mkdquilts wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up. Just couldn't believe it was an actual bleed.

Looked at a photo of the quilt that I took at the show and I'm pretty sure there is no bleeding. The majority of the discoloration appears to come from the shadow of the ribbon and I think the rest is due to the fact that the border is sort've pushed back against the drapery. The lighting in that room is just not great for taking photos.

I noticed it, saw that the other sides did not look that way, decided that it must have been a photographic issue- either a reflection from another quilt, or a shadow. the "bleeding" into the body of the quilt was irregular- the quilt is white-nothing on the quilt would bleed blue. however, when processing a photo, sometimes color correction can make the shadows very blue.

It is a breathtaking quilt.

Kathy

Dorene3 - if you're looking to be a quilt judge, you could put this spot-check on your resume! Good eye!

I looked at both of my pictures and the blue was there. I went to the quilts.org site and looked up their picture. The blue was not there (although it is a very dark picture). I have asked Mary Kay Davis to look at her pictures to see what shows up. Good catch.

dorene3 wrote:

Blue wool? The caption just says that she used wool yarn for the trapunto. Did you read about the blue wool somewhere else? I've never heard of such a thing.

I appreciate all of you weighing in....I believe I also read that she used blue wool for her trapunto, and it looks like the heart shaped frowers on the border could have been trapunto. But that doesn't explain why it didn't happen all over the border.
That's another thing I can't understand...why anyone would use blue wool instead of white. Wool is the least colorfast material I bellieve. A conundrum to be sure.

I saw bleeding of some sort on the left side too. I suspect either that picture was after the show or before it was washed for the show. Surely someone who worked for that long and sent a quilt to Houston wouldn't send it with that kind of staining on it.

Oh my, I just noticed it too. Maybe it's just a shadow from something or someone who got caught between the light source and the quilt as the photo was being taken.

WOW!! dorene3, you are right! It really looks like there is some serious bleeding from something, but I'm wondering if it was from something besides the fabrics in the quilt since that is the only place it shows up. How heartbreaking after all that work!

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I did not notice a place to comment on any zoom-in-quilts so I decided to post here.
Does anyone have any feelings about Toshiko Matsuo's 3rd place winning quilt...she spent 1 1/2 years hand quilting it and then it looks like the binding bled a blue color into the quilt edge at one point, or was this just a photographic problem. It's hard for me to understand how it can win a prize with that sort of problem. How sad to spend this much time on it and then have this happen.