Quilting Today

Last year unexpectedly I attended the Gilroy quilting festival and was expecting to find quaint "Americana" style patterns with dull fabrics. What I found however suprised me. Bright modern patterns and origional designs filled the festival. Quilts featuring abstract art and portraits hung from their wooden frames and and hosted impressive attention to detail while maintaining overwhelming aestetic beauty. The quilters I met were very informative and also impressed with the 1934 Lone Star quilt I brought to show (see pitcure). Quilting judges told me the Lone Star pattern was not only a difficult pattern but, if done well, was usually a woman's "magnum opus," and accomplished in the final years of her life. "If it were a piece of furniture, of such quality," one of the judges told me, "it would be worth $30,000. However, since it is a quilt and made by a woman, it would only sell for about $300 on eBay." Needless to say, I'm keeping the quilt.