Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show: Teacher's Tent

The Teacher's Tent at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is one of those 'do not miss!' locations for some truly fabulous quilts.

And 2012 was a 'banner year'! As the name says, it is where all of the quilts made by the various professional quilters..the teachers of the 'Quilter's Affaire' week long series of classes that run the whole week preceding the quilt show are displayed.

And that display is so fun, and so inspirational that it truly makes you wish you could have taken at least one of their classes. Unfortunately, the classes come at premium values..just to get into one requires a combination of applying on the opening day of registration, and picked many, many alternate choices to just get into one of them, much less multiples.

But the next best thing, to individual classes is seeing each of their submitted classes on display i the 'Teachers' Tent."

My overwhelming feeling was that as is evidenced by the quilts at Sisters and most noticeably by the teacher's quilt..the tidal wave of modern, liberated, and most of all 'art' quilts are charging through most of the traditional barriers of the set patterns of scrappy quilts or simple color combos that we have all seen for so many years.

Even the most traditional of quilters are now letting loose with their creative imaginations and entering the brave new world of one of a kind designs and breaking away from the old tried and true quilts, more and more.

The very feeling of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, where anyone can have their quilts shown, their is no overall judging except in select competitions that others have introduced, truly changes our whole view of quilts for the sheer love of making and displaying them.

As this quilt says:

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Teachers from the 2012 Quilter's Affair classes (which preceded the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show) are listed below. Can you even begin to guess which quilter made any of the quilts that I have shown in this post?

Karla Alexander, Salem, OR www.saginawstreetquilts.com Rob Appell, Morro Bay, CA www.robappell.com Alethea Ballard, Walnut Creek, CA www.maverickquilts.com Christine Barnes, Grass Valley, CA www.christinebarnes.com Colleen Blackwood, Pendleton, OR www.laughinglizzies.com Emily Cier, Seattle, WA www.carolinapatchworks.com Alma de la Melena Cox, San Rafael, CA www.almaart.com Rosalie Dace, Durban, South Africa www.rosaliedace.co.za Jackie Erickson, Sisters, OR; Visit the Stitchin’ Post’s blog for August 5, 2010 to “see” Jackie stitchinpostinsisters.typepad.com/ Janet Fogg, Lake Oswego, OR janetfoggquilts.home.comcast.net

Sally Frey, Fortuna, CA; Sally publishes her own patterns under Kenmar Designs Cara Gulati, San Rafael, CA www.doodlepress.com Scott Hansen, Everett, WA www.bluenickelstudios.com Elizabeth Hartman, Hillsboro, OR www.ohfransson.com Karin Hellaby, Suffolk, UK www.karinhellaby.com Ruth Ingham, Sisters, OR is our local quilt appraiser June Jaeger, Prineville, OR www.logcabinquiltworks.com Jan Bressler and Lou Shafer, Philomath, OR www.jannilou.com Judy Johnson, Sunriver, OR www.twomanyquilts.com Lynn Koolish, Berkeley, CA www.lynnkoolish.com Gwen Marston, Beaver Island, MI www.gwenmarston.com

Sue McMahan, Bend, OR teaches regularly at the Stitchin’ Post Jane Hardy Miller, Miami, FL www.frenchbraidquilts.com Vivienne Moore, Salem, OR designs and teaches in the Salem/Portland area Hilde Morin, Portland, OR www.hildemorin.com Tonye Belinda Phillips, Camp Sherman, OR www.tonyebelindaphillips.com Barbara Shapel, Washougal, WA www.barbarashapel.com Sue Spargo,Uniontown, OH www.suespargo.com Lawry Thorn, Sisters, OR; Visit the Stitchin’ Post’s blog entry for November 11, 2009 to “see” Lawry stitchinpostinsisters.typepad.com/ Jean Wells, Sisters, OR www.jeanwellsquilts.com

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