A few festival of quilt photos.

I'm still working through my photos of this years Festival of Quilts held at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. I have lost my catalogue so I will give the quilt display number and the title. If you know who made any of the quilts please let me know and I will credit them on the post.

Quilt number 435 is titled 'Autumn Sampler'

Quilt 434 was called 'I love feathers' - I wonder why? I didn't take a photo of the whole quilt just detail of the quilting. The quilting was very much admired.

Quilt 204 'Fireworks' played havoc with your vision if you stood looking at it for too long

Quilt 214 'Black with a spot of White' was another of my favourites

Quilt 209 'Colourful Kaleidoscope' was very pretty. Unfortunately the photo of the whole quilt is a little fuzzy.

Quilt 237 'Bletchley College'

Quilt 230 'A Buddhist Dance' .

Quilt 229 'Clarice' was beautiful. I love Clarice Cliff designs and this quilt showed her style and colours really well.

Quilt 260 'Bluebirds Spring Song' This is another quilt that the photo didn't work as well as I would have liked.

I have one final batch of photos to post which includes some of the prize winners. Unfortunately it was very crowded around the prize winning quilts and getting enough room and the right angle to photograph them was a problem. For now I hope you enjoyed this selection.

Even more festival of quilts 2012 photos

I didn't realise just how many photos I took when I visited the festival of quilts in Birmingham UK back in August. Although I have done several posts about it I still haven't shown you all the pics. Unfortunately I lost my catalogue so can't give you the name of the quilt maker but I can give you the quilt number from the show and its title. If you know who made it please email me and I will add it to the post.

This one number 407 is titled 'Tuscan Landscape'. The colours really give it that hot Italian feel.

Detail from the quilt

Number 386 is called 'The Korean Colours'

Number 360 was a hexagon quilt called 'My Godmother's Flower Garden.' There were several hexagon quilts in the show.

The colours in this quilt were quite subdued but it didn't detract from the final effect. I loved the different grouping of the hexagons  which gave a different feel to different areas of the quilt.

Number 414 'Aurora's Dawning'. How did the maker manage to get all those points sharp?

Number 431 'Double Wedding Ring' This was one of a few quilts of this pattern on display.

Number 418 titled 'Mosaico de la "Casa del la Imagen" .

Number 427 was titled 'The Knot Garden'. I really liked this quilt but then I like Celtic patterns. I plan on making a Celtic knot quilt at some point in the future. (My list of must do quilts is rather long.)

Number 442 is 'Blue Ribbon Baltimore'.

I loved the different appliqué blocks in this quilt.  I particularly liked the little bird below.

The vase of spring flowers made me very happy.

Visitors at the show agreed that quilt 440 'Flowers Meet Stars' was very bright, happy and uplifting.

The final quilt for today number 445 is titled 'Galing Galing'.

I still have more photos and I will post some more soon. I hope you are enjoying the Quilt eye candy. I am really enjoying going back over my photos and seeing the quilts again. There were so many quilts at the show it was a little overwhelming.

Festival of Quilts 2012 part 5

I have been showing the photos I took at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham UK back in August. I still have a few I haven't shown you so here we go for the next batch. I am sorry but I have totally lost my catalogue so can't give the makers name but I will give the number and quilt title. 

This quilt number 375 is called 'Song of the Earth' The colours and detail were amazing and the scalloped edge worked really well.

Detail from the middle section.

This one number 368 titled 'Flower of 13 115 Pieces and Peace' must have taken a huge amount of time to piece together, the hexagons were so small.

Detail from the flower.

Number 369 'With all my heart' 

Detail from the centre panel.

and the heart block on the border.

Number 373 'Shiagari' means task complete in japanese.

Number 371 called '5850' was beautiful but had the effect of making your eyes feel blurry.

Number 398 'Birds of Paradise'

Number 390 'Tumbling'

I love the variation on the tumbling block turning the tops into pyramids.

Number 402 had quite a few people commenting that it was interesting that the pattern wasn't centred and then they read the title 'Out of Kilter'

Number 405 'Crazy Waves' (Stack 'N' Whack)

I still have a few more photos which I will include with posts over the next few weeks.

Now I need to get the car packed with all the stuff Lucy wants to take back to Bath for her final year. She picks up the keys for the house she is sharing with two other girls today so I can now clear the pile of her books, kitchen bits, printer, iron etc. from my dining room. It was a shame she had to move out of her accommodation from last year before she could move into this house as it has made space a little tight round here but as always we coped. She will be coming back with me as she doesn't start her year until the end of the month. So there will be another trip then with her clothes and personal bits and pieces. The weather looks good today and isn't supposed to rain so this should be a good trip. We also plan to do a spot of sight seeing while we are there.

Festival of quilts Part 4 photos

I'm not sure where the time has gone since my last post. I promised some more of the photos from the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. As I have explained before I have misplaced my catalogue so can't give you the names of who made the quilts but I can give the number and title. If anyone can supply the names I will add them to the post. The quilts are lovely to look at.

Quilt number 138 was titled 'Lichen' and made by Janine Visser from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In her email to me she said she wasn't sure whether to be flattered or annoyed that there were photos of her work on blogs. I think that you will all agree she should definitely be flattered. The piece is beautifully designed and made and deserves all the interest and praise that it has received.

I loved the detail in this quilt.

Quilt number 156 by Janet Appelby is called 'Vikings Beware'. 

Detail of the machine stitched thistle head.

I'm not very keen on snakes so quilt number 169 'Snake Goddess' had me squirming. You really got the effect of the snakes twisting and turning.

Quilt number158 'Fit for a King' had beautiful blackwork embroidery.

A close up of a couple of the blocks.

Quilt number 159 'Tree of Life'.

Quilt number 166 is called 'Hyde Park 1973'. I wonder if this is based on interesting memories of the music in the park in 1973?

Most of the photos to date have been of the art quilts. This one number 358 'Midnight Magnolias' is a traditional quilt. I love the fabrics used in this one.

Another traditional quilt 'Firenze Memories' number 378

Quilt 376 is called 'A touch of Welsh'. I have included a photo to show some quilting detail.

And one final quilt number 377 'Birds in the Forest'.

with a close up of the centre detail. The birds were beautiful.

I still have some more photos to share and I will do that soon but now I need to get back to my sewing machine and my current project as I am longing to get it finished. It's a mini quilt swap and I will share this with you very soon. I'm currently working on two quilt swaps but the second one is staying under wraps until it's completed. The one I'm working on at the moment includes embroidery.