Fly me to the moon

detail of Descartes Highlands

Both my quilts, Winterwonderland and Descartes Highlands, Apollo 16, have been juried into Fly Me to the Moon! 

Fly Me to the Moon is An Art Quilt Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Man’s Walk on the Moon. This is a multi-faceted juried exhibition. Pieces selected will travel for the next four years. Venues TBD. Interest has been shown by several large quilt venues. Hopefully the exhibit will also be in museums and galleries and NASA facilities. Most participants are from the United States. International participants are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United Kingdom. 

The organizer Susanne Miller Jones did a lot of research and made a list of desired topics for quilts. This way there is a wide variety of quilts. The collection is made up of about 175 quilts!

My first choice was  Apollo Missions.

detail of Descartes Hihglands

I found a piece of fabric depicting the landing on the moon of Apollo 16. In the end I only used a tiny strip of the fabric. It was enough to imagine the rest of the quilt. The vastness of the universe , the structure of the moon surface.

Descartes Highlands, Apollo 16

My second choice was Romantic Moon. detail of Winterwonderland A sleigh ride in the snow, freezing cold, but soooo romantic. Especially with a full moon. A castle in the background. What more could you wish for? Winterwonderland Fly Me to the Moon Exhibit Schedule as of 4/18/2016 Houston International Quilt Festival, November 3-6, 2016 January 19-22, 2017: Road to California in Ontario, CA (all FMTTM quilts will be shown) Chicago International Quilt Festival in Rosemont, Illinois (54 quilts will be shown) April 6-8, 2017. June 2-4, 2017 Quilters Unlimited of Northern Virginia Chantilly, Virginia May 4-6, 2017: 14th Annual HMQS Home Machine Quilting and Sewing in Salt Lake City, Utah (all FMTTM quilts will be shown) June 15-17, 2017: Sew Original Quilt and Creative Expos in Reno, NV (all FMTTM quilts will be shown) August 17-19 2017 World quilt show New England September 14-17 2017 Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza January, 2018 Dates to be announced: Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show (all FMTTM quilts will be shown) May 11 – 22, 2018 : Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Germany (90 quilts will be exhibited)

ATT Quiltergilde 2015

The exhibition was a great success.
Besides all the lovely quilts of members of the Quiltersgilde, I had 6 of my coats in the show.

here an impression:

Serpent

There are snakes lurking in the grass

Tickled pink

Snowfall

Green

The emperor's garden

I had a great time talking to visitors and explaining about my work.

for pictures of the quilts:

http://www.quiltersgilde.nl/exposities/algemene-tentoonstelling/algemene-tentoonstelling-2015

Over the Rainbow

For this coat I used hand-dyed fabric by Heide Stoll-Weber of www.farbstoff.com for the background. I bought a piece of her sateen once, but that was not enough, so I contacted Heide and asked her to send me more, something that would go with what I already had.

This is the 2015 Hoffman Challenge fabric
www.hoffmanchallenge.com

I used the Hoffman Challenge fabric together with other stripes and checkers and vintage sari fabric to make the top and 4 large butterflies.

I always work on a base fabric, in this case a white batting.

I chose different pieces of the rainbow fabric to fill out the background, as I wanted to work from dark at the bottom to orange and yellow on the top.

After assembling the various parts I quilted the pieces and finished the coat.

The butterflies are flying over the rainbow.

The top of the coat resembles a morphing butterfly ready to follow and fly away

Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow won 1st place Aurifil in the 2015 Hoffman Challenge, USA

Quilt-en-sud 2015

I was invited to send some pieces to Quilt-en-sud in Biarritz for the fashion show this year.

This is my cloak (Not all) Roses are red

Notice the beautiful espadrilles especially made for this occasion

by

http://www.lartdelespadrille.book.fr/    

The second part of the défilé was with clothes made with Guldusi embroideries

see: 

www.guldusi.com

This is my jacket Graffiti made with 5 pieces of Guldusi embroidery complimented with graffiti stitching a la Karlee Porter

http://www.karleeporter.com/

I also took part in an exhibit called La Culotte with embroidered shorts I made about 35 years ago.

you can see more of the fashion show on 

http://www.quiltensud.com/Fashion-Show.html?lang=en

B(l)oeiende Quilts

De tentoonstelling B(l)oeiende quilts in Zeeland bestaat uit 3 onderdelen. 
De wedstrijdquilts van het Quiltersgilde in het Historisch Museum de Bevelanden te Goes en het Fruitteeltmuseum te Kapelle en een zomerexpositie van diverse quilts in de Grote Kerk in Goes.

Donderdag 2 juli was de prijsuitreiking in de grote kerk in Goes.

Met mijn quilt 'Moonlit Orchard'heb ik de eerste prijs gewonnen

hierbij een fotoimpressie van de prijsuitreiking en de opening van de zomerexpositie

Ontvangst door het bestuur van het quiltersgilde en de Directeur van het museum, Hans Oomen

Toespraak van Inge Schoonderwoerd, voorzitter Quiltersgilde

De prijzen werden overhandigd door Loes Meeuwisse, wethouder van cultuur Goes

De winnares van de 3e prijs Riet Deuling

De winnares van de 2e prijs Simone de Haan

De winnares van de 1e prijs Marijke van Welzen

De openingshandeling door Jon Henselman. wethouder van cultuur  Kapelle