This week I finally got round to finishing a few projects. One of them is a quilt for an exhibition in Ledbury at the Weavers Gallery next week. All quilts have the theme ‘Sea Fever’, a poem by John Masefield. I put some pleats in giving the quilt some movement. I also made a quick baby quilt for a friend – I used my new screen with Dutch houses to print some rows on it with white ink. Again the sheep couldn’t keep away – anything to get in the picture!
I also did a workshop for the hexagon quilters near Reading. We made bookcovers or wallhangings and the results were very colourful and inventive. The blue seemed to be the favourite choice of colour for many, which made the pink and greens stand out a bit more.
All the quilts started with a backing fabric with fusible 80/20 Hobbs Heirloom on top and then ripped pieces of fabric in mainly one colour way were ‘composed’ on the top – then ironed to fix most of it. Then we screenprinted using thermofax screens. After lunch the sewing machines came out and a grid was stitched to keep it all in place, before stitching nice threads, bits of dyed scrim, bondawebbing pieces of velvet, gold and silver etc. They are going to be fabulous book covers or a wallhanging. I particularly loved the flying geese – a screen design that has hardly been used, but looks stunning combined with the bull rushes printed around them.
Another reminder for those readers around the Midlands area; we’ve got our exhibition this weekend at Bromsgrove Rugby Club – both Edwina’s Textile Inspirations and my Landscape Explored groups are showing off our work on Friday from 2 – 5 and Saturday from 10 – 4. There are traders, a textile book tombola and Laura Kemshall is demonstrating machine quilting. And if that isn’t enough – the cakes are delicious and all home made! See you there!
Wow you have been extremely busy, – good luck with the exhibition. Can you say a little more about how the geese quilt etc were made?