Festival of Quilts

Last weekend was the Festival of Quilts at the NEC.  It is the best craft related show at the NEC each year.  I was very fortunate to win 2 free tickets from Storage4Crafts, one of which I gave to a friend.  Then after the Show opened I was offered another free ticket in return for sitting on The Granary Studio stand for a couple of hours.

As a consequence I went on Friday afternoon and again on Sunday.   Here are the quilts that caught my eye.  You may notice a couple of themes!

Tempus Fugit by Cherilyn Martin

House by Irina Voronina

Where there's a mine by Liz Hewitt

Fracture by Betty Busby

A Post-Truth Quilt by Sara Impey

If Nature Captures the City by Brigitte Kopp

Dialogues by Elly van Steenbeek

Good Intentions by Elly van Steenbeek

Big Brother by Lesley Brankin

Colour Study III by Sandra van Velzen

Fractured Squares by Hilary Jackson

White January by Lisbet Borggreen

Interpolations9 by Helen Howes

Summer Garden by Jean Wells

Ephuses by Jean Wells

After the Rain by Jean Wells

Cross Cut by Jean Wells

It Shouldn't Need To Be Said by Ellie Taylor

Penhelig by Susan Attwood

Volcano by Yvonne Kervinen

This Land is Barren & Broken by Liz Hewitt

Erasing History by Jo Coombes

So what did you notice?

Colour palette?  Lines & Squares?   Maps?  Text?

I found it very interesting to see what caught my eye.

Hope you enjoyed my view of the show.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

ExTex Homework

Experimental Textiles or ExTex 5 started last month with Kim Thittichai.

Since that weekend I have worked on the repeat patterns from our first session and started the homework.

I felt that my 'journey' piece was really airy fairy so I scanned part of it and printed it out.  I printed a second copy and went over it with black pens to make it stronger.

These are the patterns I had taken from the journey activity.

I have set out all my work in my sketchbook but rather than using glue I have used washi tape just in case I want to assemble the work differently when I've done the activities in session 2.

Here I've played with one of the design sections.

For this I tidied up the original design section so that the pieces would fit together better.  I tried two different colourways.

 I tried a different way of flipping the design and different sizes.

Here's a coloured in repeated pattern

For homework we were asked to develop a design in black and white felt using the opposites inserted.   I drew out the repeating pattern in black and white.

I cut out the pieces of felt and used bondaweb to attach the pieces to calico ready to stitch.  On the right hand side are two pages of repeat patterns out together on the computer.

I haven't decided how I am going to stitch on the felt yet so I will share the finished result at a later stage.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice