Contemporary Quilt Category - FOQ 2011
Mai-Britt Axelsen - Blue Moon
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Christine Chester - Retro Bubbles
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Jennie Wood - 35 Below
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Tina Slipper - Happy Sunshine
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Jo Rednall - Rethinking Policies
Rethinking policies shows the firebird hovering over government buildings, the cooking posts of action planning
Fabric positioned with Bondaweb. Technique includes counterchange. Sandwich is topped with organza and free machine quilted. Other fabrics are cotton. |
Sarah Showers - Navaho
The patterns from native American flags and blankets.
Hand pieced over papers, machine quilted and hand tied and beaded. |
Greta Fitchett - Stars and Stripes
A large quantity of patterned and plain fabric that needed to be used in a creative way.
Pieced blocks in a variety of sizes and shapes based on log cabin in patchwork. machine quilted with stars and surrounding pattern. |
Jill Stillman - Caribbean Beach
The painting "Dark Presence at 12" by Scottish artists Barbara Rae.
Mixed fabrics, randomly strip pieced to feature colour. Close machine quilted, twisted sari silk and fancy knitting thread couched down. |
Ann Beech - Storm Across the Beaches
Storms rolling in across the Los Angeles beaches. Heightened by the concrete groynes and grey lifeguard stations.
Foundation pieced entirely hand dyed silks and cotton sateen screen printed with textile inks. Twin needle quilting. |
Birgitta Debenham - Shepherd's Warning
Using a modern shibori technique to interpret the saying "red sky in the morning is the shepherd's warning".
Home dyed cottons and linens, underpainted, wrapped on plaited coils, and immersion dyed. machine pieced and quilted. Synthetic batting. |
Edwina Mackinnon - Lichen Strikes Twice
A photograph of a lichen covered log at Coughton Court inspired a collection of hand dyed and printed fabrics.
Hand dyed and printed., soy wax resist and discharged. |
Ineke Berlyn - 4 Seasons
Wood planks, the development of my barn through the seasons and the need to fill a tall wall inspired this work.
Cotton sateen, hand dyed, printed with thermofax screens, machine pieced, mainly machine quilted and finished by hand. |
Fiona Macaulay Davies - Alpine Vista
The view from an Alpine cafe, reflecting the contrast green grass and grey rocks in the bright sunshine and dark shadows.
Foundation pieced irregular log cabin. machine pieced and quilted. |
Hilary Beattie - Echinacea Purpurea
Inspired by the exhuuberant colour and shape of the wonderful coneflower - a personal favourite.
Mixture of dyed, photo printed, printed and painted fabrics and commercials. Bonded collage and appliqué. Machine quilted and stitched. |
Julie Mackinder - Turning, Disappearing
Cornwall and its glorious sea, colours and textiles continue to inspire me.
A"turning 9" made mostly from my hand dyes, cut up and rearranged with digital images and surface detail. |
Leah Higgins - Interference 1
Mother boards and electronic circuitry. Ideas broken up and hidden from sight. Colours inspired by the movie Tron.
Screen printing with dye and discharge paste. Layered and machine quilted. Seen through Circular apertures. |
Jane Appelbee - Turbulence
Inspiration - fast flowing streams twinkling in the sun, the sound of rippled water and my love of curves!
Cotton, Artic Wool, recycled plastic and boning inclusions. Machine stitching. Angelina, beading. Markal. Hand dyed. |