They introduced goldfish, that kept coming up dead. Our son and his sweet family bought a home that had a small water feature in the back yard with water lilies. She titled the quilt, “Pond of Death,” and wrote out the story in the text below. What makes this quilt especially memorable for me, is the story behind the subjects and design, and one I could hear Lanette tell over and over again. Look closely at the beetles, and later the goldfish, to see how each one is unique with different patterned-and even colored-fabrics. She took the “similar yet different” approach, which is how this process works best. Lanette understood the collage process right away and created some great bug specimens. Click on these or any photos to see them larger. She got right to work on the beetles first, in photos below. She planned on creating a collage featuring two of my favorite subjects-fish and bugs-in a mandala format. The first class of mine she attended was in July 2016. Lanette is one of a few past Quilt Gallery students that live in Kalispell. Thank you again my students, for writing out your stories and allowing me to share your work. With no further ado, let me present “Quilts from the Quilt Gallery, Part 1” for your enjoyment. A story, simple or complex, can also help with the overall design and fabric selection as well-as you’ll see and read in the finished quilts below. In this past week’s Throw-back Thursday post, I talked about how the “story” behind the choice of subject matter can be helpful in choosing a background for the subject. If anyone would like to submit a fabric collage quilt for inclusion in any future Finish Line post, Tom and I have come up with a simple online form to fill out and submit with the click of a button-complete with instructions on how to submit photos as well. My organizational solution is to split these fabulous finished quilts into two posts-Part 1 and Part 2. Add those dozen original show and share quilts-plus other quilts from Kalispell classes submitted online-and it started making my head spin just to keep them all straight. So I decided to put together a Finish Line post highlighting those dozen or so show and share quilts.īut in the last couple weeks, six (so far) of this year’s students have already finished their collage quilts-and sent photos for a Finish Line post. These things happened again during my two weeks teaching in this June’s Kalispell classes. They may be returning to attend a class again and bring back a finished quilt for show and share, or maybe they live close enough to stop in to say hi-with finished quilt in tow (such as Lanette Cuffe did a year or so ago with her-nearly finished-beetle mandala above). The more times I’ve returned to a particular location to teach, such as the Quilt Gallery in Kalispell, Montana, the more chances that I’ll get to see finished quilts from past students.
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