2011 Quilters' Guild Challenge - "Festival"
Hilary Beattie
'Flower Festival'
Inspired by an arrangement of alliums seen at a flower festival in Epsom. Fabrics dyed, printed and painted by artist. Bonded appliqué, machine quilted and decorative hand stitch. Mounted on covered canvas. |
Kate Dowty
Trying to capture the essence of festivals with vibrant colours and participants enjoying shared activities.
Painted wholecloth, machine quilted.
Painted wholecloth, machine quilted.
Anne Riches
The Maori festival celebrates the arrival in a new country of spectacular light and mountains, with their patterns and symbols.
Dyed and discharged fabrics, with painted appliqué and digital words and photos, with free machine quilting. |
Jill Stillman
Irregular pieced background of mixed fabrics. Appliqué of bonded balloons. Machine quilted. |
Helen Howes
Fiesta in the Sun
Colour, sparkle, division. |
Jennie Wood
Holi - a riotous Indian Festival of paint and powders thrown everywhere, showering everyone and everything in bright, vibrant colour.
Organza stencil cut with heat tool - bonded and appliquéd. pieced silks, zingy fabrics and zips. Printed, embroidered and quilted motifs. |
Linda Robinson
Poster like advertisement of a festival. Flags, balloons and streamers. Sunshine and icecream, everybody lining the streets, waving.
Hand dyed and painted fabric. Appliqué and reverse appliqué. machine quilted. |
Cherry Vernon-Harcourt
Festival - celebrations -food - trifle!
Wholecloth quilt. Cotton fabric, coloured with thickened Procion dye. machine and hand quilted. |
Jenny Davies
Harvest Festival - childhood memories of a slower pace of life and appreciation of what we had.
Machine pieced, commercial and hand made stencils, printed and mono printed with fabric paint and Markal paintsticks. hand and machine stitched. |
Birgitta Debenham
Simplified plan of triangular labyrinth at Pimperne, Dorset, much used by youngsters "on holydaies". Ploughed up and lost in 1730.
Vintage linen damask table cloth (itself used for many feasts and festivals), raw edge appliqué, free machine quilting. |
Ali Mesley
Festivals around the world - carnivals, Mardi Gras. Music festivals in Britain with campsites packed with tents.
Hand-dyed cloth, machine pieced. Hand quilted and stitched. Embellishments also hand quilted. |
Jane Appelbee
I have always loved the play of light and music at festivals/rock concerts. This is my festival!
Screen printed and painted cotton with dye, discharging. Markal, fabric paint, cotton batting. machine quilted. |