First of all, thank you to Helen for bringing my Bloglines subscription back up to 24. Helen recently joined the Artful Quilters Web Ring and I encourage you to check out her blog and the blogs of the other “noobles“. I made a few more circles from a selection of my own hand dyed fabrics, […]
Contemporary Quilts
Circles of Inspiration
When I flew into Pasco airport in Washington State last month, I was fascinated by the shape, texture and colour of the irrigation crop circles: I have so many ideas about how these circles might translate into a quilt. Free cut pieced circles are one possible interpretation: Thank goodness for digital cameras which capture different […]
Quilting in Progress!
Photographic evidence that I am making progress with quilting “Unplugged” : Yes I know this shows the quilt upside down but I wanted to put the baggy, unquilted sections at the bottom. The quilting is quite heavy with lines approximately 1/8″ apart. As an experiment, I am quilting these lines with a darning foot rather […]
A Day in the Country
Yesterday, two friends and I set off for Wollombi to view an exhibition of contemporary textiles and ‘everyday exotica’ by The Facets: Jan Clark, Susan Cooper, Kathy Hoipo, Marcia Hoipo and Jude New. Once again, I was drawn to the works of Jan Clark: These pieces by Marcia Hoipo also caught my attention: After we […]
More thoughts on Bali Batiks
As Helen has commented, highly patterned or multi-coloured bali batik fabrics can be challenging to work with. Like many large scale prints that do not “read” as a single value, batik patterns can be just too busy particularly in complex quilt designs. But wild patterns can be tamed to good effect in simple, large pieced […]
Chocolate Mint Slice
I admit that I’ve been known to partake in a chocolate mint slice or two in my time but the inspiration for this piece was actually this Google earth aerial image of the French countryside that my brother Rowan sent me earlier in the year: I’m sure if I am going to continue with the […]