So it’s my turn to write the Materials Girls’ blog.
I’ve started and finished three quilts this year so far. In style, all three are modern quilts and feature ‘improv’ piecing with free machine quilting.
The first resulted from a Zoom talk by Alaskan-based quilter Maria Shell. I’ve liked her work for some time so bought the book (ages ago now) but then did nothing with it. The opportunity to attend the talk arose during the current lockdown. This inspired me to get out the book and have a good look through it. Using up several small scrap bags of Oakshott fabrics, this small wallhanging is the result. The quilting is also based on a style Maria uses on her own quilts.
I’ve started and finished three quilts this year so far. In style, all three are modern quilts and feature ‘improv’ piecing with free machine quilting.
The first resulted from a Zoom talk by Alaskan-based quilter Maria Shell. I’ve liked her work for some time so bought the book (ages ago now) but then did nothing with it. The opportunity to attend the talk arose during the current lockdown. This inspired me to get out the book and have a good look through it. Using up several small scrap bags of Oakshott fabrics, this small wallhanging is the result. The quilting is also based on a style Maria uses on her own quilts.
The second quilt started life during a one-day workshop I taught for Region 8 of the Quilters Guild back in February. The blocks were made to demonstrate my ‘disappearing crosses’ technique. Using an Oakshott fabrics fat quarter bundle bought the last time I was able to go the the Festival of Quilts, and still on a high from the Maria Shell inspired quilt, I stayed with the same style of quilting, a different pattern in each space.
The third quilt uses the same fat quarter bundle (it was one the very large bundles from Oakshott) from which I selected autumnal colours plus a batik for the thin inserts. This piece forms part of my work the Material Girls exhibition later this year. Within the umbrella theme of ‘The Enchanted Garden’, my own inspiration is trees and leaves. The design source for this piece is tree age rings.