, 2026 in Ontario, California — a location about 45 minutes to the east of Los Angeles. It is close to the Ontario California airport, so we attract many attendees from all over California, the Mountain West, and others who may drive or fly in.

I’ve been attending for many of these years, and aside from the blows of Covid-19 in 2021 and 2022, it’s a strong show with many international entries. Road is a juried show, allowing just three entries per person, so those that are accepted have already self-edited their choices. This show also has multiple special exhibits.

I can’t show you all the quilts I saw, nor would you want to sit here and read through that kind of blog post, but I did want to write about some of the ones that caught my eye, although (again), there are many more wonderful quilts here. In the second post, I’ll focus on group exhibits, show you a bit of the flavor and people I met and visited with. Come on out — it’s a wonderful show!

First up are my two quilts: Mercato Square and New York Beauties — for Barbara.

Mercato Square was accepted, and as is the usual with Road, they showed it with all the red and white quilts. (Yes, all the animal quilts are shown together, all the moderns are shown together, and so on. It’s a bit of a visual tic that has been going on for a while, so we just expect it now.) My husband and I went up on Opening Night to see the show, and he was a great help in photographing quilts, and cheering me on (thanks, honey!).

The second quilt accepted was New York Beauties — for Barbara.

It was lovely to see it hanging here! Their title cards:

They omitted the quilter’s name on Mercato Square, so I wrote it on: Jen Boyer. The original posts about these quilts can be found here and here.

I don’t know if you’ve ever entered a quilt show, whether it be nationally ranked (like this one), or a local guild show, but no matter what the show, it’s kind of a big deal, as this is our “art gallery” or “museum” for quilters. So I celebrate all the following quilters and a hearty congratulations to them!

This quilt was my neighbor on the right: a scene from Cuzco, Peru.

(Click to enlarge.) Lynn Jurss: Cuzco Fruit Stand (I’m writing out the maker and title to make it easier for searches.)

And this was my neighbor to the left: a gorgeous Star of Bethlehem.

Jean McElherne: Red Radiance • Quilter: Vicki Ruebel

Stunning thread painting, all the way from Spain.

Isabel Muñoz: Beyond the Seas

I loved how the maker combined an image and appliqué.

Great detail of the shell. This isn’t a huge quilt, but the little details are charming, especially the sea star in his back pocket.

Laura Golden: Ocean Rescue

This was across the way from Mercato Square; I loved it.

Sherry Priest: Core Memory

A beautifully colored Sarah Fielke design.

Renee Miles: Coming Home

I love that we are still seeing quilts made during the Covid experience.

Robbi Eklow: A Bit Garish

You saw some of Vicki Ruebel’s quilting earlier, on the Star of Bethlehem. Here is one of her quilts.

Makers: Vicki Ruebel, with her mother, Judy: The 95

What a gorgeous bouquet of a quilt!

Gareth Griffin: Spring Bouquet
Her quilting was worth studying, and was so detailed.

Here’s another quilt, full of beautiful quilting, which won the Outstanding Machine Quilting (Stationary) Award.

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: Tricuspid Biomorph #1

I’m still trying to get used to digital prints being “quilts” but I’m making progress on accepting tri-layered, quilted rectangles as quilts, no matter how they started. Seeing some of the entries in the Carrefour Patchwork Show in France this past year helped me on this journey.

I noticed, also, how many “layered” quilts there were this year. I’ll be showing more later, but this one is more modern, and is not raw-edge appliqué. Stunning work.

Here’s an almanac of quilt stitches for you.

Sandy Curran: Survivor

Amy does it again, with her beautifully worked miniatures.

Amy Pabst: Pink Lemonade

I’m always curious: when she says they were foundation pieced, does this mean she did it over a fabric or non-woven that stays in, as I would hate to think of her having to take out all those teensy bits of paper. (As always with these smaller gallery images, click to enlarge.)

This was just down a bit from my New York Beauties quilt. I saw Cassandra putting up the blocks on her Instagram feed while she was making it.

Cassandra Beaver: 100 Days of Apple Cores

From apples…to eggs.

Nikki Castro: All My Eggs. Quilter: Isabell Prado

Loved the repetition here, of boys pretending to fly and the quilting.

Katie Henrich: Flight of Wonder

Sacred Threads Quilts

You can read more about Sacred Threads online. Here are a few of the quilts that were in Road this year.

Patricia Caldwell: Connections
(As always on these groups, click to enlarge.)

Living within driving distance of the Manzanar Internment Camp, we took a drive one weekend to visit, gaining an appreciation for what these citizens suffered. If you haven’t had a chance to see one of these camps, I hope you can do so in the future.

Patty Kennedy-Zafred: Tagged

Given that we quilters are so dependent on our eyesight, this quilt’s story was sobering.

Susan Price: Insight

These simple shapes evoke history.

Bonnie Bowman: Striped Stripes

Christine Vinh: A Quiet Oasis

QuiltCon Traveling Exhibit

We had a few quilts from the QuiltCon traveling exhibit here, too.

Lucy Engels: Fugue

Did you see that? HAND-appliquéd circles!

Nora Bauser: Dot Your Eyes

This was from a different exhibit, but for some reason, I only have just this quilt.

Janice Willis: Connecting With Your Roots

Free to Sp%@k Special Exhibit

A very interesting exhibit, but one that had a lot of comments from visitors. I was there on Saturday, shortly after the Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis, and many of the pieces in this exhibit resonated with the visitors.

Kathryn Pellman: The Revolution Kind (2025)

Kathyn Pellman: My Thank You to Hillary Clinton (2017)

I was interested in the choice to use writing to illustrate some points in these free speech pieces. While Pellman could have gone abstract with shapes and colors and design, the very fact that she’s chosen to use speech dovetails with the subjects of her quilts, and also gives a nod to the idea that freedom of speech is protected in our Constitution, although sadly that weekend, we witnessed the betrayal of that freedom.

Kathryn Pellman writes out the First Amendment to the Constitution on this piece. The title is Donald Trump Made In China Owned by Putin (2025).

MartyO: Weight of Letters (2025)

MartyO: Scrubbed

Kelly Hartigan Goldstein: OLD BABY, MAD KING – July 4th (2025)

So much in this exhibit to think about, such as, is a paper “quilt” a quilt as we think about it? I don’t know, but that’s trivial compared to the issue being raised. The fact that it is cut out from a single newspaper is remarkable.

Layered, Collage Quilts

Sandra Mollon: Crossing the Mkuze River
This quilt won the Stevii Graves Memorial Director’s Choice Award.

Sandra Mollon had more than one quilt in this show, and several of her students also had quilts; I liked that all the photographs were attributed. In addition, Road hosted a special exhibit of some of her landscape quilts. They were all so beautifully rendered.

Sandra Mollon: Toroweap Overlook

I’ve always wanted to make one of these, but they look so daunting!

Sandra Mollon: Valley View Yosemite

This holds a special fascination for me, as this valley is where my husband proposed to me.

Sandra Mollon: Smoky Mountain Vista

Sandra Mollon: Boulders at Lower Yosemite Falls

Ricki Selva: Isbjørn

They had lights shining upwards underneath the quilts, so the value on this is slightly changed: the entire quilt was richly hued.

Angie Tustison: Cathedral Trees

Ricki Selva: Emerald Miles

Another amazing quilt by Ricki Selva (and great story).

Mimi Ghauri-Young: Stag’s Leap

The detail in the lower river was quite perfect.

Are your eyes crossing yet? So many beautiful quilts, and I know this has been a long post. Just a few more until next post, when I show just a few more.