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The Frayed Edges Artists’ Reception, Camden Public Library
On a glorious Saturday afternoon in Maine, we had our artists’ reception at the Camden Public Library. The room was colorful, even more so because of the gorgeous flowers Kate brought, some from her garden (sigh…someday I will have a garden that has SUN).
Kate also had the brilliant idea to put out some “Quilt Show” signs to alert passersby, and it worked! Unfortunately, I didn’t get pics of those, but I can tell you Kate made up the “flags” at home, then she and Kathy cut out the fused letters and ironed them on while camping at Mount Battie here in Camden, using the electricity in the bathroom. Now that’s dedication!
Just above, you can see Hannah, her oldest daughter, Kathy, a friend of Kathy’s and the “kitchen” end of the room (the kitchenette is behind the folding doors), with our refreshments table in the center with Kate’s beautiful batik cloth. Our grid piece is on the right.
Here is my dear friend Betty Johnson who came with her daughter Karen Martin. Both are mainstays in the Coastal Quilters, and I’m so glad they are both there. Betty is an amazing art quilter with an unerring eye, and Karen does the most perfect piecing I think I’ve ever seen…lots of detailed paper piecing too! Gorgeous! Betty is looking at our 5×5 / Five Artists, Five Views piece where each of us interpreted the same photo (each column), and where each row shows a single artist’s variation on the five photos. 
Betty also surprised me with this little “Inchie and three quarters”… I had bid on her small art quilt at our Coastal Quilters fundraiser but got outbid, but she remembered and made me a “congrats” on the show and my Quilting Arts article with her bunny fabric (I have a thing for bunnies). I may make this into a pin or necklace!
Here’s a closer look at the items in the display case and above it (from left to right on the wall, Kathy’s birches, Sarah’s Autumn on the Village Green, and Kate’s interpretation of http://www.esteritaaustin.com/s pattern of a stone-flanked doorway):
Here is another view, this time of the corner opposite the kitchenette, with my Koi on the far wall (the wall you see as you look through the doors into the Picker Room) and Deborah’s “Anthony Avenue” anchoring the wall on the right.
I am still trying to catch up on lost sleep from all those hospital nights, but life is good. The show was fun, there are many wonderful comments in our guest show book (another one of Kate’s grand ideas!), Joshua is eating more, and getting more like his usual (sometimes teen-attitude) self, which means he is healing, his skin grafts look better (ok, less bad!) every day, and nighttime temps are ever-so-slightly beginning to drop. The first green acorns are already dotting the driveway, and school starts in 24 days. Not that I’m counting… GRIN! Now, to get to work on the book….
August 12th, 2007 at 11:48 am
SB:
It looks so wonderful – what a beautiful job you did hanging the show – amidst all of the upheaval that was going on at the same time. You rock !
Glad life is beginning to settle a bit at last.
August 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
That’s the sort of show I love: Light, airy room, plenty of space, and wonderful variety of eye candy.
If anybody has found a way of covering a few thousand miles in seconds, please, let me know, so I can make it to lovely events like this.
Lorchen
August 14th, 2007 at 11:33 am
What fun! Having a show with friends! Congrats!
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