Our 10th Anniversary!
For our 10th Anniversary year we chose A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles for our quilt book. This is one of my favorite books of all time and if you haven’t read it yet, you should give it a go. I think you’ll like it! Our quilt exhibit at the Mt Bachelor Quilters’ Guild show a couple of weeks ago looked fantastic and I thought I’d share all the photos here. Each quilt has a full photo, at least one detail plus the maker’s quilt show tag with a short description. Except for mine which didn’t have enough room so I did a separate info sheet with all the details which I’ve copied here.
One thing of note that I didn’t notice until the quilts were displayed all together is that they are predominately shades of grey and blue. It was a complete coincidence that that happened, but it makes for a very cohesive exhibit. There is one other thing to look for, since it’s our 10th anniversary we decided to have everyone somehow represent “10” in their quilts. Some did it more than once, some did it expressly, and for some it’s a little more hidden. See if you can find them all. Enjoy!
Herr Drosselmeyer by Cheryl Chapman
Metropol Hotel by Suzanne Martin
Nevertheless, He Persisted by Jane Davis
A Game of Zut by Kristin Shields
My generic quilt label with a real explanation of my quilt below.
A Game of Zut
Kristin Shields
This quilt was inspired by A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles for the Undercover Quilters Book Club.
This marvelous story of a former aristocrat subjected to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov makes a life for himself despite his constrained circumstances and affects the lives of countless others over the years as the world comes to him.
He and his daughter Sofia develop a game they play each night as they wait for dinner in the hotel restaurant. They call it Zut, so named because, “according to the Count, Zut alors!* was the only appropriate exclamation in the face of defeat.”
“A game of their own invention, Zut’s rules were simple. Player One proposes a category encompassing a specialized subset of phenomena- such as stringed instruments, or famous islands, or winged creatures other than birds. The two players then go back and forth until one of them fails to come up with a fitting example in a suitable interval of time.”
At their final dinner together they play a particularly poignant game of Zut. “Sofia rose from the table to give her father a kiss on the cheek. Then returning to her chair, she leaned back, squinted, and said: ‘Famous threesomes.’ ‘Ha-ha!’ exclaimed the Count.”
*translation: darn, shucks, dang, shoot; pronounced zoot-ahlor*
Fabulous Foursomes by Susan Mondry
The Willowy Woman by Cindy O’Neal
Fantastical by Wanda McGehey
Map of Moscow by Erin Biskup
Secrets Undercover by Martha Sanders
St Basil’s by Betty Gientke
