I went to the MQX show in Manchester NH on Saturday. This lion was my favorite of the show. It was part of the Cherrywood Challenge. (You may have to look at this a moment or two for the colored blocks to form part of the lion's face.)
This was another of my favorites. Generally I feel these kinds of representational quilts are a "misapplication of the medium" (as Gerald Roy says), but this one is really beautiful. It hung perfectly flat, which gained points in my book. This won a pink ribbon (second place) in Pictorial Quilting. This was made by Andrea Brokenshire from Texas.
As soon as I saw this I had to have it. A very bright light with a bendable neck. The thing is so light it weighs next to nothing, and because it's wireless you can use it virtually anywhere. I can already see this is going to help me when I do some hand sewing. It was less than twenty bucks, and you can get it on
Amazon for even less than that.
And I had a chat with the MQX founder and I'll be submitting a proposal to teach a class there next year!
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Exciting news! And I am off to go look at that light . . .
Stand well away, and that lion takes shape. Love the next one, and the light, I have one very similar, but it plugs into power, Bendy stem, touch one tap for bright, again for extra bright, and lastly the top level of brilliant. I use it when the daylight or overhead lighting isn't quite enough, and can bend it to be right by the seam.Wireless is a huge bonus. Congrats on next year's class.
That flower quilt is so good it looks more like a photograph.
I'm usually pretty good at "seeing" things but I absolutely do NOT see the lion. I"ve tried squinting, enlarging the photo to the max, moving far away, etc. but I.do.not.see.it. I "think" I see an eye but maybe that's just wishful thinking.
Moving on. lol
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