Penny Sanford Porcelains: When Your Iron REFUSES to Leave a Scorch Mark!

Rhonda Blasingame of Jackson, Mississippi, will tell you that it is anything but easy to make an iron leave a scorch mark on a piece of fabric!

In fact, she tells her audiences the epic saga of striving to make her iron leave a good scorch mark on this art quilt, and she tells it so well that she had a room of almost 200 people chortling! That was at the June Gathering of the Mississippi Quilt Association.

Rhonda is a HOOT! Her art quilts tell a lot about her zest for life...and found objects.

Read through her blog to pick up some of the stories, including how she and a friend jumped out of their vehicle to salvage pieces of a piano that had washed into the middle of the street after Hurricane Katrina.

Many pieces of that piano have shown up in her quilts of the last two years.

After the second photo, you will see the quick snapshots I took of her art quilts as they were draped over a table. (Be aware that the angle of the quilts with relation to the camera affect the accuracy (proportions) of how you are viewing her art in my photos.)

Rhonda has a special passion for music. I read in her blog where she has something like 200 fabrics with a musical theme! WOW!

Hey, Rhonda, please post some photos of your stash on your blog so that I can show Gordon that my little stash is just that.....LITTLE! He asked me recently if I had just about caught up with all the fabric I wanted to buy! ROFLOL!

I was too busy laughing to ask HIM if he had just about caught up with all the computer thingies he wanted to buy! he he he

Note in the two photos of the art quilt "Ebony and Ivory", the one with the hands on the keyboard, the difference in proportions between the photo Rhonda took (first photo) and the photo I took at the June Gathering when the art quilt was draped on a table.

The yellow in the background of my photo is NOT part of the quilt, so you can see the intricacy of the construction sans background material.

Rhonda is particularly generous on her blog to share her creative process with her readers. She shares her thoughts as she works out a new design.

I found it inspiring to read along as she creates a quilt in her mind....and see that quilt come to life as her thoughts become reality in fabric and found objects and embellishments.