AUBURN #- Barbara Caldwell got her idea for a quilt from watching her daughter and granddaughter make blueberry jam one day.
Her quilt depicts the scene, complete with the steaming jam cooking in a pot on the stove.
Caldwell, from Ithaca, was one of about 10 quilt artists from the area who displayed and talked about their quilts at the "Quilting Divas#" trunk show on Sunday at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center.
The event was like "a show-and-tell for quilters,#" said Stephanie Schuster, educational program coordinator at the Schweinfurth.
The artists talked about their quilts and described their inspiration, outlined techniques and told stories about the ideas behind their work. Some of the quilts, like Caldwell#'s, were vignettes; others were more abstract. One artist even brought quilt sculptures.
Caldwell gets her inspiration from events, photos, sketches, poetry, quotations and just about anything she sees or experiences.
"You start looking at lots of things and thinking, 'That would make a lovely quilt,'" she said.
Caldwell began quilting in the '60s and continued throughout the years.
"I always used to have something handy to work on while waiting somewhere #- in a car, on an airplane, at my son#'s soccer matches," Caldwell said, "any place where there was going to be five minutes.#"
The Quilting Divas, based in Ithaca, has about 11 members who meet monthly to share ideas and techniques, critique each other#'s work and keep each other notified about upcoming quilt shows, said Joan Lockburner Deuel, a founding member of the group that began in 2001.
"There were three of us that wanted to have a group that dealt with art quilts,#" she said.
An art quilt is a quilt that#'s an original concept and not copied from other#'s work, Deuel said.
Ariel Alberga-Martin, a retired secretary from Lansingville, said she began quilting when she was a teenager, inspired by her mother, an artist.
"It#'s something I have always, always done,#" she said. "Everything I learned, I learned from my mother and relatives."
Alberga-Martin told about her quilts as she wore a colorful scarf she made from leftover thread.
Caldwell, from Ithaca, was one of about 10 quilt artists from the area who displayed and talked about their quilts at the "Quilting Divas#" trunk show on Sunday at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center.
The event was like "a show-and-tell for quilters,#" said Stephanie Schuster, educational program coordinator at the Schweinfurth.
The artists talked about their quilts and described their inspiration, outlined techniques and told stories about the ideas behind their work. Some of the quilts, like Caldwell#'s, were vignettes; others were more abstract. One artist even brought quilt sculptures.
Caldwell gets her inspiration from events, photos, sketches, poetry, quotations and just about anything she sees or experiences.
"You start looking at lots of things and thinking, 'That would make a lovely quilt,'" she said.
Caldwell began quilting in the '60s and continued throughout the years.
"I always used to have something handy to work on while waiting somewhere #- in a car, on an airplane, at my son#'s soccer matches," Caldwell said, "any place where there was going to be five minutes.#"
The Quilting Divas, based in Ithaca, has about 11 members who meet monthly to share ideas and techniques, critique each other#'s work and keep each other notified about upcoming quilt shows, said Joan Lockburner Deuel, a founding member of the group that began in 2001.
"There were three of us that wanted to have a group that dealt with art quilts,#" she said.
An art quilt is a quilt that#'s an original concept and not copied from other#'s work, Deuel said.
Ariel Alberga-Martin, a retired secretary from Lansingville, said she began quilting when she was a teenager, inspired by her mother, an artist.
"It#'s something I have always, always done,#" she said. "Everything I learned, I learned from my mother and relatives."
Alberga-Martin told about her quilts as she wore a colorful scarf she made from leftover thread.
