Episode 42 – Quilting Natural Florida
Listen to the podcast of this postToday we talked about my visit to the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Quilting Natural Florida exhibit.
Check out this great picture that Vanessa sent us. Vanessa had 8 dresden plate blocks completed and had to come up with a way to put them all together. Don’t you LOVE what she came up with!
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Florida Museum of Natural History – Quilting Natural Florida
Laura Quinn’s Pelicans by Susan Walen
Happy Together by the Lovin’ Spoonbills – Susan Slaton
Check out how she did the leaves.
Riot of Color by Kathleen Faraone
Sunshine in the Piney Woods by Sandra Pozzetta
Heart of My Community – by Valerie Rosenkrantz
Loved this one – thought it would be a great idea for a quilt-along
Check out the quilting:
Blue Springs by Sandra Pozzetta (I guess I like her work!)
She hide pictures in her quilting
Rosie and Bill by Rebecca Douglas (check out the reflection in the water!)
Cute ones I liked but did not get names or artists.
Celebrating Volunteers by Linda Benton
See the faces of the volunteers in the quilt.
Florida Burning by Pamela T. Zeck
If Jean Claude Quilted by David Strom
Wildflowers of Florida by Alice Greenspan
See all the different techniques she used – needle punch, Hardanger, and quilting!
Ghosts of Autumn in the Hammock by Gloria Craft Comstock
My Florida Oak by Deborah D’Amelio
Tranquility III by Judy Momenzadeh
Florida Swamp by Lynne Capehart
I loved the hand quilting on this with the swirl pattern.
Wakulla Mist by Bunny Hand
Split Oak at the Land Bridge Trail Head by Nancy “Kay” Smith – inspired by a picture she took.
I loved this border and check out the tiny pieces she machine appliqued on
Road 9, Crandall Pasture by Julie Mainor (My favorite!)
Mysterious, Magnificent and Majestic Manatee by Tamara Schultz
Dancers of the Deep by Marilyn Wagner
Path to the Beach by Joan New
Undersea Fantasy by Darby, Tara and Doogan Townsend
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The border in the quilt Split Oak at the Land Bridge Trail Head by Nancy “Kay” Smith was constructed using Seminole style piecing. Those Seminole women were very inventive in the techniques that they developed and we should be looking to them for inspiration for use in piecing borders, sashing, etc.
Hi Brye (and all),
Just kidding!
Just saw that you posted a new podcast and I can’t wait to listen to it! I am on the last podcast I had of yours in my ‘catch-up folder’, so now I want to see a podcast every week!
Thanks, so much for posting all of these photos. What great eye candy!
Jaye
Thanks Sarah for the lovely comment. I just love dresdens and it was made a lot easier and quicker by buying the 1930’s dresdens pre-cut from Keepsake Quilting it really got me a head start to the quilt top. Loved every minute and want to make another, but got plenty other things I think I will do first, I don’t want to do all the same, give myself some variety. Vanessa
I haven’t listened to your podcast yet but couldn’t wait to see your pictures. Because of you I went to this show. I live in NE Louisiana but have a son and family in Bradenton so I decided to plan a trip with a stop in Gainesville. I spent most of the day there, looking at quilts and taking pictures and then went to the Butterfly Rainforest (I bird and observe butterflies in the wild). These exhibits were tailor-made for me!@!
I photographed about 1/2 the quilts. Interesting that we both were impressed with the reflections of the Roseate Spoonbills in the water and with Seminole quilting and the split oak and the unusual border.
thank you for mentioning this show. I’m probably the only one to go because of your information but I enjoyed it so much!
Thanks for the plug, Brye!
Vanessa, your dresden plate is beautiful! I need to get my act together and make one too. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi Brye, missed your podcasts, but so worth the eye candy you have given us today. Thanks for sharing my quilt. I loved making it, now just to find the time to quilt it. The Wildflowers of Florida quilt was magnificent, so many different techniques and a different way to have it all together, just beautiful. So many talented quilters out in our world isn’t there. Vanessa (Aust)
I enjoyed your episode about the Quilting Natural Florida exhibit. I made and quilted the green and yellow Seminole pieced quilt you featured in it. I have never considered myself much of a machine quilter, so your comment about the quilting was appreciated. Maybe I’m better than I think!!