DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

I’ve been following the $100,000 Quilting Challenge with interest since I heard about it earlier this year. A bit of background: Quilters enter their quilts in one of ten categories; 40 semi-finalist quilts are published in the $100,000 Quilting Challenge magazine, ten in each of four issues per year. From these 40 semi-finalist quilts, one [...]

The latest issue of American Quilter magazine was in my mailbox a couple of days ago. In it are lovely close-up pictures of the top prize winning quilts from the American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show in April. It’s definitely a page turner, and though I’ve seen other pictures of all of these quilts, it’s great [...]

Just a quick one to let you know that Material Marquetry reached it’s destination safely (and on time!), and will be displayed at the National Quilting Association Quilt Show, Columbus, Ohio, June 7-9! I looked at the calendar and realized that’s this weekend! Time flies, I guess. If you’re in the area or plan to [...]

Remember the artist’s statement for Material Marquetry? Evidently, what I wrote was okay, since I had an email this morning that the quilt has been accepted for the In the American Tradition VI exhibit! I entered a quilt in this exhibit four or five years ago, and it wasn’t accepted, so I’m pretty excited that [...]

I’ve been sitting here for at least an hour, probably much longer than that actually, trying to write an artist’s statement for a quilt I’d like to enter into a juried special exhibit. I’m beginning to think it’s a completely wasted exercise, right down to entering the dang thing to begin with. The quilt in [...]

It’s National Quilting Day on Saturday, March 17th! What will you do to celebrate? Here’s a few ideas: Visit the National Quilting Association website to find out more about National Quilting Day. Visit the Virginia Consortium of Quilters for a list of Games for National Quilting Day (these would be great for a quilt retreat [...]

So, it’s that time again, and this year, it’s the big 4-0 coming up this month. Now, despite the fact that I told DH exactly what I wanted some time ago (it’s a car thing, not a quilt thing, so don’t be surprised when you look at it!), he still looked at me across the [...]