Quiltfest North
2023
2023
Region 13's Got Talent
There is a wealth of talent in Region 13 and each member offers something different. We selected 6 of our members and invited them to choose 3 of their quilts which showed their divsersity amd style.
Linda Bilsborrow
Somewhere to Hide
Linda is driven by colour and the interaction of shapes so quilting is an obvious choice for her. She enjoys the process of combining traditional techniques with surface design and machine quilting to produce her work. She takes her inspiration from a variety of subjects but more often than not it is the fabric itself that takes a piece forward. |
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Anne Gosling
Up the Garden Path
Anne has a passion for Japanese style quilts, particularly the work of Sylvia and Kitty Pippen. This was her first attempt at designing a wholecloth appliqué quilt, using Sashiko to define parts of the quilt. This was also the first piece she made using a dark background which she has gone on to use in many other pieces. |
Sweet Dreams
Anne had always wanted to design and make a wholecloth quilt. After hand quilting several wholecloth cushions, and doing a workshop with Lilian Hedley learning to draw feathers freehand, she decided to have a go at a cot quilt and this is the finished result. |
Japanese Fandango
This piece started life at a workshop with Pat Archibald to produce ghost images of fans using varying layers of net. The Japanese symbols were added using Markel Paintstiks and then handquilted because I can’t make a piece without some hand stitching! The piece is machine quilted and embellished. |
Fiona Macaulay Davies
Memorial Star Quilt
This quilt was inspired by a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral. It is made in memory of a dear friend who brought so much colour into Fiona’s life. It is hand dyed coloured fabric, foundation pieced and machine quilted, sometimes with a twin needle. |
Sew-A-Row Quilt
This is Fiona’s own design usng 4 traditional block patterns joined using a Quilt-As-You-Go method. In an effort to use up her stash two colour families have been used. It is machine pieced and machine quilted. |
Val Shields
Return from Eastbourne 2004
That year there was a bus company which just happened to be running a trip which served the AGM perfectly. Val persuaded them to let members of the Guild fill the coach! Some people were going to the Guild AGM and some were just having an early holiday. When the coach got back to Gresford, someone took a photo of the whole group! It was early days and Val had to send the photo to a printers to be transferred on to fabric! Soon it was possible to print at home using domestic printers. Another piece of history! |
Ripples not Waves
Two fabrics, each cut into narrow strips. one folded longwise and sandwiched between other and then can be manipulated creatively |
Autumn Seminole Sampler
Val made this quilt in Autumn 1988. It is an example of what was achievable once the rotary cutter, with its matching cutting mat and many rulers, entered the lives of quilters! The favourite hobby of many was revolutionised! Machine piecing with bare 1/4” seams became simple and accurate, and people gave up hexagons over papers! Life for many would never be the same again. |
Margie Jenkins
Fort Bragg Frenzy
This quilt derived from a class Margie did with her sister-in-law’s quilt group in Northern California. The tutor was Katie Pasquini Masopust, a well-known contemporary American quilter from that area. Her inspiration was a photograph of the coastal cliffs at Fort Bragg. Margie says that it was a challenge for her, but she feels it conveys the rugged nature of the coastline and the constant movement of the ocean. |
Into the Unknown
This quilt was designed and made in 2010 as a response to Margie’s mother’s diagnosis with dementia. At the time the family had little understanding of what that would entail for her, but knew it was going to be a difficult path to tread. Margie wanted to convey a journey with twists and turns and troubles, but with hope and love throughout. That is what it was for her. |
Funky Chicken
Designed and made in 2017 Margie was playing with using felted wool and wanted to do something bright and quirky. It was great fun to do, playing with bright colours, a variety of textures and whimsical designs. Margie’s background in embroidery was put to good use! Handmade with quilting on a domestic design. |
Paula Steel
Spirit of Adventure Quilt
Paula’s Spirit of Adventure quilt was placed first in the Modern quilt category of Festival of Quilts in 2022. The design came about whilst thinking about travelling post Covid and how exceptional it felt. She took inspiration from Art Deco travel posters; when foreign travel seemed both luxurious and rare. Creating a quilt with both movement and clean graphical lines, Paula hints at ships and trains. The fabrics used reflect the oversaturated colours of the Art Deco posters and hint at a tropical paradise passing by, . |
Perpetual Emotions Quilt
Paula’s Perpetual Emotions quilt was placed third in the Modern quilt category of Festival of Quilts in 2021. The quilt started as an experiment with the classic Drunkards path blocks and a challenge to create a design which had no repeating pattern and no real end point. The finished quilt has lots of movement and is reminiscent of the ups and downs of 2020/21, hence the name: Perpetual Emotions. |
Molly Brown
Woodland Glade
Inspired by the hexagon pattern 'Granny’s Flower Patch' Molly wanted to create an all over ombre of greens in clamshells. She started with light shades in the centre, blending out to stronger greens at the sides, and then earthy greens at the bottom and blueish greens towards the top.
The quilt is entirely hand stitched using 1¾ inch clamshells. In collecting the fabrics Molly had fun working in some novelty fabrics, like the spacemen and cockatoos. She made the clamshells into little units of nine. Then with the use of a design wall, she decided on the placement of each piece. They were then stitched into larger blocks, working from the centre out. The large blocks were stitched together to create the quilt top.
The quilting is minimal, just outlining some of the clamshells. Finally, the edges were turned in to neaten, as she didn’t want to frame it with a border.
Inspired by the hexagon pattern 'Granny’s Flower Patch' Molly wanted to create an all over ombre of greens in clamshells. She started with light shades in the centre, blending out to stronger greens at the sides, and then earthy greens at the bottom and blueish greens towards the top.
The quilt is entirely hand stitched using 1¾ inch clamshells. In collecting the fabrics Molly had fun working in some novelty fabrics, like the spacemen and cockatoos. She made the clamshells into little units of nine. Then with the use of a design wall, she decided on the placement of each piece. They were then stitched into larger blocks, working from the centre out. The large blocks were stitched together to create the quilt top.
The quilting is minimal, just outlining some of the clamshells. Finally, the edges were turned in to neaten, as she didn’t want to frame it with a border.
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