Not the same as being there, but for people who can't be there at all it is a real treat. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video and saying just the right amount for each quilt. You and Paul are a fabulous team, as usual.
I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos from QuiltCon. Very well done. I am so happy for you that your quilt was accepted. That in and of itself is an honor when you see all the quilts from all over the world. Thank you so much for taking us along!
Thank you for acknowledging the controversy and conversation around the "political" quilts. I believe it's an important conversation to have. Art is often political or controversial in some way. Art often can speak and communicate better or from a different perspective than words. Art is the artist's language and method of processing the world. That doesn't mean I always like what art has to say or that I'm comfortable with it. The Best in Show quilt by Ginny Robinson has another side and the quilting itself completes the story she's telling and speaking to. Uncomfortable and powerful. Many of Jacquie Gering's quilts would be considered "political". The Uvalde, Texas quilt left me ugly crying in front of it for several minutes. I have a close connection to the place and the people there. Two kind and gentle women stood with me and handed me tissues. The next day one of them said to me, "Watching you cry made me realize those quilts aren't talking about issues. They're talking about people." Yes, indeed. "Political" is at it's heart about people.
yes, well put. I went to search for the reverse image on that quilt and when I saw it and realized what it was conveying, tears came to my eyes. Thanks for speaking about political statements in art but also, thanks for sending me to see the complete message of that quilt. I love and value the comment from those women: "Watching you cry made me realize those quilts aren't talking about issues. They're talking about people."
I saw the best in show quilt from behind first - the huge red gun - and much later saw the front. It was emotionally intense when I realized it was the same quilt! As a mom of 2 elementary aged kids, this quilt hit a little too close to home for me.
I’ve enjoyed all of your Quilt Con videos, Cathy! Thanks for sharing. I hope to attend next year since it will be closer to where I live in the West. Hope to see you there too!
I thoroughly enjoyed viewing the quilts through your eyes. I always considered myself a traditionalist in my quilting taste, but honestly, I enjoy these beautiful, contemporary masterpieces.
I visited Candy Pop by Kelly Spell multiple times before I realized that there is ONE long curved piece of fabric that moves around each of those circles, down the left column, up the middle and then down the right column. Amazing skill with curved cutting and seaming! Also, I heard Jacquie Gering say to a small group of us viewing her quilts that she often uses a different color of binding on the corner of a quilt so the viewer's eye moves around the quilt and she oftten directs those eyes with the binding. I've done the same for years, but never with that deep thought of directing the viewer's eyes. I'll think about that now!
I saw that, too, Sister---and only after looking at it for a long time! That red binding caught my eye and so her strategy worked!! 🤓🤩😍 Oh and for the record, it was Lotta Jansdotter (not Marimekko) that it reminded me of!
I am a great admirer of Jacquie Gering. I have tried free motion quilting and just didn't enjoy it so her walking foot quilting books have been immensely useful and inspirational.
I was fortunate enough to take a walking foot course from Jacquie during a lockdown. It kept me sane(ish) to focus on something outside of myself. She is an AMAZING teacher. If you ever get a chance, run don’t walk! Thanks for your QuiltCon series Cathy! (And Paul - of course). XOX
Thank you so much for sharing these amazing quilts! I know you must have had an AMAZING time and now all excited about new project possibilities! Can't wait to see what happens next💕. Have a wonderful day☺️
Rebecca, it was wonderful and exhausting! And yes, my cup is now full to the brim with ideas and inspiration! ❤️ Thank you so much! (and if this is the Rebecca that I met at the show, it was nice to meet you!)
Thanks for sharing. I especially liked the Jacqueline Goering quilts. I have both of the WALK books and have been working on incorporating the designs as I try to move forward with my quilting. My quilts do not begin to look like hers! HaHa... maybe some day.😊😊
What a wonderful viewing. Thank you Cathy. It is interesting that I can LOVE one Gering quilt, and 'not so much another - all from one artist. That teaches me to explore more perhaps. But I can't put out that volume!
Abigail, right?!? And also that art is subjective and that Jacquie has a really big artistic range (which I think of as an attribute not a flaw!) I wish I had that many quilts to hang in a show! ❤️
Thank you both for the in depth view into Jacquie’s quilts. I’m glad you had a lot to say. If QuiltCon moves west I am hoping to make it. I’m in Alaska so, yeah.
Anechoic: free from echoes. I think the patches resemble the 3D cones of foam that line some anechoic chambers to reduce (or eliminate) any echo effect. (See "Anechoic Test Lab" for an example). We have one of these chambers in my city although it doesn't use the cone shaped foam. This is a kind of brilliant interpretation of the chamber foam. I'm curious if the chambers inspired the quilt or if her doodles reminded her of the chambers' foam shapes. (Word Nerd! I was compelled to look it up.)
