QSC Expos Quilting, Sewing and Crafts Consumer Shows

Patt Blair
"Winter's Veil"

"Keepers of the Gate"
by
Carolyn Winfield

Displays

Noble Seasons -- WINTER 2012
(Reno Only)

We all seem to carry a mental image of Winter as a blanket of white, devoid of color, much like a blank canvas. These artists have used this canvas to showcase their artistic talents and provide us with their visions of Winter, from the soft silver of moonlight in Winter to the season that begins a new year.

Food for Body and Soul

Theme: Pioneer Cooking; Ethnic Recipes & Customs; Feeding Body & Soul; Passion for Food, Family, Celebrations, Holiday & Traditions; Biblical inspiration for True Bread of Life; Transforming Lives/Communities/World through Giving; Poverty; Feeding Hungry Children; Disaster Relief; Fighting Hunger—Feeding Hope.

Quilts will tour the U.S. for 3 years to provide food, clean water, education, first aid, disaster relief & spiritual hope for starving children & families worldwide. All profits from $100 exhibit rental fees and 1905 Pioneer Cookbook-Food for Body & Soul go to feed starving children.

The Fortune Cookie Challenge

For this challenge The Subterranean Art Quilters were each given a fortune cookie to open and interpret in our own unique way. The only guideline was that the size must be 18"x24" finished and the fortune must be somewhere on the front of the quilt.

In 2007 Sally McKibben started our group with a diverse group of women who explore the realm of art quilts. Our vision is to create a nurturing environment where our members can stretch, learn, and share our work and ideas in a loving and supportive atmosphere. Although we still love and respect everything traditional, we are driven to break out of the box and venture into new territories. We are learning to set our own rules and raise the bar with every challenge.

“GATES”
A Collection of Quilt Art for Exhibit By Quilts on the Wall: Fiber Artists

Gates lead to gardens, dreams, ideas, heaven, and hell, places whimsical or real. A collection of twenty-three quilts from Quilts on the Wall artists explore the idea of a gate's use, each in the artist's own particular idiom of fiber art and personal viewpoint. Embellishments, computer modifications, inks, acrylics, beads, pearls, fusing, cottons, silks, wools, roving, organza, canvas, felt, tulle, metallic threads and paints, discharged and rusted fabrics, screen printing, stencils, stamps, hand and machine piecing and quilting are all represented in this very eclectic display of quilts. www.quiltsonthewall.com

More to Come . . .