October GVQC Meeting

It has been a regular frenzy of activity this week getting ready to hang quilts at the Old Forge NY Arts Center Gallery. Our RAFA group has been invited for the second year to have an exhibit up there so 30 quilts were documented, photo'ed and packed. Janet and I first attended the October meeting of the Genessee Valley Quilt Club. Our featured speaker was Mary Diamond who is from the Ithaca area of NY and makes wonderful unique art quilts. (She was in the Iron Quilter competition the week before!)

The above quilt was probably my favorite from "show and tell" as I just loved the colors!

This is Barb Brummond holding a quilt that is very unlike her usual pallette but isn't it nice! I think she said it came as a kit or she never would have done it!

These next three quilts were all the works of Mary Diamond who does a wonderful job of using representational images in a very unique style! She taught a one day class on faces on Friday and is teaching a class on thread painting today.

This quilt, also by Mary, is a three piece quilt and you can see the size!

Had to take a picture of this snowball "I Spy Quilt" as it was really lovely and may become my pattern of choice for baby quilts in the future.

This was a lovely very simple quilt by our master quilter Ann Nash. She said you could put anything together as long as you surrounded it with black sashing!

After our meeting, Janet and I headed to the "north country" hoping to see some autumn foliage along the way (we did).

A good night's sleep in a quaint Adirondack cottage prepared us for getting read to hang the show on Friday morning.