I heard about this fascinating quilt show from my friend Sue, who has a family tie to the family that owns the RH Ballard Gallery in Washington, VA...paintings of chairs by Robert Ballard, which inspired his quiltmaker daughter Alethea Ballard to begin her own series of quilts of chairs. Her approach to quilting is unconventional, painterly, exuberant, and fun. C&T Publishing have actually just come out with a book of her chair quilt patterns (i'm waiting for my copy to arrive). Here's the postcard that the gallery sent out to invite people to the show, plus a special handmade, chair-shaped sugar cookie that was one of the goodies served at the show's opening.
I wasn't able to attend the opening but went the next day and spent a couple of delightful hours talking to Alethea, getting a great running narration about each of her quilts. I'm looking forward to getting my book next week!
Alethea stopped in the store before her opening...she is so much fun, then I ran into her at Quilt Market....I glad you got to meet her.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting quilts!
ReplyDeleteWe hope you had a wonderful time and that your book came in soon so you could start your quilting. Thanks for the share. Have a great day.
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