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Art Quilts

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The Austin Area Quilt Guild hosted their 2014 quilt show this month. I always come away inspired by the wonderful quilts that people make. One nice thing is that I know some of these people. And while I’m off taking blurry, over-exposed photographs of butterflies and spiders, they create beautiful works of art.
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Pat Creswell won First Place in the Art Quilt division with this quilt, Red Tag. She created it in memory of the trees that we are losing due to the drought. The red tag is put on trees that have died and need to be cut down.

An art quilt showing trees that are marked for cutting down, due to the drought

Red Tag by Pat Creswell

A close up of the Red Tag quilt, showing the fabrics and quilting

Beautiful artistry, fabric, quilting

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Dee Merrill created Blue Women.

An art quilt created by Dee Merrill of four women in blue robes walking in the desert.

Blue Women by Dee Merrill

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A close up of the art quilt Blue Women by Dee Merrill, showing the blue robes against the desert sand

Lovely contrasting colors

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This beautiful quilt, Georgia, was created by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert. Georgia was an abandoned cat that Mary Ann and her husband took in.

An art quilt of a cat, quilt created by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert

Georgia by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert

Close up of the art quilt of a cat, Georgia

Georgia close up.

Windmill, Accidentally

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A windmill with purple, blue and lavender skies

I don’t remember it looking that way in person

This is an unaltered photo. Is the sky really that color? No, not even in stormy weather in central Texas. How did it happen? It happened because I was taking photos indoors at B&B Quilting & Gifts and, having just learned how to change the White Balance on my camera, I had it set to Incandescent. And forgot to change it back to Cloudy when I left the shop.

I saw the dark clouds and thought they made a nice contrast background for the windmill. The blue, white, and violet contrast nicely, don’t they? A happy accident.

Fiction Friday: You’re Overreacting

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Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo prompt.
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Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Dawn Q Landau

Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Dawn Q Landau

Sam’s cell phone rang. “Where are you?” Andy asked.

“At the Crystal Ruins,” Sam replied. “I can find the geocache this time, I’m sure of it.”

“Yeah, right. You’re always sure and always wrong. Your geocaching treks usually end in disaster and you’re allergic to practically everything outside. Why are you doing this?”

“It’s fun,” Sam explained. “You’re overreacting.”

“No, I’m not. I read a GPS better than you, with all the times I’ve rescued you.”

As if on cue, Sam has a sneezing attack. Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!

“Uh oh,” said Sam, “I think both my contacts just popped out.”
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To read other stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.