Photos from the IQA Festival

November 3, 2005

Someone asked, what was my favorite quilt in the International Quilt Festival (the superbowl of quilts) in Houston last week? It wasn’t hard for me to say - it’s this one called Katrina Blues by Susan Shie that I kept coming back to again and again.

As she painted this quilt, her nanny adverture stories got mixed in with grief and worries about Katrina victims. It’s my favorite because I think it’s great art that is made most like real life - a mixture of charming, beautiful, funky, funny, sad — about mundane things and very important things all at the same time. I wanted to pull up a chair and just sit and read the whole thing, but couldn’t get close enough to read all of Susan’s journal entries.

Perhaps one of my second favorites was this antique quilt from the 1930’s by Annie Stolz from the collection of Joyce Gross. I loved all of Joyce’s collection and her delightful stories about how she acquired each quilt.

You can see more of the quilts that caught my eye, and the stories or statements that accompany them in this photo gallery.

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