Turkey Tracks: May 6, 2010
Jeanne Marie Robinson
Rest in Peace
A friend and I drove to a gallery in Topsham last week to pay homage to a selection of Jeanne Marie Robinson’s quilts. Jeanne Marie, who died very recently of cancer, was an amazing quilter. She created whole worlds out of cloth. She loved applique, but she combined applique with traditional piecing and with art quilt techniques. She had a unique vision that will be sorely missed by anyone who has ever seen one of her quilts.
Here are two quilts that hung in this memorial show:
Jeanne Marie was also very generous with her work. For the past three or four years she donated one of her pieces for the Coastal Quilters yearly auction fundraiser. Of course, her donations always brought in the most money for any one single item.
In her youth, she was a nationally known ballet artist. It was only in her later years that she turned her talents toward fiber art. Boy are we who could see her ongoing work glad that she did!
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