Gallery of Magical Quilts
Room 7
Gallery of Magical Quilts
Room 7 |
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Dance Doctor Carlene has been a quiltmaker for over seventeen years and has recently set up shop on the web. In addition to quilts, she makes hand-dyed cotton. Carlene says: "All I knew when I started this piece was that I wanted to make a spiral. I simply chose two pieces of fabric to begin, and started in the center. I let the piece give me ideas as I went along...serendipity and I were collaborators here." |
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Early Snow Sylvia was born and educated in Switzerland and made her first quilt in 1975 to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States. She has exhibited on four continents, appeared in numerous magazines, and lectured in the US and Europe. Sylvia says: "Light and shadows in a dappled woods is the effect I wanted in this quilt." |
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Lana's Prayer Teresa believes that anything you draw you can create in fabric. This quilt took Second Best in Color at PIQF in 1997. Teresa says: "Our relationships flow as do the winds and the seas, the currents forming natural patterns of whirls and eddies. During a time when my art had become lost to me, my dear friend Lana saw that I was adrift and prayed that I would rediscover my creativity. Shortly thereafter the design for this quilt came to me, and I named it 'Lana's Prayer' in honor of her faith." |
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Tying Clooties Linda says: "A hair greys. A thought occurs. A dream is dreamed. A wish is made. A prayer is prayed. An offering, a clootie, is tied in the sacred tree at the holy well. Who am I? I was nothing. I was I. I am I. I will be I. And then I won't be. What will remain?" |
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South Hall at UC Berkeley Carol is married to the founding dean of the newest school at UC Berkeley, which is housed in South Hall, the oldest building on campus. This quilt hangs in her husband's office. Magically, even though I've spent over twenty years at UCB, I first encountered Carol's quilt on the Internet! Carol says: "The quilt shows the old building barely able to contain the astonishing new world of computer age information and technology going on inside. I do pictorial quilts from my own original drawings, mostly in hand applique. While I do the mechanical work of the applique, which takes many, many hours, I listen to books on tape. Altogether, it's a wonderfully pleasureable and satisfying occupation." |
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A Moment in Time Sandi is best known for the vibrant, carefree use of color and lively movement in her quilts. Her pieces are exhibited frequently, and currently hang in many corporate art collections. She has taught workshops across the country, encourging students to experiment and develop original designs. Sandi says: "Although I was doing a quilt about children, I didn't want it to be a children's quilt, so I tried to keep the design elements fairly sophisticated. The background is screen-printed and painted using fabric paints, with a cream colored netting put over it to soften the harshness of the stark white fabric I used. I wanted this quilt to reflect the innocence of childhood, soon to be lost." |
