Here are some more impressions of the second day of the show. It is really the first official day when anyone can go in, but it was my second day.
Lots of spiral and circular designs.
There were 4 rear ends: one woman, two elephants and a giraffe. I think there were more last year. I wouldn'[t think to put rear ends in a quilt, but it seems to be popular.
After a second look, I decided that the muddy colors are still popular this year,, though the cheerful, happy colors have more of a presence.
People still seem to be working on figuring out how to use the large scale prints (Amy Butler and Heather Bailey, for example).
TFQ pointed out that there is a disparity between the fabrics int he quilts (lots of tone-on-tones and low contrast prints) and the quilts the vendors are selling (lots of large scale and high contrast prints as well as conversationals). We are going to look more carefully at this tomorrow.
Hand-dyed fabric is being used as fabric again rather than the centerpiece of a quilt.
Way too many portraits. Portraits are hard to do and often look distorted because of the quilting. I don’t like the quilt versions, as a general rule, but there were some interesting elements on the non-face portions of the pieces I saw today.
I found the Nosegay and it was very well lit. It would have been perfect place for a nice shot of the whole thing, except for the chain across the front. I also notices that in the quilt show venue, it didn’t look as large as it does at home.
I stood around near the FOTY 2008 quilt and heard people discussing it. Positive comments and I was thrilled when one woman took about 10 details shots of the piece and wanted to see the back. I am really glad a few people liked it.
Debra and I were happy to see less portrait and landscale quilts than usual. Now we know where they are!
I knew I should have gone to Houston this year, Vicki! Hope you took some photos.
Can’t wait to hear more – hope you took photos!
😀 eirdre
Lots of photos, though not as many as last year. Make sure we are Flickr friends as that is where they are posted. I will send you the link, too, but I am not making them public as I have had some complaints about posting people’s quilts publicly.