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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

IQF Long Beach Quilt Show 2011: Baltimore Album Review II


The IQF Long Beach Show 2011 was a spectacular quilt show with many amazing quilt exhibits.  Of the more traditional quilt exhibits, “Baltimore Album Review II:  Baltimore’s Daughters – Friends Stitch Past to Future” was a spectacular “classic” quilt exhibit.

The collection of 12 quilts in this exhibit, reflecting three decades of Antebellum Baltimore Album Study with Ellie Sienkiewicz,  were made by an amazing group of talented quilters: 
Marie-Anne Coadic, Cynthia Collier, Pat Collins, Joan Dorsay, Patrica Drennan,
Mary Ann Herndon, Cheryl Kerestes, Dawn Licker,Fran Lopes. Melinda Lowy,
Kim McLean, Sandra L. Mollon, Judy Laval Morton, Marjorie Nelson, Adele M. Petty,
Aneda Phillips, Marsha Radtke, Jerre Reese, Honk Sook Ro, June McCauley Ross

I’m happy to share insights with you on a few of the quilts in this exhibit:
 
{above}  Metropolitan Museum Baltimore by Dawn Licker.  Hand appliquéd, machine quilted, hand embroidered, inked.
 
{above} “Let Us Be Friends”, by Baltimore Reunion Seminar at Eddie’s Quilting Bee and others.  Machine quilted by Sue Nichols.  
 
{Above} Happiness is the Journey by 2007 Elly Sienkiewicz Applique’ Academy and others; machine quilted by Susan Mallett with Sue Nichols.  
 
{above} The Pastor’s Attic by Marsha D. Radtke.  Hand appliquéd, hand quilted, embroidered.
 
{above} Happy Hours, Sweetly Spent by Quilting in the Tetons class members and others.  For a complete list of needleartists, please see “Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts”, by Elly Sienkiewicz (2010).





9 comments:

Linda said...

Thank you for sharing these! Wow! So much work! They're beautiful!

Dana Gaffney said...

Wow, those are gorgeous, thank you.

Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...

I'm enjoying all the quilts. Thanks.

Stray Stitches (Linda G) said...

Thanks for sharing those quilts. They were even more beautiful in person. I wanted to take detailed photos but that wasn't allowed :( Gorgeous work in all of them. I could have spent hours just in that section alone.

suemac said...

Such a lot of work went into those quilts. They are beautiful.

Barb said...

What awesome work!

Joanna said...

Those are treasures. So beautiful.

Kim said...

Elly has done so much to bring us the art of the Baltimore Album Quilts. I've made one that I need to finish. And her books are just plain terrific!

thanks for a peek at this fabulous quilts
Happy Sewing

Nanbon44 said...

Those are so beautiful, How I wish I was that talented..