The American Folk Art Museum in New York currently has the quilt world oohing and aahing over their show "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts"
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/index.php?p=folk&id=7262
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloan_red_and_white/
If you go to Pat Sloan's blog, (click above), she is going to be doing a challenge later for red and white quilts. Hmmm.... maybe that's the push I need?
Meanwhile, here is a picture of a quilt that started as a red and white. I soon figured out you can't really do a two color bargello. So I decided to use the color wheel instead, but still wanted a predominately red quilt.
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/index.php?p=folk&id=7262
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| Not my quilt! |
There are loads of pictures on the above site, flickr, facebook - all celebrating the uniqueness of the two color quilt.
I've always loved a red and white house quilt, but then again, I like them in blue and white (which I've made and my kid hasn't hung up in his house yet!) too. This show has my design juices wanting to make a red and white quilt - trouble is, which one? I'd like to do a traditional quilt in red and white.http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloan_red_and_white/
If you go to Pat Sloan's blog, (click above), she is going to be doing a challenge later for red and white quilts. Hmmm.... maybe that's the push I need?
Meanwhile, here is a picture of a quilt that started as a red and white. I soon figured out you can't really do a two color bargello. So I decided to use the color wheel instead, but still wanted a predominately red quilt.Eula Lang of Quilting Bits n Pieces (click here) has now quilted this gem from the early 90s. If I can, I'll get a close up of her quilting. Every section is something different.
I'm in the process of sewing the binding now.
It's been a love-hate relationship with this quilt, but since I discovered that the colors go well with my talavera pottery collection, I'm in love again!
I'm in the process of sewing the binding now.
It's been a love-hate relationship with this quilt, but since I discovered that the colors go well with my talavera pottery collection, I'm in love again!
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| Talavera fruit bowl |
2 comments:
Like the look of your blog. I LOVE, Love, Love, red and white quilts. I SO wish I were able to go to that show. For years I lived in NJ, 45 minutes by train from Wall Street. They never did anything great like this back then!
Thank you! I have been blown away by what I've seen posted on this show. The closest I have ever come to anything like this was the Espirit Collection of Amish Quilts.
I love two color quilts.
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