Weekly update, part 2: quilt show

 

 

The Fine Art of Fiber is an annual collaboration of Illinois Quilters, Inc., North Suburban Needlearts Guild, and the Weaver's Guild of the North Shore.  It's held at the Chicago Botanic Garden the first Thursday through Saturday of November.  

A couple of years ago I saw my librarian friend Elisa at the show. This time I emailed her and we arranged to meet up.  She's not a quilter but she appreciates quilting and she likes to shop at the boutique.  We had lunch in the Garden cafe, too. 

We posed with an elaborately-quilted jacket made by Sue Daurio.   

Here is Sue with her AI-assisted self-portrait. (She told AI to create a picture with two cockapoos, a white-haired woman, and quilts.)   She quilted the honeybee made by Kim Berry-Rogers. 

Here are a few of the other quilts in the show. 

Their guild challenge was based on the game of Clue.  

The Explorations in Fiber theme was "wrapped," and included a fabric leaf 'gown,' an apron, a jacket, and more. The black-and-white is "metamorphosis." The maker's partner is a transwoman and the black part is made out of one of the business suits she once wore.  The jacket at the lower left is a photo collage about the maker's mother who chose to raise her five children as a single mother with few resources.  

Outside the exhibit hall roses were still in bloom.  (Lower right are strawflowers.)  

.....and of course I thought about my companion at the show last November....He enjoyed the day out.