More about SOME GAVE ALL:

the Breaking Traditions Exhibit [With One Voice] is to give a voice to all those who stand up and say "I will make a difference".
I made three other quilts prior to this one. One was two small, and one too large, and none honored a particular person or group...then this one popped into my head at the last minute. It is part of a quilt I have had in my head for a couple of years.
The final quilt also has a dog-tag wrapped around the rifle. I found mini dog-tags on eBay, and wasn't sure they would arrive in time, but they did.

TWO quilts for posting:

SOME GAVE ALL: thank you

for Breaking Traditions: With One Voice
http://www.fibraartysta.com/breakingtraditions.htm

and my 2008 Journal Quilt

The Elements

This year the Journal Quilts in Houston (IQA) were juried. 48 out of 300 were selected.

Of course I am sorry mine was not selected, but it didn't do what I wanted it to.

Each element had a gradation of colors, and I wanted them to move, mingle, and affct the others.

The quilt may not be a loss...I thinking of reworking it, but haven't figured out what to do to it!

The quilt is not a loss: it was fun, I learned and I had to think...

the technique is from Dena Crain's "Darned Quilts" at Quilt University.

http://www.denacrain.com/blog/

http://www.quiltuniversity.com/

Newsworthy quilts

I recieved my grab bag quilt back!
LOVE IT!
Elizabeth Anne Dawson made my quilt.
http://www.elizabethanne.cc
there will be a CD available to view all the quilts....


My quilt Starbirth Starbright was accepted as one of forty finalists in the Sky's the Limit 2008 in Houston!!!!!!!!!!
It was based on a photo on APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070924.html
Thanks to the Spitzer Telescope people for permission to use this photo!

I can't post photos of either quilt; sorry!

ALMOST TIME!

The Grab-bag exchange is coming to a close.

This was the bag of goodies I sent to an unknown art quilter.

My quilt will be headed this way soon!

SEE THE ARTRAGEOUSFIBREART 2007 results:
http://artrageousfibreart.blogspot.com/

IAQ

Instant Art Quilt

Ellen Lindner's on-line (and in person) class.

http://www.adventurequilter.com/(Ellen's website)

Here are two that are almost finished:

FFFC #16 "Fire + ICE"
I haven't done one of these challenges in almost a year.
Fire was a block waiting to be quilted. I left the batting hanging out to symbolize charred ices.
Ice doesn't show up well, it's glittery/icy. I painted mist fuse with pearl-ex paints, added some glitter, fused it to a piece of batk, then quilted with metallic thread. Last I added "cracked ice" to the edge; it's not nearly so green/gold!
OF COURSE, any NCSU Wolfpack fans remember fire + ice as something quit different!
LOL! now there's a quilt!

WOP

WOP= work inprogress

for Ellen Lindner's online class: instant art quilt

http://www.adventurequilter.com/

Stay At Home Challenge

Quiltart participants had a "stay at home challenge" for those of us not going to Houston.

The challenge was to make a Priority Quilt for Alzheimer'sArtQuiltInitiative, using materials available at hand. http://amisimms.com/alartquin.html

Mine is called "feeding frenzy" 9x11.5 made from scraps laying on my cutting table.

Others can be viewed at http://dianedidit.com/stayathome.html.