Whereas at The Nationwide Quilt Museum not too long ago to show a three-day fish class (extra on that subsequent week) and go to my “Specimens” exhibit of cloth collage quilts, Rebecca Glasby, Director of Studying & Engagement at NQM, recorded a “Go Inform It!” quilt video. “Go Inform It!” is a undertaking organized by Quilt Alliance. It encourages quilters to inform the tales of their quilts in a three-minute video format. On their web site they’ve tons of of recordings already and are including extra on a regular basis.
For my three-minute video I selected to inform the story of my eight-foot tall polar bear “Winfrieda.”
I’ve since remembered that I recorded one other “Go Inform It” video throughout Maine Quilts 2018. This one was about my life-size saltwater crocodile quilt “Crocodylus Smylus.”
The tales captured by “Go Inform It” give voice to quilts that can’t inform their very own tales. Lengthy after we who created or inherited these quilts are gone, video recordings protect their historical past.
Not everybody enjoys being recorded on video—Does my voice actually sound like that? I shouldn’t have worn that outfit!—however I need to encourage those that have a quilt story to inform to go to the Quilt Alliance web site that describes the way to create a “Go Inform It!” video. The rules are commonsensical and don’t require a lot technical gear. There’s additionally a hyperlink to submit your video after you have accomplished your recording.
Thanks Becky, for getting me in entrance of your digital camera to speak about Winfrieda’s story. And right here’s Becky’s “Go Inform It!” story of considered one of her NQM exhibit quilts, “Star Gazing.”
Quilt Tales Assist Collage Development
I discover that, to at least one extent or one other, my quilts normally develop some type of narrative as I work on them, although they usually have full-blown origin tales even earlier than I start the collage. I prefer to analysis my topics each forward of time and as I proceed. The extra I find out about my topic—the extra I perceive it—the extra that information might help me make selections all through the material collage course of. I seize these ideas and progress within the weblog publish class: “Quilt Tales,” which you’ll browse right here.
I encourage my collage college students to think about creating tales for his or her quilts as properly—imagined tales are completely acceptable. If you happen to can inform me the historical past, character, and preferences of your topic, selections on all the things from coloration and cloth choice to composition to backgrounds and binding, will be extra simply guessed at. In any other case a type of alternative paralysis could set in since our choices on design and cloth decisions specifically can usually appear overwhelming.
Specimens at The Nationwide Quilt Museum and their Quilt Tales
The Nationwide Quilt Museum is a really accessible and sizable constructing within the downtown space of Paducah, Kentucky. The gallery area itself accommodates a number of displays, mine is simply one of some displayed at the moment. Come take a stroll with me by means of my Specimens exhibit… and make sure to click on on the smaller gallery photographs to view them bigger.
Within the picture beneath, Winfrieda and I are joined by Meredith Schroeder and her daughter. Meredith is the founding father of the Nationwide Quilt Museum! Thanks, Meredith, for creating such an exquisite establishment and delightful area the place all of us can share the love of quilting.
Winfrieda
Fructos and Dixie Dingo Dreaming
Quilt Tales: “Dixie Dingo Dreaming” (Replace with Slideshow)
Kaloli Moondance and Golden Temple of the Good Women
In Progress: Introducing “Kaloli Moondance”
Quilt Tales: Golden Temple of the Good Women
Earthshine and Gombessa
Crocodylus Smylus and Tickled Pink
Quilt Tales: (Re)Introducing “Crocodylus Smylus”
Polka Dodo, Monarch Maia, and Million to One
