Feeling a bit wilted (but the gin’n'tonic is slowly reviving...) as we have spent all day exhibiting and demonstrating at the Farnham Maltings Quilters' Sale. In one guise or another, Terry and I have been 'doing' Farnham Maltings for over 10 years. We love meeting old friends, making new ones, looking at all the quilts on display by the various local quilt groups and indulging in a bit of retail therapy. Although this year the latter didn't really happen because we were too busy demonstrating on our InStitches stand!
We had taken our Gelli plates along, so we were busy inking and rollering our way through sheets and sheets of paper. We love this technique, and of course if you can do it on paper, you can do it on fabric!
There wasn’t much time spare to take photographs (memo to self: use your phone camera next time, and blog from the show...) but here are a few of Terry in action:
We had taken our Gelli plates along, so we were busy inking and rollering our way through sheets and sheets of paper. We love this technique, and of course if you can do it on paper, you can do it on fabric!
There wasn’t much time spare to take photographs (memo to self: use your phone camera next time, and blog from the show...) but here are a few of Terry in action:
As I am stepping down as Chair of Village Green Quilters this year, I got to chose two quilts for rosettes. The first one I chose was Starry Sky by Margaret Bradly. It was the back view (which I failed to photograph – sorry!) which first attracted my attention because I do like a bit of ‘back art’. In other words she had incorporated some of the blocks into the backing fabric and made a feature of the reverse instead of ignoring it. So worth doing when it is a quilt to be used, because the back is viewed just as much as the front. Margaret’s colour choice was bold and it looked brilliant against the black background. Not many quilters chose to use black, but I find it does make colours ‘sing out loud’. Her piecing was spot on too and complimented by careful quilting.
The second quilt I chose was Blue Moon made by Louisa Peers. An original design, Louisa has used a combination of hand dyed and indigo fabrics pieces and quilted it in a simple, but very effective way. The ‘blue moon’ was a beautiful flour resist indigo dyed piece of fabric Louisa made on one of our workshops. The quilting was restrained, but beautifully executed; this was my ‘I’d love to take this quilt home’ quilt.
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