MY STARS AND YOYOS
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BY AMY STEWART
WINSOR
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SIZE: 55 inches high, 53
inches wide
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YEAR MADE: 1998
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AWARDS AND HONORS:
Purchased by Karey Bresenhan for the Quilts, Inc. corporate collection, International Quilt Festival of Houston and Chicago.
First Place Theme, MidAtlantic Quilt Festival, 1999
Featured on television, "Quilting with Fons and Porter",
show #109, taped 1999
Second Place, NYQuilts!, 2001- . Mary Beth Goodman,
President of NYQuilts!, dubbed it "the best ever use of
yoyos."
Second Place, Durham-Orange Quilt Guild Show, 2000
Judge's Choice, "Most Innovative", Capital
Quilters Guild Show, 2000
First Place Visible Machine Quilting, NC State Fair, 1998
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FABRICS: Cotton, Soft Touch
batting
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THREADS: Cotton, rayon,
metallic
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EMBELLISHMENTS: 270 yoyos,
beads, sequins, jewelry, buttons, embroidery floss,
braided strips of fabric
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TECHNIQUES: machine piecing,
hand applique, couching, hand quilting, machine quilting,
hand embroidery
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ABOUT THE QUILT
This quilt incorporates all my growth as an artist in the ten
years before 1998. In the previous decade I did traditional
hand-piecing and hand quilting. I started the
hand-appliqued stars in 1994 then learned crooked log cabin
blocks. A yoyo-covered vest made by Nancy R. Brown
exhibited in the 1997 Williamsburg Quilt Festival inspired
the circular yoyo border. I began beading and machine
quilting just five years before making this quilt.
This was my breaking free quilt, where I finally used all the
innovative techniques I had been learning little by little
along with my previous traditional quilting methods. This
quilt opened the door to a new era of my life--filled with
freeform piecing, elaborate machine quilting, and abundant
embellishment.
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