Material Mavens: Wendy's Travel Quilt--Post #2--Road Trip

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Wendy's Travel Quilt--Post #2--Road Trip

I'm sure this seems like a strange vacation block, but to those of us who have traveled around Canada and the entire U.S. for the last 13 years, this was every vacation! Every holiday and tourney weekend was spent in the coldest of ice rinks year round. My youngest son played tier hockey and these were our vacations. We did see some drop dead gorgeous parts of Canada and Alaska, but in the winter you'd just rather be inside the rink. So I decided to ink the back of a giant ice hockey player and thread paint over the ink. This truly was our life and I wouldn't change any of it. Now that this kid is graduated we hope to have a more normal type of vacation. Although now there are the grandkids...

8 comments:

Linda HicksNovember 15, 2012 at 5:18 PM
Wendy, I love it! So creative and clever and beautiful. Makes sense, but oh those hockey rinks are cold!!!
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AliceNovember 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Aha! Now I understand your quilt and am rushing back to look at it with this in mind! Do you want me to put the photo with this explanation? As blog administrator, I THINK that I can do that, but will not do it without your explanation. What a great new member you are; such a clever idea, and so beautifully executed!
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AliceNovember 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM
When I "fixed" Wendy's post by putting explanation and photo together, I left the original one (actually posted for her by Barbara) up, because it is the one with the most comments! Look for "Wendy's Travel Quilt--Post #1--Road Trip" to read more comments. (I don't yet know how to move comments from one post to another! Probably no way to do that.)
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JudyNovember 19, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Story and quilt photo all in one place is nice. Oh the fun we have with computers:) I liked the story and your work is beautiful. Great job!
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SaraNovember 20, 2012 at 8:36 AM
I finally get a few moments to look at all the quilts, so I will start here! I love this quilt. It is so realistic. With the story included, I see that it fits the theme so very well and Isaac wonderful memory record that even can evoke coldM
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Linda HicksNovember 21, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Glad to see this back up. My husband LOVEd this work.
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CarolynNovember 26, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Love your memory quilt of hockey days with your son. Your design and quilting are wonderful! So glad you have joined our MM group!
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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

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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.

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