This quilt was made from an old patchwork hippy dress I had stored away. I had found it in a charity shop many years ago, it was great for this latest project. Well, the dress became the inspiration for the quilt! The vintage materials went well with the old Indian embroidery pieces. The border is […]
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Art Quilt – Birds
This is the second quilt I made over the winter months, most of it sewn by hand. My sewing machines are all kept in my small sewing-room/box-room, and really its just far too cold at the moment to sit through there, so here I am hand-sewing because its warmer through here! Again this design was […]
Art Quilts
Girl in Blue Dress & Thai Print The Girl in the Blue Dress is an old painting and was laid away, collecting dust for many years, I recently came across her again and decided to spruce her up a bit. She is an image I have painted several times, there is something about her that […]
Art Quilt – African
African Art Quilt This is another older piece of artwork rescued and turned into an art quilt. The image is based totally on an artwork I admired, (original by Tony Hudson). This one was first done during an experiment with fabric crayons, but they really didn’t give me the strength of colour I wanted, so […]
Girl with Cat
This art quilt is based on a painting by Franz Marc. The painting was done a few years back, and I had decorated the borders with fabric intending to insert it into a frame. It was left lying in storage and recently finding it again, I decided to give it a revamp and turn it […]
More Art Quilts
This quilt uses pieces of embroidery I did years ago, which then lay idle in a folder I hadn’t opened for years. Its fun to look out for colourful scraps of fabric from charity shops and carboot sales. The central motif for this quilt was found in a charity shop. I was also lucky in […]
Art Quilts
Art Quilts I took a fancy to making a small ‘art quilt’, and spent a week raking through a huge bag of scrap materials I keep. I hate sewing and therefore admire all those folk who love to sew and the skills they have to make clothes, quilts, etc. This one took me a week […]