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A Child’s Bliss

Quilt 2010 50 x 50 cm

"The atmosphere of the days before Christmas touches something deep in me, the memory of a blissful experience, more than 60 years ago. I was about four years old; it was Christmas’ Eve, December 24. Not until the evening did I get to see the Christmas tree, after waiting the whole day. Then the door opened and what I saw there was a room filled with light, so much lighter than the real light of the candles in the tree. A music box played a Christmas carol and this was mixed with the sound of little bells tinkling… I was a very happy child!"

BLUE HOUR 

Quilt 2019 

192 x 125 cm

 

Materials:

Cotton (Oakshott Fabrics, Moda Grunge)

Wool

Textile Paint (Stewart Gill)

 

Techniques:

Patchwork

Longarm Quilting

Felting

Painting on Fabric

 

Inspiration:

The blue hour is the period of twilight in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage when the sun is at a significant depth below the horizon and residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue shade, which differs from the one visible during most of a clear day.

I experienced this blue hour in the morning before sunrise in the Austrian Alps. It is just magical and enchanting.

https://bilderleben.de/#!jig[1]/FL/50661587486

 

Aurora Productions chose this work to print a card, please take a look:

https://aurora-productions.com/het-blauwe-uur?manufacturer_id=166

 

You can see more work of me also published by Aurora Productions:

https://aurora-productions.com/index.php?route=product/manufacturer/info&manufacturer_id=166

"I'm so/sew pleased to share with you a peaceful, pieceful and loving finish to my 20 month project... Your gorgeous Oakshott cottons were used as the solid backgrounds in each quilt block. Piecing these blocks on vintage sewing machines, oftentimes with Pixie's help, brought me bits of daily peace and love. Machine quilting a great big heart and echoing the peace sign continued to provide peace and love during this trying year. I found my heart, soul and psyche smiling while working on this project. It is now on our bed, and we cover in peace and love each night".

Pattern Design Bethanne Nemesh
Size 46 x 38 inch
Quilted with a Bernina Q24

"It is made entirely from Oakshott fabrics and measures 84” by 90”.  It is very simply strip quilted by machine because I didn’t want the quilting to detract from the rainbow of colour.  The quilt is all my own design. The fourth photo is of the reverse of the quilt which is an abstract patchwork of leftover Oakshott fabrics.  It is a lovely design in itself."

"My Scandinavia quilt, based on the ‘Barstow Quilt’ pattern by Carolyn Friedlander from Robert Kaufman. The original quilt was a cot size so I doubled the size of the strips and kept adding more until I got the size I wanted. I was able to make a small cushion out of the leftover bits (I hate waste). 

And now I have just had to order a little more Scandinavia  fabric in order to make a version of the appliqué by Lynn Templeton in your Inspiration gallery. This will hang above the headboard. Eventually. The book is ordered!"

Miniquilt

Patchwork blocks sewn and cut apart again for no apparent reason - simply because I can. Mixed well and sewn back together.

17 x 17 inches
Quilted with a Bernina Q24.

3.5 inch mini by Sarah Kirtland using Derwent

This was Helen Butcher’s Block of the Month pattern which I completed in August 2021.

I like geometric designs and Helen’s Foundation Paper Pieced patterns were easy to use. I chose to make the larger of the two options we were given. Each block measures 4 inches finished.

 

Each 6” block in this quilt was entirely hand-sewn. It was a Block-a-week (49 of them) by the Bramble Patch, UK in 2018.

Each week we had to draft the block on graph paper from a diagram and accurately cut the pieces. Week one was straightforward and as the weeks passed, the blocks became more complicated and with smaller pieces.

I joined the blocks by machine and had it professionally quilted. It remains one of my most favourite quilts. Approx 45”square.

 

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!

I have pieced four baby quilt tops with scraps from the wedding quilt.

 

Black and White Bag by Whaus Korea

Images courtesy of Kim Bok-Hee of

https://www-whaus-co-kr.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ko&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Their P&Q leather handles are the best I've ever seen.

Black and White Bag by Whaus Korea

Images courtesy of Kim Bok-Hee of

https://www-whaus-co-kr.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ko&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Their P&Q leather handles are the best I've ever seen.

Before I moved to France and when I was a member of Montpellier Quilters I heard Julia tell of the match between Oakshott fabrics and Liberty prints so when a friend asked me to make her a quilt that is what I used.  My friend is not a quilter but I wanted her to be part of the process so we spent a joyful afternoon scrolling through your website choosing fabrics. I thought you might like to see the finished quilt and know that it was inspired by Julia.

Bed Quilt by Laureen Bedell

 

Broken Star by Ingrid Huber