featured quilter: Jo Barry

Isn't this great? It's just such a down home and snuggly quilt. Jo also made a few quilts featuring silks she collected over in Hong Kong...amazing quilts-but, I did not take any photos of those-I think I just preferred to stick to the more tradional ones of hers.



I didn't note the details on this one other than I was enthralled with the tiny hand quilting done on this quilt. I did ask Jo permission to take these photos..and she was happy to say yes.






Ok..down to the last photos of the NW Quilter's Guild show-Jo Barry also belongs to the guild I do and in fact designed our last guild raffle quilt. She is by her own admission: a self taught quilter with a few classes here and there. Her work is best described as traditional-a scrap quilter and usually works on one project at a time until completed. She is a hand quilter-and has entered national and international juried and judged competitions. She does amazing work in my opinion and is a totally delightful person as well.

This quilt is called Square of the Hypotenuse. Jo chose to make it in batiks only, scrap format, no repeats, basic one-patch, and with overlays. Hand pieced and hand quilted, it was juried into Quilt Festival at Houston, 2005.

And so ends the photos of this quilt show...