tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post8015184953937127133..comments2024-03-28T03:17:28.911-04:00Comments on Art With a Needle: Form, Not Function -- Best in ShowKathleen Loomishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930922068379938756noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-47931972083475424782020-09-08T00:30:42.740-04:002020-09-08T00:30:42.740-04:00Kathleen. A friend shared your blog with me about...Kathleen. A friend shared your blog with me about the Carnegie exhibition. Thank you for your kind words about my installation piece. <br />I will endeavor to answer some of the questions raised in your blog. <br /><br />These two circa WW2 quilts were made by three women. The youngest, Joan Crone, is now 86, and she sewed these yo-yo’s “to help pass the time during the war” and created the quilt with her mother and grandmother. Her own grandchildren didn’t want these quilts, and after she saw my other work at my solo show at Visions’s Art Museum, she gifted the yo-yo quilts to me with the explicit wish that I would incorporate them into my art, and she is thrilled with the response. <br /><br />Many of the yo-yo’s had to be repaired, and I deconstructed one of the quilts to create the dress. <br /><br />Regarding the issue you raised as to whether or not the yo-yo quilt that serves as the foundation for this piece meets the strict definition of a “quilt,” while, as you know, a traditional quilt has three layers stitched together, with the advent of art quilts many textile museums now accept two layers of a textile held together by stitching as qualifying as a quilt. <br /><br />For readers who may be unfamiliar with what a yo-yo is (known as a "Suffolk puff" in the UK), they are constructed by tightly gathering a running stitch sewn along the folded edge of a small round cloth, then flattened into a circle, with each one held together by stitching. Multiple yo-yos are then sewn together by butting the edges and then stitching them together at numerous points along the flattened edge to create what you see in this gown and quilt. <br /><br />I look forward to reading more of your blog entries.<br />Marty-Ohttp://marty-o.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-65183471808068712462020-08-17T10:19:48.525-04:002020-08-17T10:19:48.525-04:00Oh wow, that is an amazing dress. It is an interes...Oh wow, that is an amazing dress. It is an interesting discussion about whether that could be called a quilt. It reminds me that I have yo-yos I need to stitch together still.Shelina (formerly known as Shasta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03290945204269323129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-85123870881921747992020-08-15T16:16:25.090-04:002020-08-15T16:16:25.090-04:00and
I am so glad you told us about this. Not som...and<br />I am so glad you told us about this. Not something I would come across in my regular reading.......Susie Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05893377527974815997noreply@blogger.com