World Quilt show Part 2: a few more of my favorites

In my previous post I put some photos of Japanese quilts at quiltfest. There were a lot more cool ones so I'm doing another post with a few more of my favorites. 

I loved the way this one looked like stained glass. 

This was part of a tribute to the Beetles. It reminded me of a story my dad told me about being at camp only a few miles away from Woodstock. A van of hippies tried to camp out there and the Camp manager had to ask them to leave.

This one popped out at me right away

I had a friend once who told me that she thought of red birds as a sign from God.

 This quilt made me think of her.

I loved the way this one made you feel like you were in the jungle.

I really like green and pink together for some reason.

This one reminded me of the Book of Kells I saw in Dublin this summer.

This was part of an exhibition on the "spice route". I loved the tropical colors and the volcano in the background

This last one was pretty amazing. When you can make something that beautiful with only one color....

Over all I had a great time looking at these quilts. It was weird to be the youngest one there by a long shot. Most of the people were middle aged to elderly women and a few older men. At the same time I don't think quilting is a dying art. I know several young quilters but none of them would have the time or money at this point in their lives to travel to a quilt festival. Serious quilting is probably something most people don't get into until their lives have slowed down.