Material Mavens: Barbara and Alice Meet in California!

Friday, September 2, 2011

Barbara and Alice Meet in California!

Barbara Friedman and one of her quilts!

Barbara Friedman was gracious enough to drive from San Diego to Newport Beach, to meet and have lunch with me here at my daughter's home. After lunching and visiting, we had a show and tell. Barbara brought a number of her art quilts, which are behind her on the sofa, and more of them are pictured below. She also brought several of her sketch books, which I loved browsing through. I saw the sketch on which this quilt Barbara is holding was based. I must start sketching, though it will be years before I can achieve the lovely little ink and water color sketches that Barbara does! I showed her the few traditional quilts of mine that the family here in California have in their home. Then Barbara and I drove to a yarn store. I thought the yarns were lovely, but I am not a knitter so I'm not as discriminating as is Barbara. She loved a couple of patterns, though, and bought them. The time we spent together sped by for me, and I was sorry to have to say good bye! Here are a few more pictures of this delightful visit between a Maven from Texas and our sole Californian!

A closer look at some of Barbara's art quilts

My grandson Locke wanted to be in one of the pictures!

Barbara and Alice

8 comments:

Linda HicksSeptember 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Oh what fun to see her wonderful sketches and quilts. Lucky you. And how nice Barbara also found a good yarn store. That was a treat as well, I know.
Did she have a suggestion for the binding?
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AndreaSeptember 2, 2011 at 9:30 PM
LOVE Barbara's quilts, did you photograph any of her sketchbook entries?
Looks & sounds like you both had a great time together. I know personally how much fun it is to meet a MM in person!
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AliceSeptember 3, 2011 at 1:31 AM
Mavens, I should have added in the post that Barbara has some lovely quilts that appear in books by teachers she has worked with! One book she recommends highly is called FOCUS ON FEATURES: LIFE-LIKE PORTRAYALS IN APPLIQU; her quilt in this book is breathtaking. I didn't note down the author,but that ought to be easy to find on Amazon with just the title.
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Carolyn HensonSeptember 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM
What BEAUTIFUL work, Barbara. You are an inspiration to the rest of us Mavens. It was serendipitous that I just happened to telephone Alice while she and Barbara were enjoying lunch, so I had a brief visit with Barbara too. Did I say that Alice had called me while Andrea and I were touring Newburyport? So my call to the two of them was a remarkable coincidence - OR was it?. This is so much fun!
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BarbaraSeptember 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Wow, what a day! Thank you, Alice for a wonderful and delicious lunch! Our time together was indeed too short! I am definitely going to plan to go to Houston Quilt Festival next year so I can meet more Mavins.
Carolyn, that was a surprise to get a call while we were having lunch! Have you noticed that you and Andrea were together in Newburyport and Alice and I were in Newport Beach? Another coincidence?
Andrea, you can see my sketches on Flickr.com. It's free to register and my site is BarbaraF2010. I haven't sketched recently but will be taking another sketching class from Jane LaFazio in October to get me started again. Check out Jane's blog Janeville.blogspot.com.
The book that Alice mentioned is by Charlotte Warr Anderson and I am also in her book Faces & Places.
Thanks, everyone for your nice compliments.
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SaraSeptember 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM
What a wonderful visit. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us so we can at least vicariously enjoy the visit - I love your quilts Barbara. Alice, yarn is wonderful for couching onto quilts - not necessary to knit into anything.
Sara
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AndreaSeptember 3, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Thank you for that information Barbara, but had no luck accessing your flickr site ( and I could scream! ). I've been going around in circles with yahoo & flickr for the past 20 minutes and giving up! I LOVE Jane LaFazio's
work and regularly read her blog. Actually found one of her online classes
at Joggles starting in Nov. that I am thinking of signing up for. How great that you can attend her classes in person...SO much better!
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AliceSeptember 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM
Andrea, after seeing Barbara's sketches and learning about those online courses, I am tempted, too! And had I not been in MM and thus met Barbara, I would never have even considered taking such a course! I'd have been most skeptical of making any progress, learning in that way. Not any more! Barbara made me a believer! She is a true inspiration to me, as are all the Mavens I have met through our group, not to mention those I already knew! I am so delighted that this group has gotten off to such a great start. And we've not even posted our first quilts!
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Themes for the Quilts

Below are the themes on which our quilts have been based:

Round One Quilts

9/15/11 Harmony

11/15/15 Surprise

1/15/12 South
3/15/12 Element
5/15/12 Mystery
7/15/12 Daydream
9/15/12 Spiral
11/15/12 Travel
1/15/13 Interwoven
3/15/13 Communication
5/15/13 Canyon

7/15/13 Cell

9/15/13 Green

11/15/13 Comfort

1/15/14 Strong

3/15/14 Translate

5/15/14 Spring

7/15/14 Friendship

Round Two Quilts

10/15/14 Contrast

1/15/15 Modern
4/15/15 Neighbor
7/15/15 Time
10/15/15 Circle(s)
1/15/16 Pun

4/15/16 Doodle

7/15/16 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

10/15/16 Reflection

1/15/17 Boundaries

4/15/17 Quote

7/15/17 Space

10/15/17 Reach

1/15/18 Rock

4/15/18 Blues

THE MATERIAL MAVENS

We are a group of art quilters who come from various parts of the United States, from the East coast and then south to Arkansas and Texas. We were inspired by the original Twelve by Twelve international art quilting group.

Beginning in September, 2011, we started posting our 12"x 12" art quilts, which were based on themes chosen in turn by our members. For Round One, we posted quilts every two months, always on the 15th of the designated months.

Round Two of The Material Mavens began in October, 2014. Some changes were made: quilts were posted every three months, and the quilts could be be either 12"x 12" or rectangular ones measuring 11" x 14", either horizontal or vertical in orientation.

Round Three of The Material Mavens began in July, 2018. Again, changes have been made. Now those members who wish to stay affiliated with the group are free to post quilts every time or every now and then. Two, our blog administrator collected suggested themes from the members who wanted to remain affiliated. These themes were then pulled at random from a "hat," and they were then assigned in order for the posting dates. Since we had 13 members who wanted to remain, we will be posting quilts every 3 months until 2021! This date is significant and appropriate, because 2021 will be the 10th year that our group has been in existence.

MEMBERS REMAINING

1. Alice Baird (Waco, TX) (abaird125@gmail.com)

2. Andrea Willey (MA)
3. Carolyn Henson (TX) (cjhenson214@gmail.com)

5. Gail Bradney (AR)
6. Jane Hartfield (AR) (arkjjhart@mynewroads.com)
7. Judy Steward (TX)
8. Kathy Harte (TX)

9. Karen Pulaski
10. Sara Norris (TX)
11. Tricia Deck (Lincoln, (MA)

12. Teresa Schlabach (AR)

13. Nedra Weaver