A Time to Dance

The Pacific International Quilt Festival was recently held in Santa Clara, California. This year's show included over 400 quilts and other items on exhibit. We're featuring some of our favorite pieces from the show!

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A Time to Dance, 47 x 47", by Joanne Baeth

Joanne Baeth is a fiber artist driven to replicate the beautiful surroundings of her home in Oregon. She uses fabric, thread, paint, and dyes to add realism to her quilts.

This beautiful original art quilt was exhibited in the Innovative category at PIQF. Joanne explains her inspiration for this piece: "This quilt was inspired by great flocks of Sandhill Cranes that I was fortunate to have observed in the grain field behind my house. Small pieces of painted fabrics were fused to create the dancing cranes."

"As the quilt progressed during the beginning of the Covid Pandemic, painted, beaded, and stitched circles, which in mind represented renewal, became a repeating theme.  My hope was for a time to dance again."

You can read more about Joanne and her work on her profile page at Superior Threads.

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2022 Pacific International Quilt Festival.