“Quilting is a very forgiving medium,” says Humboldt fiber artist Angie Tustison. “When I was starting out, my designs didn’t have to be perfect to look nice, whereas the mistakes I made in my drawings or paintings tended to stand out.” She also loved the colors and textures of the range of fabrics available to […]
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The Surprise of Katie Pasquini Masopust’s Capriccio
Now through Jan. 22 at The Morris Graves Museum of Art, Katie Pasquini Masopust displays her mastery of quilting and painting. Infusing her foundation in painting with her expertise in quilting, Pasquini Masopust invites spectators to see through a new and unique lens that at once comforts and stretches the imagination in her latest exhibition […]
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Humboldt Quilters Dress Capitol Christmas Trees
It’s not even officially fall and Humboldt quilters have already finished their holiday decorations. Well, for the nations’s Capitol, anyway. Since the Capitol Christmas tree (named Sugar Bear, by the way) and dozens of other smaller trees for congressional offices were selected from the Six Rivers National Forest, the quilted tree skirts are coming from […]
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Respect the Quilt
Quilters, says Susie Freese, are like Rodney Dangerfield. “We get no respect,” she said in a telephone interview a month before the Heart of the Redwoods Quilt Show. “People don’t really understand what we do, and they don’t know how to value it.” Freese and the 175-member Redwood Empire Quilters Guild to which she belongs hope […]