B. F.

Bind | Fold products are created by Victoria Pemberton, 

a dyer living and working in Melbourne, Australia.

Gee's Bend Quilts.

"The Quilts of Gee's Bend were created by a group of women who live in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama during the 19th century (when the community was the site of a cotton plantation owned by a Joseph Gee). Currently, more than 50 quilt–makers make up the Gee's Bend Collective..."The compositions of the quilts contrast dramatically with the ordered regularity associated with many styles of Euro-American quilt–making. There's a brilliant, improvisational range of approaches to composition that is more often associated with the inventiveness and power of the leading 20th-century abstract painters than it is with textile-making," writes Alvia Wardlaw, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts." More here. 

First Completed Quilt.

 Super fun creating my first quilt! 

(Special thanks to Patricia of Okan Arts for the technique tips). 

Quilt Inspiration.

Ali Gibbons.

Ali Gibbons is a Chicago-based painter and ceramicist.

She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Meg Callahan

          

"Raised in the great state of Oklahoma, Meg Callahan went on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design where she discovered her interest in the value of the handmade in contemporary life as well as the importance of a freshly sharpened pencil. Her genuine curiosity and passion for making is not only seeded in the decorative arts, but in all things in life. Meg lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island." More here.

Bold Expressions.

Bold Expressions: African American Quilts from the Collection of Corrine Riley at the Bellevue Arts Museum. More info here.

Maura Grace Ambrose.

"Folk Fibers is the creation of Maura Grace Ambrose.  Maura was educated in Textile Design & Fiber Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design.  She devoted a few years to traveling, working with preschools, and organic farms.  Now she is bringing it all together!"   
See more here. 
(found via Bird and Banner).

I Heart Quilts.

Secret Holiday & Co., the collected work of Ashley & Justin Brown Durand located in Western Massachusetts.
(found via all the mountains).

Katherine May

Katherine May has a really interesting and unique work process where "clients are encouraged to supply their own fabrics for quilts, from pre-loved garments to special items which hold memories such as wedding's dresses, children's clothes, grandmother's old clothes and linens" and often she will visit the client's home to have a deeper visual understanding of who they are to make the perfect piece. She also hosts workshops where she teaches the craft of patchwork and quilting, wouldn't this be so fun to attend? See more about her here.

Ulla von Brandenburg.

Ulla von Brandenburg, born in 1974 in Karlsruhe, Germany, lives and works in Paris. These images are from the Wagon Wheel exhibition at the Pilar Corrias in London, 2009-10. "Working within seemingly archaic traditions, von Brandenburg appropriates historical source material and transforms it into the present to tacitly reveal the rules that govern our social reality." See more here.