Author: JP Dawes Artist

Distoriated Picoral took Most Original Design

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WooHoo!!! White River Hope took a first place in it’s category and was awarded the show’s most Original Design out of 400 quilts. This is a cash award so that’s a good thing. I also love that the judge seemed to understand art quilts. I was in the judging room when all the art quilts were judged and I was impressed with her knowledge. For an art quilter, this award really meant more to me than Best of Show would have. However, all my first place winners were in the final cut for Best of Show but it went to a beautiful traditional quilt.

This is the quilt that a scribe/judge at a national show said “distoriated picoral”. That’s where the name of my blog came from. I STILL don’t know what that means or what it referred to. It was also in the Denver National Mancuso show and got only great comments from the judge but no ribbon. It was featured in Machine Quilting Unlimited’s Noteworthy Quilts section in their July issue. So all in all I feel good about this piece and what it accomplished.
Because of my RA, I always get marked off on my FMQ “strive for even stitch length” but that’s okay. I do the best I can and I would never turn one of my pieces over to someone else to complete. My threadwork with all it’s flaws is ME and MINE and is where I am now. It takes me forever to do this kind of piece now and before RA I could have done it in a week.

Hill n Hollow Quilt Show 2009

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Set up took two days and lots of people. Judging 400 quilts with one NQA judge was tiring. The judge was wonderful and all the people who pitched in to get this show on the road were cheerful under some adverse situations that cam up.

Second Place ribbon on the little red bird quilt, the ribbon was almost larger than the quilt. This is appliqued, thread painted and then embellished with beads and hand quilted.
Honorable Mention on the painted whole cloth Orange Hibiscus. This was a Fast Friday Fabric Challenge piece. It was done with a gel glue resist and textile paints. It has embroidered accents.
This was my other Second place ribbon. I almost didn’t enter it since I didn’t feel it was grown up enough to show. Maybe if it does more growing it will be ready to be juried for a larger show. The mums are constructed of a variety of yarns covered with tulle. Second place wasn’t bad for it’s maiden voyage.
This is dye painted and accented with acrylics. It was also a Fast Friday Fabric Challenge piece. It was a study for a finished piece that was in the April 2009 Quilting Arts Magazine’s Rock On Challenge. I was sort of amazed that it took a first place in it’s category.

Another First place ribbon for Oda-Pagoda. This started as a Fast Friday Fabric Challenge and then I kept on taking it to this level. Most people who see it love it. Notice the awful chicken wire behind it? Someone unknown “borrowed” the professional display stands for the small quilts and didn’t return them. We scrambled to find something to display these pieces and this is all we could come up with.
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Day of the Dead Everhart Museum

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These are photos of the Day of the Dead exhibit at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. There was a call for pieces from the Quilt Art List so I sent a letter of inquiry with a jpg. I was pleased that it was accepted for this show. It is now on loan to them until the end of the year. Mine is the second from the left, the little one. It is called Elemental Altar If you are in the area go take a look!