Monday, October 18, 2010

Lucky us!

The speakers at yesterday's CMQG meeting were Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle, the husband and wife team that make up FunQuilts. They have a great philosophy on modern quilting, and brought several quilts from their new book, "Making Quilts Modern," due out next month.






They also brought some old favorites for us to see. To be able to touch these and run our hands over the quilting was an added bonus! Kits for all of the following are available on their website.

"Call Me Crazy"

"Call Me Crazy" back/quilting detail 

"Leaves" 

"Raindrops" up close

These two do a phenomenal collaborative job with color and value and achieving the look of transparency in their pieces, and their quilting really has a great organic feel. If you're not familiar with their work, it's definitely worth checking out!

7 comments:

Dottie's Daughter said...

Nice quilts! Thanks for sharing. Looks like I'm buying another book!

Unknown said...

I just love Weeks and Bill!! Lucky you is right!! I am so looking forward to their book coming out, can't wait!

Sharon said...

Oh, you WERE lucky! To see their quilts (and quilting) up close and personal...how cool. I'm really impressed with the transparency they've achieved in those quilts! Wow. I do admire their work. I'll definitely be checking out their new book!

MerryCrafty said...

Wow. I am drooling over these quilts. I can't wait to take a look at the book. Thanks for sharing these terrific pix.

Anonymous said...

What fabulous quilts..thank you for sharing them with us. Those are just up my street!

Stephanie D said...

Wow, how lucky can you be? I don't have their book, but I've loved what I've seen of their work in magazines!

Marit said...

Thank you for sharing with us - lots of beauties!
; )