Signs and Symbols

This is my "Signs and Symbols" quilt

This is my first time to add photo to the blog and the quilt is text challenge

Bella

Autumn
Making quilts is better than filling in my tax return form - due at the end of this month, so I have made my Autumn quilt.
When I was in Geneva in September visiting Chantal, and teaching her group, I took a load of photos of the pumpkins in a yard.

I made a small Journal Quilt for the UK Contemporary Quilt Group 6' x 12"

I was pleased with my small JQ so have made a bigger International threads Quilt

I used Photoshop elements and made some drawings, I used Split Print to make the photograph bigger

Here it is in progress

and then finished

The colours look different as the second pictures are taken in electric lighting

Gillian

Afghan Square Quilt

Here is my finished Afghan Square Quilt
The
Gillian

Signs and Symbols - Gillian

I find working to a smaller size much better - not particularly because of the size but there is less pressure - at 40cm x 80cm, if it is not a great quilt, it doesn't matter, I feel I could easily do another.
I felt inspired to get going with the long overdue challenge
Signs and Symbols
I couple of years ago, whilst in the carpet museum in Istanbul I photographed some carpets with the information next to it, explaining what the symbols mean.
I made some drawings of the symbols and used my Interchange Applique technique.

You may have heard that, in Yorkshire, on Boxing Day we had some devastating floods. It has caused chaos and has been so sad to see so many homes ruined. My quilts were hanging in our local quilt shop, as part of a small exhibition. The water came into the shop to waist high and several of my quilts got very wet. They were in very dirty muddy water for 24 hours! They have surprisingly  washed well.

We spent the next few days helping to clear the shop etc. Elaine from the Quilt Cabin gave me some fabric ( the type and colours she knows I like) for helping so I wanted to use this fabric to make my next quilt.

So, although it is a signs and symbols quilt it is also a Hebden Bridge Flood Quilt, at least that's what it will remind me of.






Gillian

Signs and symbols -- Kathy

For some reason I've been having a hard time deciding what to make for the "signs and symbols" prompt.  When the answer finally came to me I felt really stupid -- it is so obvious!!  why didn't I think of this sooner??

For many years I have been making quilts in a format I call "postage stamps" because I make a bunch of tiny "quilts" and then sew them together in a grid, and each little quilt is not much bigger than a postage stamp.  I love this technique and return to it every now and then, and what could be better than to use the alphabet for the theme?



You can read about my other postage stamp quilts HERE, on my other blog.

Revision of schedule, again

This is the current state of the schedule for assignments: 

(we are supposed to be working on Eti's assignment "Signs and Symbols", and have left off the October assignment 'florals')

Bella (give new guidelines SOON) 
Uta (give new guidelines by end of February 2016), Barbara (give new guidelines by end of June 2016), Gillian (give new guidelines by end of October 2016), Margaret (give new guidelines by end of February 2017)Kathy (give new guidelines by end of June 2017)Eti


... unless something changes with regard to membership of group!

International Threads on youtube

Gillian was interviewed during the Maastricht show and now has an appearance on youtube, speaking on behalf of International Threads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFMgYZ8q6lA

Take a look!

Signs and Symbols

Ok - I am happy to admit here and now that I have not even started working on the Afghan square challenge. Nor do I have an idea worth mentioning. But hey! I finished the quilt for Eti's Challenge Signs and Symbols.

Quilter's Curse

These past weeks have been a plain hassle in my real world job - I'll spare you the details, but it has not been pink clouds and pixie dust. Just hard work and loads of it. And no quilting. At all. And when I did have a chance to sew - I messed up.

Usually I don't swear or curse ( ok, I'll say "scheisse" on and off) but that's it. But these past weeks I would have, if I had had the slightest hope of turning anything for the better.

Afghan Square
Next week I have a quieter week due to some teaching being cancelled so decided I needed to just get on with the International Threads piece that I have moaned so much about. I thought I would photograph it as I went along.
The piece lends itself to do traditional patchwork, but I can't do that - never have been able to, so decided to take the approach that I know, and will paint and print my piece.
I have drawn it out on my calico, and will paint and appliqué the women, I have made some printing blocks and have done the appliqué at the bottom.
Now I am going to print the background - lets hope it works.
Gillian