Welsh Quilt Museum

My pink whole cloth wall hanging is now in Lampeter in Jen Jones museum. I think the exhibition is going on until November. So I hope to visit the museum to see all of the quilts some time this summer. It will make a nice holiday.
This picture shows the quilt nearly finished some weeks ago. I have called it Gellyg y Mel Cymreig meaning Welsh pears and honey. The Welsh pears is a design very similar to paisley, but the pears have rounded edges. The honey is for the beehive patterns around the border.
I'm off to Duxford at the beginning of March to see the six poem quilts hanging up finally. There will be nine in Sandown in June. Do come and see!

Yesterday 6 of my students' poem quilts went off for the Spring Shows - there will be 3 more for Sandown as well. I shall go to Duxford in March to see them hanging. Here are a couple to whet your appetites!

 Andy's 'When I Grow Old'

Anne's Grantchester

Maria's quilts this saturday

Anybody living near north Herts is very welcome to come to the QG's Region 7's Area Day, where author Liz Trenow will be speaking in the afternoon about her book The Forgotten Seamstress. The fun day starts at 10am and is being held in Cottered Village Hall, which is situated on the Baldock-Buntingford road. Nice pub there too!

USA trip

Back from a great trip to western USA, where we visited Yellowstone, Teton mountains, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Carmel. And at least six quilting shops, all really lovely, selling different fabrics to each other. I'm afraid I bought rather a lot of fabric which I don't need but will make two or three more quilts.
I have also been to Belsey Bridge in Suffolk for four days quilting, no time for jet lag. I have finally finished the log cabin part of  a new quilt for our six foot bed. Two borders on and it now awaits the final applique border. This was all in the fabrics that I bought in the USA two years ago!
Last Saturday I taught some ladies how to make a really nice Xmas tree. I found the original basic tree on the internet, but I have gone further with it, surface decorating it to madness!

Welsh quilts at Lampeter

Today visited the Welsh Quilt exhibition at Lampeter in mid Wales. It is on till November so try and get to it if possible, it is really fabulous. Collected quilts by Jen Jones mostly in wool. So intricately hand quilted and beautiful. Also in the exhibition is a room full of Sandie Lush quilts, inspired by Welsh hand quilting.  Beautiful  quilts to emulate. Must get my stitches smaller!

FoQ

Been to the FoQ for a couple of days but as I was on the Trad Group Stands for a few hours I spent most of my free time looking at quilts rather than the stalls! Didn't buy one piece of fabric! Most quilts were good this year, but I preferred Viewers' Choice whole cloth quilt by Sandie Lush which was hand quilted by one of the best hand quilters in the country, to the Best in Show which was also a whole cloth quilt but machine quilted to death and no way could be used as a bed quilt because such quilts are like cardboard and not snuggly at all. I am so sad that hand quilting seems to be a dying art. Intricate machine quilting seems to be the in thing.

Maria's quilt

I have finished my Maria's quilt designed by Lynne Edwards for Liz Trenow's book The Forgotten Seamstress. And I have started a Pinterest page of other peoples that I have found there. There are others if you look on Liz's website https://liztrenow.com/category/marias-quilt/

I used William Morris fabrics as they seemed relevant to the period.

My quilt is here

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