GVQC - A Visit from Aafke Steenhuis

This is a sneak peak at our raffle quilt for this year. It hasn't been quilted yet but isn't it stunning! Priscilla did the Seminole piecing for the border of the quilt.

We are having a perfectly lovely sunny day here in upstate New York. We missed yet another of those pesky storm systems which is just fine with me!

This was my first time back at GVQC in a couple of months so had some catching up to do. Our speaker this month was Aafke Steenhuis from Ithaca NY. I had the nice opportunity to spend dinner with her and a small group last night and then see her talk today. She is just a lovely woman who went from very traditional quiltmaking to art quilts in a very short period of time. She is originally from the Netherlands but has lived here in the US since the 70s. She has a wicked sense of humor and has lived a lot of life (among other things she had 9 children).

During Show and Tell, Claire Welch showed her beautiful quilt made with blocks following Paula Nadelstern's techniques -- just a stunning quilt!

And of course the second quilt is an "I Spy" like the ones I did last spring. They are really fun to make and are very showy!

This was a top completed from a class taken with Pat Pauly -- lovely colors and a very nice quilt top!


This was a composition using gradation hand dyed fabric -- really, really nice -- I don't know whether this was an original design or not but beautifully executed!

I also took a picture of my piece from the Holy Mola challenge. This was the completed quilt which is all pieced and then machine quilted. The mola that inspired the piece is underneath it.

Aafke (our featured speaker )brought lots of quilts with her to share. She loves the orange and purple pallette and I notice she sneaks some green in as well. That is my favored palette as well! This was one of her "Large Cell" quilts done as therapy for herself after having significant surgeries for a Large Cell tumor on her wrist.

This was a very large three panel quilt also part of the "Large Cell" series.

This was a very contemporary arrangement of a lot of random blocks and scraps that Aafke had. This is only a small section of the quite large quilt -- would be a good thing to work with all those strips that I did!

Okay, had to sneak in one duck! The sun was brightly shining so of course most of the ducks made themselves scarce so there were only a few Oldsquaws and Greater Scaup hanging out today. Can't seem to get the conditions and the ducks all at the same time!!