The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles  

Region 1 (London)

Virtual Quilt Show

Last Updated August 21st 2008

Quilts by members of the Guild in the London Area  (eagerly awaiting more submissions from Region 1 members, including exiles from Region 1 who have moved away.)  Please send a JPEG image together with your name and current Guild membership number and up to 50 words about your quilt, it’s size and technique to qgr1@yahoo.com. (You may also include a link to your website if you have one, but we cannot advertise quilts for sale).  Only one quilt per member at present, but you may ask to change the quilt at any time.

I'd Like to Be Under the Sea by Linda Seward

About 35 inches square. I made this wall-hanging for my newborn niece, Skyler. I designed the octopus myself and used printed fish and flowers from a variety of fabrics for the appliques. It is heavily machine-quilted, with flowers and leaves encircling the octopus to represent his garden. A real black pearl is hidden beneath each white scallop shell.

Persephone’s Pomegranates by Christine Restall

49 x 98cm, Recently shown at the Festival of Quilts as part of Colour FX Textile Art Gallery

Blown Away by Margaret Cooter

Inspired by and Aboriginal Painting of a desert garden, which had a feeling of small leaves being swept along by the wind.  This wall quilt consists of hundreds of tiny pieces of appliquéd fabric, loosely colour-grouped in seven sections.  It is intensively machine stitched around each of the leaves

Cut Above the Rest by Jane Steward

20 inches square.  Inspired by a piece of slashed cardboard packaging used to fill up a box of goodies I received.  Two layers of crinkled organza with a pieced layer of plain, coloured organzas sandwiched between them.  The layers were tied with metal threads, slashed and distorted.  The piece was mounted on Perspex to hold the distortion in position

 

A quilt for Charlie by Ruth Thomas

A machine pieced and quilted cot quilt [ 90 cm x 110cm] using Moda Marbles  and batik fabrics.

Charlie's mum is a New Zealander so the colours are based on the pau  [abalone] shell and the spiral or koru is a Maori

symbol for new  beginnings, life and growth.

 

The Wonder Pin by Jennifer Hollingdale

Juried into Quilt 2007 at the Festival of Quilts in August 2007.  Uses a variety of techniques including screen printing and ‘embellished’ with real pins

Five a Day by Catherine Corbishley Michel,

90x108 inches.  Design by Kaffe Fassett from Kaleidoscope of Quilts.  Made in Rowan fabrics mainly designed by Martha Negley with fruit and vegetable prints.  Machine pieced and quilted.  Exibited at Festival of Quilts August 2007 and at Sandown 2008 (Judges Merit)

Presence by Vicky Glyn

A feeling of spiritual presence in the midst of a secular busy world.  Of inner quiet in a noisy traffic-filled,ethnically diverse, commercially active modern-day city.  Over 1000 pieces using mainly recycled fabrics and diamond log cabin.  Machine stitched.  Exhibited in June 2007 at the National Patchwork Championships.

Hot, Hot, Hot by Doreen Strachan Mclean

Multiple layered, wool backing, snips of net, nylon, organzas, metallics, ribbons etc.  Top layer organza.  Design evolved on the sewing machine using metallic threads.  Areas burned away with soldering iron. (Detail on left)

Rose of Sharon by Evelyne Wheeler

93x95 inches.  My favourite technique of appliqué and traditional design, appliqué hand sewn and hand quilted.

Wetlands by Daline Kiff Stott

Made for City and Guilds part 1 with Barbara Weeks at Missenden.  Shown at Festival of Quilts in 2005.  Uses a variety of techniques including fabric printing and photo transfer

Offset Reflections by Carole Thompson

127x110cm

Kangaroo (detail) by A Cherille Mayhew.

The third in a series of Australian influenced quilts.  Shown at Art Quilts at Uffington in 2006 and at Morley College in 2007.  Uses a variety of techniques including bleach painting, fabric painting and machine and hand quilting.

 

Guggenheim by Kay Wellbelove

39x39 inches.  Inspired by a photo taken by Yann Arthus-Bertrand of the Guggenheim Museum viewed from above.  Slashed and Machine Quilted Silk

Greek Island Dreaming by Tricia Revest

14" by 36"    Commissioned by a friend as a present for his wife to commemorate an unforgettable trip to Greece. Background of raw edge strips placed onto a fusible interfacing and then ironed down. Machine quilting with silver thread to sew down the strips and emphasize the effect of waves and foam. The temple in the foreground drawn on the reverse of fusible backed fabric, fused down and quilted.

Cathedral Windows by Marianne Atterton

Made in Jane Stewards Evening Class to fill the space behind the bed in the spare room  24 x 56 inches

 

Wall log cabin  by Margaret Read

The quilt is 24" square and was made for the QG suitcase collection which was first exhibited at Lord's Cricket ground in 1998  

 

The cotton strips are built up on a 1cm vilene grid.  Some blocks were sewn by hand on holiday in Italy and it was quilted by machine.

 

Serifos Storm by Margaret Ramsay

Inspired by sudden September storm over fishing harbour on Greek Island of Serifos. Hand dyed indigo fabrics and threads,  machine pieced with some applique.  Machine and hand quilted with varying size thread and stitches  Overlayed with slashed silk organza and metallic threads  to signify the lashing rain.

Size 52 x 83 cm

African Medley for Janet by Margaret Scholey Hill

The printed fabrics are samples made for the African Market from 1906 to the 1960s and were found in Manchester.  Hand dyed fabrics highlight the printed designs.  The back of the cover uses modern South and West African, Indian and Indonesian fabrics and is also Hand embroidered   24x24 inches

Mumtaz Mandala by Pippa Abrahams

Inspired by elements of a floral pattern from the Taj Mahal. Mogul emperor Shah Jahan built the mausoleum in memory of his favourite wife Mumtaz. ‘Mandala’ , originally a Sanskrit word, can be translated as ‘a cluster of blessings’

I used CorelDraw and many stitched samples to develop the stylised forms used. They include the symbolic Lotus flower, Morning Glory and the Sun. My intention was to create a work that celebrates the joys and pleasures of life.

 

Pink Daisy Quilt by Lindsey Malin

Size 240cms X 199cms.
Techniques include patchwork, applique, and hand and machine quilting.  Dresden plate design used for the flowers, and quilt pattern based on traditional method of repeated motifs.

 

Sentinels of Summer by Mavis Haslam  2005

Stained glass applique, original design.  Machine pieced and hand quilted 23x32 inches.

Ripped! by Annette Claxton

 

142x97cm Machine pieced and hand and machine quilted

AMARANTINE by Paula Diggle

Picking up the range of colours of the amaranthus flower which are in the fabrics.  It uses the snow crystal block with Ohio stars at the corners.  It measures about 50" by 70".  100% cotton, machine pieced and machine quilted.  Made spring 2006.

 

 

Japanese Fragments by Maxine March

Made June 1999  Size: 40” x 48”

Made from a pack of indigo dyed and printed fragments given to me by a Japanese friend, applied to a calico backing with sashiko infill.

 

MOJACAR EVENING by Alicia Merrett

 

Size 112 by 133 cm

This is my interpretation of a view of a Moorish hilltown in the south of Spain. Mojacar is home to many artists, who gather in the cafes at night, and is frequently visited by discerning tourists, who love walking along its narrow and twisty streets, and eat and drink in its quaint restaurants   During the day the houses look very white against a deep blue sky, but in the evening, the colours change dramatically.

 

'Tropical Moondance' -  Anne Townsend
made recently for a son's 40th birthday. He's a doctor and the S.E.Asia Director of the Leprosy Mission. I wanted to show beauty emerging out of darkness. I used an internet pattern by Beth Ferrier.

Lady Limerick’s Topiary 2 by Jane Steward

 

Coloured organzas were layered to create the colours needed,    hand quilted in place on to white silk and trimmed back.  My first experiment using Paintshop Pro, with a photograph of part of the topiary at Hall Place in Bexley, Kent, used as the source of inspiration. A detail of the resulting image was then translated into fabric.

40” x 27”

 

 

 

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