Happy 2nd Blogiversary to me! I'll be drawing the winner of my giveaway tomorrow so you have time to enter if you haven't already. Click back to the original giveaway post
here, or enter at the end of this post full of yumminess. Good luck, now sit back and enjoy some wonderful quilts.
Two of the lectures I attended at the Quilters' Guild conference last weekend were particularly inspiring.
Christine Porter (who will probably be familiar with from
The Quilt Show spoke on tessellations and patterns in pavements and illustrated her talk with some pictures of stunning tiled floors in cathedrals here in England and others in Italy. She has published a book about these,
"Viva Venezia" She had two of her quilts with her so that we could get a closer look. This lovely one of irises was criticised by the quilt police for focussing too much on green!
This is her floor tiles sampler quilt, with a close-up of one of the blocks, isn't it wonderful?
The work of the other quilter who I found especially inspiring was already known to me as I had seen some of Susan Denton's work at Festival of Quilts last year. A self-taught quilter, Susan obviously enjoys the process of combining colour, fabric and shape. She has developed a lot of bargello style pieces, such as Musk Melons From Samarkand below and has now moved into wonderful landscape quilts with large hand quilting adorning them. It was a delight to listen to her describe her quilting journey, closely related to her life journey and to her travels. Oreiginally from Australia, she lives in beautiful Penwith in Cornwall and much of her current work is inspired by the landscape there. I'll let the quilts speak for themselves:
Towednack Treasure
and detail
Treasure
Burren
and detail
Musk Melons From Samarkand
Green, Greener, Greenest
and details
Auvergne Potager
and detail
St Ives Harbour 2
and details
I hope you enjoyed all those wonderful quilts and that your computer coped with this photo heavy post. Don't forget to enter my 2nd blogiversary giveaway:
The dress code at the QGBI Gala Dinner was black and white. What is your favourite combination of colours and why?To see what you can win, click back to the original giveaway post
here. Good luck.
