As promised here are some of the larger quilts on display at Flowerpatch Quilter's exhibition at the beginning of the month.
This first is My Whimsical Quilt Garden made by Dy - from Piece O' Cake Designs
and Liz B's Back to Basics, made for a friend.
This is Melody's Rotherfields Greys Minus One - from a Di Ford design
and Discovery by Sue M - from a Petra Prins design.
Here is Monica D's I did It Janet! - about 15 years in the making and well worth the wait!
Finally the Bluebell Quilt - a group effort made by Ann, Brenda, Dawn, Phyll, Ruby, Sheila and myself.
Each little square is just 1½ "
and the bluebells are embroidered with variegated thread.
Yet more to come from the exhibition next post! - Anita x
Here are some more photos from our Flowerpatch Quilt exhibition and I see that I missed some of the lovely wall quilts in my last post.
These are Karen's Blooms, Birds & Berries and Pippa's Blue Square
Arnolda's Zak's Quilt and Elizabeth's A Hug for Ruth
and two charming flower pics in Annie's cushion and Lois's Daisies
Our exhibition is in two large rooms one of which is themed. This year the theme was Leisure.
Next time I have pics of some of the larger quilts to show you.
Happy Sewing - Anita x
After the excitement of Flowerpatch Quilter's 5 day exhibition followed by a 2 day trip to the Festival of Quilts, my feet have finally touched the ground and I can share some of the beautiful quilts that I have seen.
Firstly at Flowerpatch where, yet again, we were delighted with the response to our displays by the many visitors from all over the Westcountry and beyond.
These are some of the wall quilts, but by no means all:
Annie's Farm Life and Iris L's Mariner's Compass and Joy of Life
Cherrie's Oliver's Snowman and Nina's Skipping in Springtime
Liz B's Sea Horses and Pixie Land
Tina's Hearts and Jane's Lauren's Quilt
Sue M's Shoo Fly and Star Quilt
Sue S's Sunflower and Japanese Folded Patchwork
What an amazing and diverse collection of quilts - there's always plenty to inspire.
Lots more from Flowerpatch exhibition next blog post.
Happy Stitching - Anita
A recent exhibition by a Cornish embroidery group called "Textile +", inspired Dawn, Annie and myself to make small wall hangings from photographs. I thought that I would share them with you as the process was such fun and the results very interesting - especially to us!! They were on display at the Flowerpatch exhibition last week.
We each had to choose a photograph from which to make our textile hanging and then hand the photo to the other two for them to do the same. We didn't let each other view our finished works until they were all done - nor did we discuss what we might be going to embroider, etc.
These are the results:
My photo is a fence post on the cliff top,
Dawn's photo is a field of bales
and Annie's photo is a door with peeling paint
All the wall hangings are small - A5 size
I hope that by sharing these I may inspire you to do something similar with your friends and finally use those photos that have been filed away for future reference! I was so pleased to do something at last with my photo of the post and rusty barbed wire, which I took some years ago at Hartland Quay.
Happy Sewing
Anita x
