{"id":2502,"date":"2013-08-16T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2013-08-18T06:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T11:13:05","slug":"material-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Material Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so happy with the Sabatini Gallery<\/a>‘s display of the current exhibit of works by the EDGE exhibiting group from the former Kansas Art Quilters organization, that I went back yesterday to get some pictures. It is my understanding that they will be posting the show to their website, so I am only concentrating on my three entries. Here is a long shot showing Bignonia and Spring Encounter.<\/p>\n

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The work is not crowded and the lighting is superb.<\/p>\n

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This photo does not really capture the vivid yellowness of the walls that perfectly compliments the yellow within the work. The lighting throughout enhances the quilting amazingly well.<\/p>\n

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By comparison. the white walls appear rather bland, but the lighting couldn’t be better! Bignonia stands out dark, vivid colors against the light wall.<\/p>\n

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My work is pieced in the old fashioned way, many little pieces of commercially printed or hand dyed fabrics sewn together with quarter inch seam allowances.\u00a0 In the case of Bignonia, I chose to use curved seams to enhance the sinuous qualities of this tropical vining plant but the other two on display here use straight seams, which is easier.\u00a0 This is such a fun process and not as hard as you might think.\u00a0 I will be teaching a five day workshop on designing and piecing your own, in February at Empty Spools<\/a> Seminars in Ca. Sounds like a great place to be in February, especially if, like me, you live where the snow flies!<\/p>\n

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Harrier Hunting is enhanced by the yellow walls as well. Again, the camera is not giving me the true strong yellow and playing around with the settings did not help. These were taken without flash.<\/p>\n

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The yellow in the grassy foreground really pops with that background. The quilting looks wonderful under these lights. Peeking around from the back is a “slice” of Watermelon Summer by Judith Trager and a display of Marcia Derse fabrics in the case.<\/p>\n

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One forgets how important lighting can be as it is usually sadly lacking at most venues, but here, attention to details is important.\u00a0 At 5:30 on a Thursday afternoon there were only a few people in the gallery but the First Friday turnout was good. Hope YOU can make it!.<\/p>\n

This exhibit continues at the Sabatini Gallery, Topeka Public and Shawnee Library, Topeka , KS through Sept 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was so happy with the Sabatini Gallery‘s display of the current exhibit of works by the EDGE exhibiting group from the former Kansas Art Quilters organization, that I went back yesterday to get some pictures. It is my understanding that they will be posting the show to their website, so I am only concentrating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,100,28,190],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-exhibits","tag-fawn","tag-flowers","tag-northern-harrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}