Kate's Reversable Quilt

Kate has made a truly reversible quilt

using Kaffe Fasset fabrics .

She is showing the back of the quilt in the first picture.

It is made up of 2" squares.

(finished,so you start by cutting a 2.5" square).

The front are large 10" squares and everyone of them has a message

on them which quests at her Birthday wrote and

Kate then Hand Embroidered.

See previous post for details.

Wow, Kate well done!

Kate's Birthday Quilt

Bess loves quilts and of course, helping you look for names!

Tea and Cake

We were lucky at this month's meeting of Coven to be celebrating

two birthdays as our meeting date feel after both of them.

Now Kate is wonderful and makes a cake each meeting.

We have tea and cake in her wonderful

Victorian style Conservatory which looks over her

beautiful town garden.

Kate always plays 'Mum' too!

There were two cakes this time,

Coffee and Walnut or Cherry and Cream Sponge.

Beautiful! some had a slice of both!

(I can't talk because one of them was me!!!)

The years really fly by,

we have been meeting for over 12 years now,

what wonderful memories!

Jellyroll Quilt Top

Jane got a Jellyroll pack of fabrics and a Jellyroll book

from the Coven members for Birthday

and here is the quilt top she has made with it.

The jelly roll fabric made the centre panel

and she added what fabric she had to the border.

We all liked the 1950's feel of this quilt it's so

fresh looking.

Then there was the discussion about the back!

should it be a sheet or a pieced back.

We all agreed that you appreciate a pieced

patterned back rather than a plain sheet!

patterned fabric also hides some quilting

hic cups!!! not that we have those, do we?

See more quilts on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Wholecloth Quilt Quilting

Here, Liz is continuing to hand quilting her wholecloth quilt.

She is so close to finishing. What a quilt!!!

See previous post for the details.

Well done again Liz!

Wholecloth Quilt Facts

We all were absolutely blown away when Liz brought out

her wholecloth quilt.

As you can see some of the more avid members

amongst the group are not only admiring it but

counting the stitches!!!!

The wholecloth had been already drawn out for Liz

when she brought it and she has been hand quilting

off and on, each Winter for the last five years.

A real labour of love.

She has a corner to finish, bias binding and a label to do.

So the finishing post is near.

The wholecloth is then washed and the drawn lines

disappear.

What an Heirloom Liz.

Really well done.

Wholecloth Quilt

Tuesday night was Coven Quilters night too for me.

We have such a lovely get together, share and laugh so much.

Here is a detail photo of the middle of Liz's Wholecloth quilt.

It is cream/off white soft cotton and she has hand quilted it

with a light lilac quilting thread.

It is a large Kingsize wholecloth!

Click the photo to enlarge.

Gallery of Artists

Tuesdays are always busy @ The Gallery Dereham.

Here, Claire the resident Painter and Tutor is working away

in what is the Photographic Studio and Haydn is taking

photos of Marion's paintings, another Gallery artist.

(You can only just see her legs as she is holding a painting

square!)

I couldn't resist taking some photos as I have got my camera back.

It had to go in for repair, ooo I have missed it.

Thank you to Haydn, for taking it in and

Thank you, to Mark and his team at the

Norfolk Camera Centre

11 Nelson Place,

Dereham

for fixing it.

They fix allsorts of camera problems.

I saw 2nd World War cameras being take in to be serviced

while I was there, fascinating!

See more of what goes on @ The Gallery by clicking

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

Gallery Day 1st of March 2011

Lots of Mixed Media going on at the Tuesday morning session

@ The Gallery Dereham.

These are three of Pat's mixed textile trees above.

She has one more to do and then it is working on

the background fabric to give it the same depth of colour and richness

but still leaving the variation, so the trees shine.

'Grounding' them, as a fellow textile artist called Judy.

(She explains this so well).

Visit her blog at

http://judysfiberart.blogspot.com

See more of what goes on at the gallery and more

throughout this site.

Paper and Stitch

Inspired by Sharon I returned to paper and stitch.

This is a small sample 3" by 5".

It started off as brown paper, machined stitched and

soaked in water. You then remove sections and bits crumble off.

Allow to dry and then paint.

I then fuse to fabric and embellish with stitch and beading.

See more on my website

click

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A Wonderful Site to Visit and Stay!

I met so many wonderful people at 'Textiles in Focus'.

including Val who is one of the founders of

www.justhands-on.tv

a great place to view wonderful quilts, inspiration and videos.

You can browse and then become a member.

I spent hours viewing and enjoying myself.

take a look for yourself.

Lace Bowls

Chicks With Attitude

Fibrefusion Exhibition

Textile In Focus

Today Jenn and I went to Cottenham College near Cambridge to

see the 'Textile In Focus" Exhibition.

We go every year at this time and it was as inspirational as ever.

Thank you, to all the Exhibitors for your time, wonderful displays

and inspiration.

Above, is the very inspirational Sharon Osborne, her textile books and

demonstration pieces are so textural and wonderful.

She is an amazing lady and we bless her, for her

creativity and patience.

See more of what transpires from this inspiration,

on my blog and website shortly.

www.art2inspire.co.uk