Kate Crossley - Kate's Book of Uncommon Prayer
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Hazel Ryder - After Anna
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Art Category 2011 - FOQ 2011
Hannelore Braunsberg - Colours of Winter
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Margaret Pratt - Crystallization
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Birgitta Debenham - Garden Portraits
I draw flowers, birds and leaves that may or may not exist.
Heavy cotton panels, dye painted with wet and thickened dye. hand quilted on vintage woollen blanket (cotton perle, chainstitch, blanket stitch). |
Dee Nicholson - Ash: The Healing Tree
The colours, shape and texture of the winged seeds and leaves of an ash in full sun in late spring.
Appliqué with hand dyed fabric and machine embroidery on linen, colour discharge and machine quilting. |
Stephanie Redfern - Sea Lily
This piece is based upon sea lily and botanical fossils, and the use of limited colour palette.
Painted calico, appliqué, hand and machine stitch, mixed media. |
Tina Slipper - Marmaris
I tried to catch the glimpse of silvery blue fish in the depths of the turquoise sea around Marmaris, Turkey.
Exposed dyed wadding. Overlaid with stamped, painted, raw edge silks, wools, cottons, stitched and embellished with sequins and beads. |
Pauline Barnes - Silence is Golden
It started as a 'doodle' whilst trying to get a word in on a one-sided telephone conversation.
Wool/viscose felt, using twin needle and automatic machine stitches. Soluble fabric, wire, nylon sheer fabric. |
Sue Hotchkis - Herculaneum
Inspired by the distressed walls and broken tiles found on a visit to Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Mono printing onto brown paper then waxed and machine patchworked together. Cotton fabric screen printed and discharged. Machine quilted. |
Jackie Smith - Heartache and Hope
A Foundling Museum visit and the thought of handing your child over, hoping to be reunited in better times.
Aged and painted fabrics with hand written forms, divided by ribbons. Part of hand made clothing and tokens attached. |
Sheena Norquay - Inverness Breakers
Inspired by the colours and movement of the sea and the pattern it leaves on the sand.
Machine pieced, quilted and some fabric painting. |
Helen Howes - My Oakshott Bonus Colourbox One
An Oakshott Colourbox I wasn't expecting, much thought and scratching-of-the-head.
100 colours of cotton fabrics plus gold, 100 tiny quilts make one big forest. |
Hilary Beattie - Jugs 2: Favourite Things
Following a personal theme of jugs, with addition of tulips and pots:- all connected to me, all favourite things.
Fabrics painted and printed by artist. Bonded appliqué, machine quilted and stitched, plus decorative hand stitching. Mounted on covered board. |
Greta Fitchett - Moroccan Influences
The exuberance of Moroccan design, pattern and colour found in textiles, ceramics, wood carving and architecture.
Hand dyed and painted silk, patchwork, appliqué, embroidery, hand and machine quilting, and surface embellishment. |
Georgina Chapman - Orange Sorbet - One Scoop or Two?
The glorious hand dyed fabrics bought in Columbus, Ohio, 2010.
Heavily free machined wholecloth. Embellished appliquéd circles (mostly machined). |
Margaret Pratt - The Gathering
The painting 'Dark Presence' by Barbara Rae. I chose the bird motif from this to create the rather scary feeling of birds 'en masse' rather Hitchcock!
Hand dyed silco and hobra silk. Birds thermofax printed and some appliquéd. 3 blackbirds painted with acrylic wax. |
Robbie le Poidevin - Traeer
A picture in a hotel room and a confused state of mind. Couldn't see the wood for the trees.
Oakshott fabrics stenciled with acrylic paint, wool viscose felt, ikat fabric. Machine quilted and assembled in sections. |
Sarah Showers - From the Rocks of Petra
A recent visit to Petra and its amazing buildings and rock formations, in close up their patterns are fluid and colourful.
Machine pieced and quilted using a mix of own dyed fabrics and commercial fabrics, which have been printed, stamped and foiled by the artist. |
Janet Twinn - Prelude
Inspired by my local landscape, this quilt marks the transition from winter to spring, a time of hope and expectation.
100% cotton, dye painting, screen printing, mono printing, soy wax resit. machine pieced and quilted. |
Sue Payne - Line over Matter
Experimental art quilt exploring spaces between broken lines over more solid shapes to create overall balanced and free flowing composition.
Hand dyed Indigo batik calico on plain calico backing quilted together with running stitch using a variety of toning threads. |
Wil Opio Oguta - All Beauty will Perish
Using 2 layers I was able to show the glory of the poppies I love and the deterioration of the seed pods.
Background pieced traditional block. Flowers fused raw edge appliqué. Seedpods zapped painted Lutradur on silk paper. All hand dyed fabrics. |
Gillian Travis - Impressions of Romania Hanging on a Line
Rugs, hanging on washing lines in Northern Romania.
Paint, print and appliqué with machine stitch. |
Nicqui Willis - Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Breakdown and screen printed then discharged and trapunto and machine embroidered. |
Kate Dowty - Rape Fields
The colours of Spring when the fields turn all shades of green interspersed with the vibrant yellow of oilseed rape.
Painted, dyed and some commercial fabrics, heavily machine stitched with additional embellishments. |
Karen Hurrell - Follow the Beat
Rhythms which regulate all our lives, from our hearts beating to the cycle of generations from childhood to old age.
Pieced background with design using fabric paint and free machine quilting. |
Alicia Merrett - The Night Road
One of my series of maps and aerial views. The roads shine brightly, winding through a village and its darkened surroundings.
Freehand cutting and piecing, hand-dyed fabrics, machine quilting. |
Elaine Smith - Breakdown. A Hot Summers Day in May
Learning how to do breakdown printing - taking the resulting cloth through further dyeing processes to use for making the wall hanging.
Doodling on a silk screen using thickened Procion dyes and textured objects - printed on white cotton sateen, over dyed, pieced, machine quilted. |
Grace Meijer - Too late
It was a challenge to do something with Blues. The song by Chuck Willis set me off. This piece is a combination of different meanings of blues, colour mood and music.
Hand-dyed fabric, machine appliquéd, stenciled, Markalled, hand and machine quilted. |
Annette Morgan - Beth Chatto's Bamboo ll
Beth Chatto's bamboo has long since been an inspiration in my work. this piece reflects on the Chinese and Japanese interpretation of bamboo.
Hand dyed fabric by the maker. machine quilted, fabric burnt with soldering iron, machine appliqué. |
Cherry Vernon-Harcourt - High Maintenance
Be positive about pylons - great shapes and spaces!
Wholecloth quilt. Cotton fabric dyed. Discharged and scraped with Procion dye. Machine and hand quilted. |
Kate Findlay - Atomic (Chromium)
This piece is inspired by the large hadron collider and the structure of a chromium atom.
Machine appliqué with synthetic fabrics and cottons. Some hand embellishments added. |
Leah Higgins - New Directions
It began as a simple shape but became an exploration of colour and movement.
Screen printing, dyeing and discharge on cotton sateen. Layered and machine quilted. |
Delia Salter - November Blanket
A blanket to warm and protect as winter arrives. Delicate outlines and shapes of hedgerow plants - always something to celebrate.
Hand dyed brushed cotton. Plants collected from hedgerows, sketched then stitched. machine sewn to base with complementary seeding stitch. |