Advice for Quilter
Size: 280 cm x 230 cm
It was on a visit to Pennsylvania, US that Ingrid Huber's eye was caught by artefacts for sale offering Advice from Nature in the form of poems.
Ingrid explains...
Funny but also thoughtful advice was offered by animals, plants, landscape... whatever you can think of. I liked them a lot.
On the next leg of the trip, to IQS Houston, Ingrid's imagination was fired and a plan began to crystallise.
Here I got the idea about advice that might be given by the utensils I use as a quilter… On the flight home I made the first notes and within weeks I had the advice from sixteen utensils.
Back home, whilst researching Ilan Shamir's Advice from Nature, she came across Advice from a Quilt. Gaining permission to reproduce the poem, Ingrid's quilt design was complete!
Interspersed between the sampler-style colour blocks are Ingrid's own poems, crafted with gentle humour and offering pointers to help quilters honour their own talents.
This is one of my favourite quilts – it shows so much of my creativity. It's strange to praise myself, but I am really proud of this quilt!
