PICTORIAL MARVELS AT PIQF (Cheri)

I've realized that I usually lead with a group of pictorial quilts when I've been at a big show.

Two reasons:  they are pretty much my favorite, and likely the favorite of readers who aren't quilt addicts.

Here is a detail picture:

Mark grew up with daily views of Mount Lassen:

When I started visiting him and his family, I paid no attention to it.  I guess I was mainly gazing at the wonder that was a young Mark Young:

Okay, I was young when we started dating, but he wasn't this young; I just don't have any pictures from that era on my computer.

It wasn't until Mark's mother was in her last weeks, and I was driving each day in the cold and snow, from his home to where she was in the hospital or rehabilitation, that I realized just how beautiful Mount Lassen really is.

Mark loves photographing Bodie, CA, and it is a favorite subject for California quilters:

I don't generally feature quilts in which thread and fabric are applied to digitally-printed photographs, but I could not resist this one:

The artist's statement and a detail:

This quilt, featuring San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, is just stunning:

Is there any wonder that I want to get to the point that I can spend massive chunks of my waking hours quilting?

Finally, a quilt that uses nontraditional fabric, so effectively: