Quilting Art – Spike Gillespie’s new book
November 6th, 2009
I’m woefully behind in posting this news, but better late than never, right? This wonderful new book by Spike Gillespie profiles 20 art quilters, detailing their stories and working methods, with beautiful photography and layout. I’m honored to have been chosen to be a part of it. It was also really cool to find out that 2 of my pieces were featured on the cover, along with work by Lisa Call and Margot Lovinger.
Spike traveled around the country to meet the artists in person, and she came to Denver, along with photographer Ori Sofer, to interview me and Lisa for our respective articles. They were lots of fun, with interesting personal stories of their own. Ori took a lot of great pictures of me and my studio, and generously gave me copies of them. The photo I’m using on my About page and for my Facebook profile is one that he took. I like it because it pretty much looks like me but still looks decent, if you know what I mean!
The best part of this book is that it’s not just pages of the artists’ work, but also includes photos from their studios and little blurbs of advice from each one. I had to squirm a little when I saw mine in print, because Spike didn’t clean up my somewhat uncivilized language, but quoted me verbatim. Ahem!
But I couldn’t be more thrilled about being in this book. Here are a couple of spreads from my section:
Quilting Art is available through Amazon or directly through the publisher, Voyageur Press.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Deidre- how awesome, super cool! WOW! I would love to read your quotes, I am sure they were fabulous… how could they not be? Your work is so great. Glad to have a piece in my collection. Just yesterday someone asked if I had done it. But I told them all about you and your photos and fiber art. Anyway… you rock!
November 7th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Deirdre,
Congratulations for being part of a very promising looking book. I think it could be a very desirable xmas present for me… Well done, very well deserved (sorry for my English, I hope you do get the intention/message)
Regina
November 7th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Congrats! This looks like a great book…it’s going on my Christmas list!
November 7th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Wow, this looks like an amazing book. Like Candy, this will be on my Christmas list as well
November 7th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I came across this book a few days ago while procrastinating on Amazon. I saw the cover and immediately recognized not one but two of your quilts–WOW! It’s definitely on my wishlist too.
I don’t know if I missed it, but did you mention the article in Machine Quilting Unlimited November 2009 issue? Great photos of your stuff and page layout too. Congrats!
Jill
November 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Thanks, everyone! It really is a very cool book. I forgot to mention there are some artists in it whose work I hadn’t seen before, but really enjoyed reading about.
November 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Jill, thank you, I haven’t. That’s my next post!
November 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Book depository.com stocks it too. I bought it there after seeing in on Jeanne Williamsons blog and it is really great. Will have to read the text in your spread again to see what you mean by your somewhat unciviliced language, I didn’t notice, but I am dutch and we dutch people are known for our bluntness.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Congratulations on being published. Your work is exceptional and I hope to see it in person someday.