Above: By Patricia Harmon
What an adorable house! Who wouldn't want to open that door and move in?!
Above: By Rosemarie Pitka
Nicole notes:I'm a huge admirer of Laurel Burch's art and life. I was extremely moved to see my fabric used with Laurel's cats. Thank you Rosemarie!
Ruby Street Quiltworks in Washington state, USA held a Mardi Gras themed contest using Nicole's Face The Music collection! ***All 39 pieces are below.***
Whether you know her name or not, there's a good chance you'd recognize Andrea's work. We truly believe that without her culturally significant art, most people would not automatically associate Mardi Gras with women's faces to begin with.
While Nicole didn't design this collection with the Margi Gras or Andrea's art in mind, (she drew much of it during college nearly 10 years before it was made into fabric), Andrea's work might have been an indirect reason why this fabric was chosen for the contest, and that deserves to be acknowledged.
The task was to make a quilt block using one rectangle from the black & white Face The Music panel fabric. We couldn't believe the extraordinary creativity out there! Each entry is beautiful. The quilt blocks were assembled into one big quilt and donated to charity efforts in Haiti. Thank you to Ruby Street and everyone who participated!
Also- special thanks to artist Andrea Mistretta. For 30 years now, she set the cultural and visual tone for the New Orleans Mardi Gras by designing beautiful posters of elegant women's faces.
Above: By Kitty Johnson
Above: By Germaine Hough
Above: By Laura Piliaris
Above: By Susan Camp
Above: By Brenda Lewis
Above: By Pam Sullivan
Above: By Judit Gebhardt
Above: By Anna Easton
Above: By Molly Johnson
Above: By Kris Bowen
Above: By Jamie Chiara
Above: By Shelly Haynie
Above: By Marla Vinzant
Above: By Margaret McGill
Above: By Sheree Neumeier
Above: By Lisa Sharma
Above: By Loris Webb
Above: By Gale Davis
Thank you again to Ruby Street Quiltworks for creating this contest and charity event, and to all of the genius quilters who participated! Your work is inspiring.
Above: By Marjorie Smith
Above: By Susan Drummond
Above: By Marcy Maez
Above: By Jenny Sheehan
Above: By Barb Ridgeway
Above: By Pat Zarp
Above: By Bunny Hyink
Above: By Virginia Meyer
Above: By Cindy Williams
Above: By Phil Lowe
Above: By Nancy Currington
Above: By Lavonda Phillips
Above: By Marena Kerr
Above: By Jayna Williams
Above: By Linda Becker
Above: By Suzette Sims
Above: By Kristin Jones
Above: By Peggy Cluck
Above: By Barb Johnson