Members' quilts on a theme of people and portraits
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Series
Kate Findlay
Summer Boating
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Gillian Travis
On a trip to India, travelling through Rajasthan and Gujarat, I took hundreds of photos of the men, women and children . I love the bright colours of the clothes the women wear.
I generally paint the background of my quilts, including the faces and add block and screen printing. I appliqué the clothing, often using second hand sari silk that I bought in India.
Some of the quilts have added running stitch.
On a trip to India, travelling through Rajasthan and Gujarat, I took hundreds of photos of the men, women and children . I love the bright colours of the clothes the women wear.
I generally paint the background of my quilts, including the faces and add block and screen printing. I appliqué the clothing, often using second hand sari silk that I bought in India.
Some of the quilts have added running stitch.
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Tracey Odart
Pop Art
8" x 6"
Painted silk 'pop art' portrait with bamboo wadding and black cotton backing. The black quilting follows the lines of the features. |
X Box calling
10.7" x 7.7" (Criteria: to be under A4 size and any shape other than a rectangle)
Hand quilted in black floss to form portrait image. Edged in blanket stitch. Cotton, bamboo wadding and felt. It was hence the strange choice of shape! Exhibited: European quilt exhibition with the theme of 'Boredom'' hence my son looking bored while he eats his dinner! |
Self Portrait
14"x12"
Two layers of cotton with free motion machine stitching for face and hand embroidery for hair to stitch layers together. |
Digital Imagery
Boz in Blue
Hilary Richardson
Cyanoprinted on cotton using original illustrations
published with Dickens stories. Machine quilted with a piped edge.
Exhibited: Made for Portsmouth Museum’s celebration of Dicken’s birth in Portsmouth in 1812 |
‘Not all sisters have a choice’
Linda Bilsborrow
24” x 24" Digital images combined in Gimp, printed onto fabric and then incorporated into a single ‘Sister’s Choice block. Machine pieced and quilted. Exhibited: Sisters Choice Challenge Llangollen 2009 It was made in the period between the discovery of Shafilea Ahmed’s death and the inquest, hence the title. |
The Press Gang
Sandra Grusd
31cm x 91cm Scanned newspaper and family photos printed onto InkAided fabric and overlaid with text printed onto organza and bonded to surface. Machine quilted. Exhibited: Hanging Together 2010 |
Mont St. Michel
Janet Bevan
A4 A holiday photo Paint Shop Pro and printed onto organza. Hand dyed background fabric Kantha stitched. Image of Mont St Michel printed onto organza laid over. Some detail free-machine stitched. |
Seeing Red
Hilary Gooding
12" x 12" Digital images printed on fabric. Free machine embroidered and quilted. |
Appliqued Portraits
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
as played by Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey
Ann Beech
All the fabrics used are my own hand-dyes. Fabrics layered and fused onto a separate background. Free machine quilted to highlight the features, |
Father and Son
Gilli Theokritoff
Painted background, appliqued foreground; some of the scraps of applique from our children's clothing to further embed the feeling of family. Exhibited: Contemporary Expressions group work in Loch Lomond in 2011 Judge's Choice certificate at Harrogate Quilt Show. |
Carys and Spice
Margaret McCrory
25" x 29" approx Commercial, hand dyed and hand painted fabrics. Fused applique and free machine quilted. |
Katrina
Linda Forey
Fused applique from manipulated image in Photoshop. Exhibited: Beaconsfield Show, Montreal in May 2011. |
Portrait of my mother
Nicqui Willis
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Mixed Media
Pearl is a Singer
Chris Dixon
21" x 19" Made following a 'Painted Faces' workshop by Bonnie McCaffery. Archway is painted Lutradur. Exhibited: Pins and Needles Show, Newcastle Arena 2009 |
A Touch of Picasso
Cath Stonard
A4 Rag paper, painted with silk paint. Black knitting wool couched down with free motion zig-zag stitch and quilted with further free motion machine stitch. Inspired by my daughter, (who is far more beautiful than this!!!) |
Minus 35 Degrees
Jennie Wood
60" x 30" (portrait 16" x 16") Free motion embroidery, machine and hand quilting. Snow dyed cottons, tulle, silk, organza, original artwork, computer printed textiles and heat bonded ‘ice’ crystals. Exhibited: FOQ 2011 |
After van Gogh
Judy Stephens
A4 Photograph of large collage based on one of his self portraits using found objects including a string bag off oranges and magazine clippings of natural subjects, grass, trees, etc., transferred onto fabric and machine quilted. The idea being when Van Gogh was in one of his 'mad' phases he couldn't tell where his boundaries ended and nature's began. |
Salsa Dancing
Katrina Parris
12ins x 8ins It is made from hand painted fabric and applied nets. Free machine embroidery has been used to draw the figures. |
Applique
Feelings of Africa
Jenny Rolfe
153cm x 122cm Pieced and appliqued. Hand dyed Fabrics, painted bodies. Hot glue gun was used to make some shapes which were then painted. 1st Place Contemporary Large FOQ 2002 1st Place Machine Quilting FOQ 2002 Certificate of Commendation, Japan Quilt Grand Prix, Tokyo. |
Play today, Pay Tomorrow
Irene MacWilliam
50 x 58 cms Machine applique, free machine work, Markal stick footprints. Exhibited: Queens University Belfast George Washington Art Therapy Gallery, USA |
City Faces
Judith Barker
28 x 36 ins. Stitched over drawings, appliqued and machine quilted. A response to a flurry of quilt show challenges along the lines of "England's green and pleasant land". Reflecting on the fact that isn't the England most of us live in I wanted to celebrate city life. Exhibited in galleries in the south-west with the Sisters' Choice group. |
Our Lady of the Biscuits
Helen Howes
165 x 90 cm All cotton piecing, appliqué and free-motion quilted on my Bernina 730 |
Minerva at 10
Judith Barker
24" x 24" Machine pieced, appliqued, quilted. Exhibited: Anniversary exhibition at the Minerva Arts Centre in mid-Wales. |