My latest embellished lino printing project - a jug of flowers ......... or rather, 3 jugs as they look so good together.
Every print turned out a slightly different colour using system 3 acrylics mixed with the block printing medium. I've printed on to calico.
This is what one of the blue prints looked like after backing with thin wadding and machine quilting with grey cotton. I quilted just outside the blue of each petal to give them a cream border. Next to it is the finished picture after using Steam-a-Seam 2 to apply fabric to each petal, centre, leaf and a strip across the jug; and embellishing by hand.
The green jug is sprinkled with red lazy daisy flowers
And the flowers in the pink jug have red tips and centres which really makes them stand out.
I bordered each print with two similar colours and mitred corners, hoping that this would make them look slightly recessed, and finished with a wider border in a similar neutral colour.
Each print measures just 4" x 6" and the hanging measures 16" x 9".
I can't quite believe how enjoyable this is to do!
Happy Sewing - Anita x
We had a real treat at Flowerpatch Quilter's recent meeting with a slideshow of Melody and Dy's trip to Prague last Springtime. They stayed at a hotel in the beautiful old part of the city and enjoyed river trips and exploring. We loved their photos of the old houses built into the castle walls, many of which are now museums. But, of course, the highlight of their trip was a visit to the Quilt Show. This was a large exhibition of over 800 quilts and 6000 visitors. It is held each year.
These are just a couple of unusual quilts among the many quilts that they showed us:
The exhibition included art quilts, quilts based on antique quilts, traditional Czech quilts, some Cuban quilts, and other international quilts and challenges. A really diverse and interesting assortment.
They met the much-travelled Gillian Travis who was exhibiting at the show and who's work I saw in Bristol. This is a little taster of some of her wall hangings
More exploring followed their quilty day and I love this modern building that they showed us. It is called the "Dancing House" or "Fred and Ginger".
Many thanks to Dy and Melody for putting together this thoroughly enjoyable evening, ably assisted by their chaps Martin and Paddy.
Liz brought along her Little Harbour quilts which she has put together as a foursome in a wall hanging. They look brilliant.
These are the two links if you'd like to see more and read a bit of a tutorial on making your own. Little Harbours at Flowerpatch Exhibition and Little Harbour Workshop at Flowerpatch
Next meeting is on 9th March when Sue and Jo will be showing us their collections of antique quilts. It would be lovely if any members who have old quilts would bring them along as well, to share with us all. - Anita x
