FOQ 2012

After a lovely day at Festival of Quilts, I find I took very few pictures. Yes I did look at the quilts (though I didn't buy a catalogue to match name to quilt), but most of all I enjoyed the chats.

Among the exhibitions, I loved Pauline Burbidge's new work, in her black-and-white vein with, in the case of the pieces about Lindisfarne Causeway, colour provided by sand from the causeway.

And Anne Worringer's work is terrific - she uses shibori and hand stitch. It made me very eager to get back to using fabric and stitch. Details of some favourites -

Elsewhere, these quilts caught my eye, but I don't know the names of makers - if you know, please tell me so I can credit them -

"Fabric Hunter's Shopping List" by Maggie Relph 

an example of "tone does the work and colour gets the credit"

grid with additions of intense handstitch; see better pix on the maker's blog (Marian Hall)

Sublime use of map markings, in the Graduate Showcase -

Contemporary Quilt members have their moments in the sun -

Linda Bilsborrow with her winning quilt (other CQ members did well in the Contemporary category as well)

Kate Findlay among her Hadron Collider series

Hilary Gooding gets a surprise presentation, in Kate Dowty's "Captured in Cloth" display

Back at the CQ@10 display (the quilts are based on a photo of a tin mine - as tin is the symbol of tenth anniversaries, and CQ is 10 years old this year) --- what is this in the corner --- a well-placed bit of mining machinery??? -

On the shopping front - despite efforts at damage limitation, I brought home three books, a big can of 505 spray, and (only) six spools of No.30 cotton thread. Very restrained, don't you think?