The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles
Region 1 (London
Virtual Quilt Show
Last Updated May 9th 2009
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.
The Lost Traveller’s
Dream by Alicia Merritt 2008, 60x60cm
From the Colourscape series, which portrays in a
semi-abstract and personal way my perception of cities, towns and villages. Made with a fused collage
technique including Bondaweb. Shown at the Festival of
Quilts and at Designer Crafts.
Serendipity
II by Janice Gunner. 130x70cm
Guinness and Rory by Rita Gallinari
Summer 2008, ca. 150 x 100 cms
'Guinness & Rory' - the family's two
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
Guggenheim by Kay Wellbelove
39x39 inches. Inspired by a photo taken
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand of
the
14" by 36" Commissioned by a friend as a present for
his wife to commemorate an unforgettable trip to
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
Serifos
Storm by Margaret Ramsay
Inspired by sudden September storm
over fishing harbour on
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
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.
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
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.
'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
40”
x 27”
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