http://www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk/kitsandpatterns/cornertute.html
Ziggy Edges
I was asked to make a tutorial for in-and-out bindings for ziggy corners, as on my Trickle or Treacle quilt
http://www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk/kitsandpatterns/cornertute.html
http://www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk/kitsandpatterns/cornertute.html
Gathering Together
Not just people, although I will enjoy the Teapot Quilters this afternoon, but also blocks. I'm a member of Contemporary Quilt, a Specialist group within The Quilters' Guild tending to Art. Without the courage to use that Big Word, however..
So, this year's Challenge theme is Fragmentation, which seems almost too easy for a cutter-up of fabrics like me. I thought of these lovely blocks, and I'm jigsawing them together. They are all different sizes, and need gently shaping and straightening and amalgamating into bigger blocks
Here's one in progress
These blocks are leftovers from one of my Moon series quilts - I made them in a fairly mindless way, from little bits of Japanese fabrics and hand-dyes, when I was desperately trying to distract myself from a very sick husband and a very very disrupted year. These were the excess having made the original quilt. I don't have a good shot of the original, but here's a detail
The Moon series are about the 13 full moons of the year, and are inspired by the traditional names and associations of these moons from many cultures. This one is February, and is called Shoulder To Shoulder Around The Fire - it's about using the last scraps of whatever you have to survive, sharing, and huddling together.. So, appropriate for this time of year. What has this got to do with Modern? Apart from the Improv, the use-it-up, and the inspiration, not much, but who cares?
So, this year's Challenge theme is Fragmentation, which seems almost too easy for a cutter-up of fabrics like me. I thought of these lovely blocks, and I'm jigsawing them together. They are all different sizes, and need gently shaping and straightening and amalgamating into bigger blocks
Here's one in progress
These blocks are leftovers from one of my Moon series quilts - I made them in a fairly mindless way, from little bits of Japanese fabrics and hand-dyes, when I was desperately trying to distract myself from a very sick husband and a very very disrupted year. These were the excess having made the original quilt. I don't have a good shot of the original, but here's a detail
The Moon series are about the 13 full moons of the year, and are inspired by the traditional names and associations of these moons from many cultures. This one is February, and is called Shoulder To Shoulder Around The Fire - it's about using the last scraps of whatever you have to survive, sharing, and huddling together.. So, appropriate for this time of year. What has this got to do with Modern? Apart from the Improv, the use-it-up, and the inspiration, not much, but who cares?
3-D fun in Norfolk!
Had a great workshop in Norwich on Saturday with the lovely ladies of Norfolk Quilters teaching my BLOCK PARTY design.
They were brilliant hosts, keeping me well supplied with hot beverages and shortbread! Looking forward to teaching them again next year - they promise they will all have finished it by then!
They were brilliant hosts, keeping me well supplied with hot beverages and shortbread! Looking forward to teaching them again next year - they promise they will all have finished it by then!
Long Time...
...in hospital, time passes like treacle, and I have just had a simultaneous 6 days/5000 years in one noisy over-lit bed. Back home, and my Juki is here, and I've been reading this lovely book in bed before I go to sleep...
Not only a fascinating look at the whys and whatfors as much as the whats (and no patterns, no need) of quilting, but also a delight to hold and look at - a well-made book is always a pleasure. Not easy to see in the photo, but the cover has cut-outs exposing the underneath image. Thomas Knauer has to be one of the most influential voices of Modern Quilting, besides being a jolly nice chap (I recall crawling around in the middle of the Guild stand on top of one of my Tiger quilts explaining curved piecing to him in 2014, much to the overwhelming horror of the Guild bods looking on.) Modern in a nutshell...
In theory, not out till next week, but I got this on order from my local bookshop last week
Not only a fascinating look at the whys and whatfors as much as the whats (and no patterns, no need) of quilting, but also a delight to hold and look at - a well-made book is always a pleasure. Not easy to see in the photo, but the cover has cut-outs exposing the underneath image. Thomas Knauer has to be one of the most influential voices of Modern Quilting, besides being a jolly nice chap (I recall crawling around in the middle of the Guild stand on top of one of my Tiger quilts explaining curved piecing to him in 2014, much to the overwhelming horror of the Guild bods looking on.) Modern in a nutshell...
In theory, not out till next week, but I got this on order from my local bookshop last week
Class Action
So nice when you re-visit an area and see the results of the class you taught!
Last year, once the West Country Quilt Show had finished, HH and I spent a day teaching a large group of ladies at a village hall somewhere near Bristol (SatNav took us there, I would never be able to find it again!) Nothing unusual in HH and I teaching together, but this time we were teaching two very different classes in the same hall. Despite our initial reservations it all went very well and everyone enjoyed themselves.
So you can imagine my pleasure when I saw these two little groups of quilts hanging in the Bristol Modern Group's gallery space today.
Last year, once the West Country Quilt Show had finished, HH and I spent a day teaching a large group of ladies at a village hall somewhere near Bristol (SatNav took us there, I would never be able to find it again!) Nothing unusual in HH and I teaching together, but this time we were teaching two very different classes in the same hall. Despite our initial reservations it all went very well and everyone enjoyed themselves.
So you can imagine my pleasure when I saw these two little groups of quilts hanging in the Bristol Modern Group's gallery space today.
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| TREASURE BOXES - pattern available on www.littlepatchpocket.co.uk |
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| TREES - pattern available on www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk |
Sadly none of them had labels on, I would have loved to be able to credit the makers. What a stunning collection!
West Country Quilt Show!
Two sore feet and one dead drill battery (luckily I had a spare!) and the Modern Art Quilters' Roadshow hits the ground running in Bristol this weekend.
Metaphorically producing a hare out of a baseball cap (hares are much more magical creatures than rabbits, and I would look really silly in a top hat) a blank, white walled space is transformed into a veritable art gallery:
I bit of tidying up in the morning and I will be good to go with demonstrations of foundation paper piecing for anyone who cares to listen. I will be here at the UWE Frenchay Campus Thursday 29th to Saturday 31st August surrounded by our lovely hand-dyed fabrics, patterns and kits as well as other interesting exhibits and stallholders, come and find me on stand G21. Click on any of the photos to visit the Quilt Show's website for details.
I must admit to feelings of trepidation since this is my first time flying solo at a show of this size (they don't let me out on my own much!) but I think I managed not to forget anything important and the only thing that got damaged in transit was the bin:
Oh dear, I don't think it will ever be the same again. This will probably get thrown away on the last day, with the rubbish.
Metaphorically producing a hare out of a baseball cap (hares are much more magical creatures than rabbits, and I would look really silly in a top hat) a blank, white walled space is transformed into a veritable art gallery:
I bit of tidying up in the morning and I will be good to go with demonstrations of foundation paper piecing for anyone who cares to listen. I will be here at the UWE Frenchay Campus Thursday 29th to Saturday 31st August surrounded by our lovely hand-dyed fabrics, patterns and kits as well as other interesting exhibits and stallholders, come and find me on stand G21. Click on any of the photos to visit the Quilt Show's website for details.
I must admit to feelings of trepidation since this is my first time flying solo at a show of this size (they don't let me out on my own much!) but I think I managed not to forget anything important and the only thing that got damaged in transit was the bin:
Oh dear, I don't think it will ever be the same again. This will probably get thrown away on the last day, with the rubbish.
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