Festival of Quilts 2019

The best part of the day - always - is the encounters with old friends. But there were things to see, too.

Works from the 40 years of the Quilters' Guild - these
(by Diana Harrison and Jo Budd) are from my formative years

 Eco dyeing was/is "big"....

India Flint's gallery

In  the "Natural Selection" gallery nearby - the 52 books
 made weekly by Alice Fox

Simplicity and complexity by Lotta Helleberg

"Did you see the pots?" people kept asking me. I did, and they made
me want to get back to stitching! By Fabienne Rey

Liz Hewitt's "Give Me Strength"

Mepuru by Caroline Bell

Inuit wallhanging from Sandra Meech's gallery

Sandra's Antarctic works on paper

From the bojagi gallery curated by Sara Cook, work by
Yoko Kubota 

"Silk Road" by Elizabeth Brimelow - strips of silk,
carefully tied at both ends ... a long thin piece

Another long thin piece (easy to store!) by Janet Twinn

 I went to the lecture by Michael James, but looked at his gallery first and was struck by the monochrome quilts. These were made during the time of his wife's final illness.

Detail showing how the quilting adds to the work

Recent, happier work - he explained how the fabrics were digitally
printed, based on photographs and drawings from India

Karina Thompson's gallery made a 3D labyrinth
out of her piece from the 2013 Saltaire exhibition

Leprous Hands is digitally embroidered

The Fine Art "Quilts" are usually contentious - and now it's become a "textiles" category! These are among those that appealled to me -

 Nearly missed the tiny gallery with five complicated quilts from the Japan quilt show. The detail of the work is astonishing -

Finally, my favourite piece(s), from the Pojagi exhibition, are these "collages"  by Marian Bijlenga - oil paint on used sandpaper -