Quilting by the Lake

Judy Blaydon was the keynote speaker for the opening of Quilting By the Lake in NY state. While Judy is know for her great quilts she is also one funny lady. Judy gave us a wide repertoire of very funny jokes. When she turned serious we were able to see some of her amazing quilts. Judy starts with a photo paper collage and when she gets the design the way she wants she moves on to portraying the collage using fabrics that read the same as the photos. A little difficult to explain but look one of her books up I'm sure you've seen her work.

Judy explained to us that when she first started quilting she decided to keep a record of how many hours she spent on each quilt. She might have kept track of how many spools of thread she used or how many squares she cut. But in the long run she decided that what made a quilt exciting or have the Ahh! factor was not the hours, thread or how many squares but how it made the viewer feel.

I hope to be able to bring you snippets from QBL this week. My class with Marilyn Belford is portraiture in fabric. If Marilyn and the fellow students agree I will try to show you what we do each day. Stay tuned.