Oh, Oh, Quilts!: handquilting

dinsdag 13 augustus 2019

Festival of Quilts (II)

Even now, some two weeks later, my head is still spinning with all I have seen at the Festival of Quilts.

After my rather randomly chosen quilts that caught my eye there in my previous blogpost I would now like to share with you two exhibitions that impressed me.

So I was pleasantly surprised when I walked into this exhibition Paisley Parade by Sandie Lush, a series of handquilted Welsh cot quilts using the paisley quilt pattern.

All small quilts, lovingly and beautifully handquilted:-

As demure and modest as the little quilts in this exhibition were, the large quilts in the next one were spectacular!

The Baltimore Album Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum exhibition!

I went back to this one so many times during my days at the Festival of Quilts, let me show you why:-

For me the star of this exhibition if not the whole show was this one, so many details, so many techniques, so beautiful:-

So much inspiration, don't you think?

I hope you enjoyed this second blogpost of the Festival of Quilts, one more to follow…. please join me again next time.

Phyllis

woensdag 20 februari 2019

January 2019, a finish!

January was a bit of a quiet month, but not by choice.

For the first time in decades and in spite of getting the flu jab every year I fell ill… with the flu. Nasty. Because of the flu and a few snow days I had to cancel a few dates I had with quilt friends, so nothing to write about in that respect but then I thought…. I had not yet posted a quilt I finished a while ago (yes, I do finish something now and then😉 )

So here it is: tadaaaaaahhh! My King George quilt or as I call it: Royal Circles.