AQSG Star Study Opens In Oregon

Eagle Medallion by Carol Godreau and Maureen Gregoire

49-1/2" square

The traveling exhibit of quilts from the American Quilt Study Group's 2010 quilt study opens at the Latimer Quilt and Textile Center, Tillamook, Oregon on January 3. A selection of the reproduction quilts will be up until February 6, 2011. Every other year members can participate in a themed reproduction project. This year's theme was stars.

Some of the AQSG members interpreted quilts from books. The Eagle Medallion at the top of the page is on the cover of Quilts and Quiltmakers: Covering Connecticut.
 

Silk Star of the Bluegrass by Marti Phelps

35" x 35"

Others went to museums and saw the quilts in person. Marti's inspiration was a quilt in the collection of the National Museum of American History by Mary Norton Hise.

Quilt by Mary Hise Norton,

National Museum of American History,

 Smithsonian Institution

See more about the National Museum of American History's quilt by clicking here:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&gkey=169&objkey=7201

And others looked to quilts in their own collections.

Stars and Shamrocks 2 by Xenia Cord

43" x 49"

Xenia owns the original very odd quilt from the mid-9th century with the lower corners cut out for the bed posts. She did a wonderful job of reproducing it.

The original quilt with blue and buff striped fabric

1830-1860?

Although she said she hated making it, she was glad she did it. This one isn't in the traveling show.

Detail of the original in Xenia's collection

See my blog post on December 6th for more pictures of exhibit quilts:
http://siputflash.blogspot.com/2010/12/aqsg-star-study.html


And click here to see all 39 on the American Quilt Study Group webpage:
http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/qs_star_study01.asp

Sunburst by Janet Locey, quilted by Holly Casey 

35" x 35"

 Janet's inspiration is a 20th-century quilt she saw at the 2009 American Quilt Study Group Seminar. The stars appliqued to stripes is from the collection of  Julie Silber's and Jean Demeter's Quilt Complex.

Here's a photo of it when it was sold at an on-line auction a few years ago.

At the end of February the show will open at the Monroe County Historical Center in Bloomington, Indiana, where it will be up from February 25 to June 5, 2011.



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