A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Collection. Today it features stunning Modern Quilts from the Linen Works Exhibition by Sarah Hibbert.
Sarah combines hand stitching with linen textural fabric to create her modern artworks. Sarah’s gallery includes a selection of her recent work featured in her book From Collage to Quilt .
Join author and modern quilter Sarah Hibbert as she guides you through the colourful modern quilts in her Exhibition.
Improvisationally pieced, bursting with colour, and unruly in the best of ways, 14 quilts from the Kiracofe collection were selected to go on display at The Festival of Quilts 2022.
In this video Roderick Kiracofe shares these stunning quilts and explains the stories behind the artworks.
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar Book
For over 30 years, collector and author Roderick Kiracofe has played a significant role in shaping the American quilt landscape. His second book, Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar, now in its second edition, celebrates dozens of utterly unique — and gloriously unexpected — quilts from his famed collection.
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the RadarBook is available to purchase via this Amazon link.
Quilt from the Unconventional & Unexpected Too Exhibition
Quilt from the Unconventional & Unexpected Too Exhibition
The old things I found in our basement, the garage, or my grandmother’s home around the corner in a small town in Indiana, delighted me. When I was in high school I started going to auctions in the neighborhood and on farms surrounding my hometown. These objects represented the vestiges of an earlier time. They intrigued me, and I was hooked.
My curiosity about the “unexpected” quilts of the last half of the 20th century led me to eBay and other sources for seeking them out. The quilts that I am most passionate about are pieced, often crudely quilted or tied, and full of printed fabrics. Most importantly, they are the quirky, funky, and soulful expressions from a quilt maker who broke the rules.
My latest piece – a mini artwork called Away from the Chaos – has been chosen by curator Ivonne Fernandez for the ”Miniatur-Ausstellung zum Thema Autismus – Autism” Doll House exhibition at Villa Mosaïk, Steubenstraße 79, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
The artwork
“Children on the autism spectrum often play in an inflexible, rule bound way. The features associated with autism, including cognitive rigidity, pervasive anxiety, and resistance to change.”
For people on the spectrum routine, repetition, and ritual bring order to an otherwise chaotic world.
The colour blue’s association to autism originated with the autism advocacy association known as Autism Speaks. Their “Light it Up Blue” campaign calls for people to wear blue to promote autism awareness. Blue is also the organisation’s primary colour and is associated with a calm feeling and acceptance in an otherwise loud and busy world for people on the spectrum.
Size 11.5 x 11.5cm, perle & embroidery thread, hand embroidered onto vintage cotton cloth.
