These completed compositions started life at the Nancy Crow strip-piecing and restructuring workshop which I was fortunate enough to attend in May 2022. Freehand cutting was used for all these quilts. The emphasis in composition 4 was to be bolder and to build on the fluidity and concentrate more on the lines in the composition….
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Day 1 – 3 introductory exercises The first step was to sort solid colours according to value matching them against a five point grey scale ranging from light grey, medium light grey, grey, medium dark grey and very dark grey. In the next step we made white and black strip sets which we subsequently made…
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#Cottonandbourbon (Audrey Esarey) description of the Crow barn workshop experience perfectly matches my own. She says in a recent post on instagram (June 2022): “People would often tell this place was magical, and it was difficult to know why until I saw it for myself. Located on 100 acres in Baltimore Ohio, there is no…
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This quilt was a CQL challenge called “Close to Home”. It was based on a photograph I took of one of the swans I was observing during the first COVID19 lockdown.
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Strip piecing is a technique that I have used quite a bit, from Jan Hassard’s Dazzling diamonds, Ricky Timms’ convergence style quilts to the Victoria Findlay Wolfe “Star Storm”pattern, Irene Roderick “Voltron” improv class, Peter Bryne’s “Cityscape” Carly Bryer Fallert’s “Illusion quilt” and the classic “Lone Star”.
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This blog posts illustrates some of my work that features raw edge appliqué and shows the photograph that has been used to make the art work.
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In this workshop I learned about making improv circles and curves. I also learned about the braided block technique.
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In late summer 2021 Heidi Parkes ran a Vignettes quilt-along on Instagram which I decided to take part in.
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During 2020 /2021, whenever it was possible for “in-person” classes to be arranged I was completing the surface design course at Committed to Cloth which was taught by Claire Benn and Jo Lovelock. I have 4 completed quilt projects which were begun at these workshops, and I have a pile of fabrics which have yet to be utilised.
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