Welcome to Contemporary Quilt
Contemporary Quilt is a special interest group of The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles.
We are a diverse group of quilters and fabric artists working at the cutting edge of quilt making creating innovative and dynamic art.
We are a diverse group of quilters and fabric artists working at the cutting edge of quilt making creating innovative and dynamic art.
CQ member Sheena J Norquay has written How the sea has influenced my work.Read the full article here www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk/articles-from-the-cq-magazine.html
It is with great pleasure that I can announce Kay Leech to be the winner of the Anne Tuck Award for 2020 with her quilt ‘Torn by Time’. The Judges commented that Kay with this piece showed great potential for the future.
On behalf of the CQ Committee I send our sincerest congratulations to Kay and hope the award will assist her in developing that quilting future. (Karin)
On behalf of the CQ Committee I send our sincerest congratulations to Kay and hope the award will assist her in developing that quilting future. (Karin)
Kay Leech winner of the Anne Tuck prize 2020
Kay Leech
Torn by Time
Exploring the work of American quilt artist Jude Hill I felt that her torn material technique embodied the idea of fragmentation. I live in Cumbria and the design reflects the colours of the landscape with couched threads denoting both hills and the layers of rock from which it is constructed. The rocks are fragmented by time and the process of weathering and the free-machined words highlight these processes. Coronavirus meant that life itself felt to have been fragmented hence the addition of the words in darker stitch 'Landscape fragmented torn by time'
Torn by Time is constructed with torn strips of a variety of hand-dyed fabrics including muslin, old cotton sheet, calico, and viscose, woven together in sections and basted to a very thin backing material. Five mini woven areas were inserted. The sections were then interwoven and basted to form the background and words were free-machined over this. I decided that I would use wadding to give the piece structure. The layers were quilted together using a combination of hand and machine quilting. Llama and other threads were couched on the surface and French knots added.
Torn by Time
Exploring the work of American quilt artist Jude Hill I felt that her torn material technique embodied the idea of fragmentation. I live in Cumbria and the design reflects the colours of the landscape with couched threads denoting both hills and the layers of rock from which it is constructed. The rocks are fragmented by time and the process of weathering and the free-machined words highlight these processes. Coronavirus meant that life itself felt to have been fragmented hence the addition of the words in darker stitch 'Landscape fragmented torn by time'
Torn by Time is constructed with torn strips of a variety of hand-dyed fabrics including muslin, old cotton sheet, calico, and viscose, woven together in sections and basted to a very thin backing material. Five mini woven areas were inserted. The sections were then interwoven and basted to form the background and words were free-machined over this. I decided that I would use wadding to give the piece structure. The layers were quilted together using a combination of hand and machine quilting. Llama and other threads were couched on the surface and French knots added.
Website Banner image by Alicia Merrett 'The Thin Blue Line' first map quilt Alicia had made.
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