In looking for my Orange Tuesday selection, I came across Stratoz’s photo of a quilt by Annette Bamberger that we saw at the 2009 Pennsylvania Quilt Extravaganza, which truly was an extravaganza of beauty. Quilts spark my creativity with their kinship to mosaic and collage, two of my favorite mediums, and the amazing things that can rise out of fragments, pieces, scraps. Optimism is by the German quilt artist Annette Bamberger, who has a degree in architecture and worked as a designer and drafter, before becoming a quilter. I didn’t used to think of myself as an optimist, but as I’ve healed and grown in my life, I’ve found the seeds of optimism in my life.
NB: As Joules from Lucid Lotus Life noted, the photo by Paul Grecian, Peak Color, would also make an excellent candidate for Orange Tuesdays as well as crazy goodness.
Over at Stratoz:
7 for the Weekend: Celebrating a 2009 Quilt Show
Gorgeous!
It’s beautiful! it hardly looks like a quilt…it’s like a painting.
thank you so much for the visit!
I was able to see that quilt live in person at another quilt show, and her work truly is incredible. I, too, love the medium, and there are many days I’d rather be sitting at my sewing machine than a desk and computer!
That’s cool you got to see this quilt live as well!
Beautimous! And I’d never thought of it, but quilts are like mosaics in fabric. You’re exposing me to beauty AND throwing down some knowledge – loves it!
I am nothing if not a catapulter of knowledge! I’m glad I can do mosaics, because sewing used to make me cry with frustration. . .but I love the handiwork of those who sew.
Truly a beautiful composition, lovely.
I am in awe of the composition too!
beautiful patterns
what a great artwork. i thought it’s a painting 😀