I'm glad I made the extra trip yesterday...since Dave is out of town, I had to go home after work and take care of the dog before turning around and going back for the Dallas Quilt Guild meeting (an hour home, but only 30 minutes back....)...and I'm so glad I did - I met up with my fiber arts posse (we managed to score an entire row, so I guess we looked kind of like a gang).
The best part of any of these meetings is the "Bring and Brag" section before the program starts because you get to see what your fellow fiber artists have been up to...
We got to see the three winners of the Covers for Kids - Lu won third (that's the top of her head behind the one on the far right) - Congratulations, Lu!
We got to see the results from a workshop of "new quilters"...some of them had never even sat at a sewing machine before...I think they did a fabulous job!
Someone brought a very old quilt that someone in her family gave her to "practice" her quilting on...she said "I don't think so..." and brought it to share with us just as it is...how fabulous...
Someone else brought a small string quilt made from blocks by her students in a class - and donated it to the Covers for Kids project...
Sara shared her quilt top made from her new fabric line, as well as one of her quilts that will be featured in a new book that will be coming out soon..
But the room was packed because we were all there to hear David Taylor talk about his journey into quilting...he was extremely entertaining and his quilts are obsessively overwhelming (you can see his quilts at
http://www.davidtaylorquilts.com/).
Here he is with his Seasons series..
the leaves? individually cut 1/8" squares...
did I mention obsessive?
One of my favories is his Christmas Chickadee (which you can own for $18,000...)
awesome, huh?
now check out the back...
that's the quilting you are looking at...Can you say OMG?
I had a great time...but I think I'll stick to my abstracts for now.
I was so inspired with some of the techniques I learned yesterday, that I took this 'plain' piece of handdyed material 
and spruced it up to this...
Dave is having a good birthday - a personal chocolate cake, ice cream and fresh berries - followed by an afternoon of BBC's "Playing Shakespeare" - a wonderful series of Master classes with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company (including Patrick Stewart, long before ST days; David Suchet, long before his stint as a detective; and Judy Dench ).
Someone brought a very old quilt that someone in her family gave her to "practice" her quilting on...she said "I don't think so..." and brought it to share with us just as it is...how fabulous...
Someone else brought a small string quilt made from blocks by her students in a class - and donated it to the Covers for Kids project...
