Members' Abstract Quilts
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Mini Aboriginal JQ
Fiona Macaulay Davies
8" x 12" Inspired by pictures of Aboriginal Burial Posts, it is machine pieced mostly based on Seminole patterns. |
Mini Aboriginal JQ
Fiona Macaulay Davies
8" x 12" Based on Aboriginal Dot Paintings and is free machined. |
Space Between
Sally-Ann Douglass
24" square These two quilts are my pieces for the first Full Circle Challenge round-robin "Between the Lines". The brief was for a 12inch square with lots of red. "Space Between" is my solo take of the design - the stylised letters of the word SPACE. It is, again, strip patchwork in silks and cottons, extended to 24" square and overlaid with organzas and machine stitch. |
Carousel
Sally-Ann Douglass
24" square "Carousel" is my initial square of strip patchwork in silks and cottons, with contributions from Sarah Showers, Pippa Wardman and Judy Fairless. Their finished piece reminded me of a fairground, full of movement and colour. |
The Green at Southwick
Amelia Leigh
50" x 29" As the title suggests, my inspiration was the Green in Southwick were I live and some of the roads and houses that surround it. Piecing, hand-printed/painted and commercial cotton fabrics, machine and hand-quilted. |
On the Ocean Floor
Amelia Leigh 35.75" x 56" What we might see if we were sitting on the ocean floor, sunk ships, fishes, reflections from things above the water, etc. Wholecloth, hand-painted cotton using thickened dyes, machine and hand-quilted. |
I can see a rainbow
Mary Chidlow
34" x 38" Inspiration was an old Singer treadle machine. Cotton fabric in various colours was sewn together and laid under a plain cotton. Reverse applique. Hand and machine quilted. |
Stripes before the eyes
Mary Chidlow
24" x 21" No inspiration - just make as you go. A small stash of striped and plain cotton fabric, sewn together, cut, turned, appliqued. |
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Khurshid Bamboat
2008 Made after my first workshop with Nancy Crow. Hand dyed fabrics, machine pieced and quilted Exhibited at Festival of Quilts & Dulwich Quilters Exhibition 2008 |
Chop Change and Darn
Khurshid Bamboat
2008 Dulwich Quilters Challenge |
Strata
Carole Ward
100 x 141 cm Made from white iced-dyed cotton in 4 different multi colourways and using a design taken from drawings of beach pebbles. I made a plastic template that conveyed rock strata. Reverse appliqued then pieced together matching the design. |
Beach Strata
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Jennifer Welsby
12" x 43" Abstract water colour painting created at a Katie Pasquini Masopust masterclass Materials & techniques: Commercial and hand dyed cotton fabrics with a little tuille overlay. Mainly turned edge applique but some bonding. Heavily machine quilted with a wide variety of threads. |
Sonnet 18 Triptych
Alicia Merrett
Each separate quilt is 18” by 48” The theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” is growth, maturity and decay – also described as Spring, Late Summer and Autumn/Winter. They are reflected in the colour and design of each of the three pieces. The quotations printed on them are: The Darling Buds of May, Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade, and In Eternal Lines to Time. Hand-dyed cotton sateens, freehand cut, machine pieced and quilted. Therrmofax screen-printed with acrylic paints. |
Time & The City
Alicia Merrett
40” by 48” The city grows and expands, a jumble of buildings pulsating within a grid. The essence of time is change. The city by its very nature changes and evolves all the time. Hand-dyed cotton sateens, freehand cut, machine pieced and quilted. Thermofax screen-printed with acrylic paints. |
French Banners
Helen Howes
4 metres long by variable width from about 80 cm to nothing Made as a commission to hang on the grey stone walls of a French chateau, in about 2005. Note that there is no green in the rainbows, by the client's request Cotton fabrics, foundation-pieced and quilted by machine. Variable-width bindings |
Red and Gold
Helen Howes
Approx 20" by 14" Cut from a larger piece which was not working - I made several of similar colours. Cotton and gold fabrics, pieced and quilted by machine |
A Walk through Wisley
Cath Stonard
24” x 24” Inspired by aboriginal art, it is mainly applique on a crazy background, with machine embroidery/free motion quilting, and acrylic paint. |
Reflected Sunlight
Cath Stonard
46” x 11” Inspired by a photo I took of some heavy duty polythene sheets stapled over a barn window, reflecting sunlight as it rippled in the breeze. Each of the five panels are 100% rag paper, painted with silk paint, and mounted onto silk before being free machine and hand quilted. |
Moth Wing
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Cath Stonard
16” x 36” Inspired by the markings on a moths wing, it was constructed from my hand dyed cotton, appliqued, hand and machine quilted. |
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The Quilters' Guild of The British Isles
St Anthony's Hall York, YO1 7PW United Kingdom |