Our own Art Prizes.....

Grand Rapids is now winding down its Art Prize 7.  For those not familiar, Art Prize, allows artists of all types to showcase their creations around Grand Rapids.  This year over 1500 entries in five categories covered our downtown, near downtown area plus the beautiful Meijer Gardens and the newly added Granville Avenue area.  I think, overall, approximately $250,000 or more in prize money is awarded to the top vote getting artist.  Juried artists receive a generous cash award as well.  At Tuesday's GRMQ meeting we had our own art showing of the quilts made by members and guests.

Enjoy!

Two children swinging on a rope into the Ford Museum's pool area....note the flip-flops.

Now ours!

 Lynda P shows us her Row by Row quilt!  Really cute!

 Kathy N shows us another one of her cool modern designs

Lindsey cut the blocks she won to make this interesting and neat quilt.  

 Lyndsay also was practicing her free motion on placemats.

Nancy is keeping the geese flying with this great quilt.  I missed whether is was a kit or scrappy.  Either way it is a masterpiece in my mind....all those points!

 A new Halloween table topper using milder colors than the traditional bold oranges and blacks.

 Kelly is a member of the Modern Beehive hosted by Stitched Studio.  This quilt will be a summer quilt for her bed.  She gave us the gray and the squiggle fabric.  

 Jan created this art quilt.  The quilting is all programmed as were the flowers in the center.

 Marcia, above and below, shows first her block luck.  I think she won these at our meeting a couple months ago.  She mixed them up as they were a bit boring.  I love how she added the horizontal brown bars. 

 Many of us have seen quilts with all this feathering and coloring.  We also were very surprised that Marcia colored the feathers!  I think we need a special Saturday afternoon class teaching us this technique.  Coloring is now the rage for adults....books, special crayons and paints!

 Her quilting on the reverse side, not shown, was beautiful, but the colors did bleed.  

 Adrienne snapped these two photos of my work - in one month - a record for me. The circles were from the Beehive group that many of us belong.

 The above quilt was purchased last June or July for a sew along with the designer Amy Gibson in September, 2014 -offered on Craftsy.  I missed the sew along as I was in Russia most of September...so it took another year for completion.  I did my version of QAYG on the reverse side.

 Becky showed us this quilt as a top several months ago - her buddy Catherine brought it to the meeting as it was fresh off the long arm.  It is so beautiful.  See Catherine's work below.

 I've seen many of Catherine's other beautiful quilts as she, too, is a regular at Attic Window.  Here is an absolute beautiful example of the swirling lonestar that Vicky Stark teaches at the Attic Window. 

In case you never had a formal lesson on squaring fabric or need a refresher the Craftsy blog has this tutorial.  I've been taught that the manufacturer's fold or permanent fold was okay to measure from, however this lesson says otherwise.....watch.

Have a great weekend....I'm heading to Newell, WVA to the Fiestaware factory tent sale.....all that color....yeah!  Check my Instagram account for pictures if curious...GRLady.