Genesee Valley Quilt Club May Meeting - Part II -- Beverly Kondolf Trunk Show

It was really a delight to see Beverly's journey from very traditional quilting into art quilting.  She and I joined the quilt club just about the same time and soon were leading up a committee that spent several years documenting the quilts at the Rochester Museum and Science Center.  She credits me with getting her into the art quilt goup which had recently formed (around the year 2000!).  Most of her older quilts were hand quilted and she has done a lot of hand piecing as well and taught it to club members on Saturday.  She mostly does art quilts now using her own hand dyed fabrics.

This is the beginning! 

This was done with blocks from a Suzie Payne workshop -- a lot of us learned piecing from this local lady.  Suzie was the one that encouraged her to join the guild.   

Here she is starting to move toward art quilting with this lovely composition.  I don't remember seeing a lot of these quilts!

 

Really seeing the beginning of transitioning to art quilts here.  The trees were made of some sort of twisted fabric that she hand sewed down.  

This is the back of the following quilt.  I noticed Beverly constructed many of her backs.  She is beginning to use more and more of her hand dyed fabrics and said she mostly uses purchased fabrics for the backs.

Here you can see her movement to more improvisational quilting.  

Using only her hand dyed fabrics here in a piece called Vesseks (I believe).

 

This is actually 3 pieces which are supposed to be hung vertically.  Again, she used her hand dyes.

This was a quilt which was made as a result of our Mola Challenge in our art quilt group.  Many many of us had purchased molas from Priscilla Kibbee and the challenge was to use one as inspiration.  I believe they all hung somewhere but can't remember where.  I also participated in that challenge.

This was also inspired by a mola but was less literal than the last piece.  There is a chicken on the mola and that inspired the chicken tracks across the quilt.

This is the first in a series of quilts Beverly did.  It was also an art quilt group challenge.  We were to create a quilt inspired by the Almighty Dollar.  This was Bev's interpretation of the E on the bill.  I also participated in this challenge and the quilts were hung in the Rochester Public Library.  My quilt and a couple of others were also featured in a coin magazine thanks to my sister!

This is inspired by the previous quilt.  It was supposed to be dark blue and red but her dyeing resulted in a more purple hue.

Leftovers from the preevious quilt!

The next three are also interpretations of the block in different colors and orientations.