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I am a quilter living in Woodbridge, Suffolk who has made quilts since I was a teenager. I also ring bells! Both are great British traditions....I will try to feature some of my antique Welsh and Durham quilts, the quilts I make myself, my quilting activities and also some of my bellringing achievements. Plus as many photos as I can manage. NB: Double click on the photos to see greater detail, then use back button to return to the main page.













Friday 4 October 2013

Last photos from FOQ 2013...

Last photos from the Festival of Quilts in August...in no special order, I'm afraid...


One of the pictorial quilts...


Reds in the Beds by Cowslip Workshops, Launceston. Quilt made from leftover scraps, longarm quilted. Third prize, group quilts.

Winner of Miniature Quilts, Rose of Versailles, by Kumiko Frydell of Texas. Trapunto with free machine quilting, using metallic and silk kimono threads.


Detail of the quilting....


Moving World - Spring and Winter, Taiwan Art Quilt Society. Hand piecing, hand quilted with hand applique. Commercial cottons. Group quilt.


Winning group quilt, by DE12 A2, Barcelona. Inspired by advertising signs that change...one view...


....and the other view....


Quilt Creation, Hannelore Nunn of Southwell, Anyone for Chess? Hand embroidery, machine piecing and quilting.


Little Broken Dishes  bu Suzi Corke of Kettering. Machine pieced and machine quilted.


Hunting Song, by Silvia Dell'Aere of Dresano. Applique, painting, dyeing, machine quilting, thread painting.
Third prize miniature quilts.


Bridesmaid Memento by Jean Parrot of West Wickham. Made from the remnants of bridesmaids dresses. 


Buzz Saw by Dorian Walton, Stevenage. Foundation piecing, machine quilting. Inspired by an Amish cot quilt in the Sara Miller Collection.


Linzi Upton won first prize in Quilt Creations with her Quilted Coracle. Woven wicker, freehand longarm quilted. embellished with beads. Coracles are small bowl shaped fishing vessels, used in Welsh rivers. Inspired by a Bronze Age coracle in Elgin Museum, Instead of tarred  canvas, decorative fabrics were used.


Detail of the quilting...

Second prize in Quilt Creations was won by Philippa Naylor of Beverley.
Scarletts Crimson, an original design inspired by couture of the 1950's. 
Machine and hand pieced, free motion quilting, contrasting piping.


Detail of the quilting, done on a domestic sewing machine.

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