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Royal International Pavilion,
Abbey Road, Llangollen LL20 8SW The Nineties Collection. ......... ........and More Exhibition of quilts commissioned from Quilters' Guild Members working during the nineteen nineties Wednesday 10th - Sunday 21st February 2016 Open Daily 10am - 4pm Free entry and free parking |
Museum and Art Gallery,
Parade Street, Llangollen LL20 8PW
Wrexham Quilting Circle Showcase Tuesday 2nd February - Tuesday 1st March 2016 Open Daily 10am - 4pm Free entry |
Royal International Pavilion,
Abbey Road, Llangollen LL20 8PW Trading Day Sunday 14th February 2016 Open 10am - 4pm Admission £3 - light refreshments available Click here to see invited Traders |
Quilt Fest is now being held in the Royal Pavilion in
Llangollen. I was there on Wednesday doing my demonstration and talking to the
trickle of visitors who came to look at the quilts. There are many lovely quilts
on display, each one being 24” square, and they cover a vast range of styles
and techniques. The quilters who made the original quilts for the ‘Nineties
Collection’ were asked to make a second one so I was particularly interested to
see both quilts by the same maker, to see
if they had progressed and how
they’d progressed. Here are just some of the quilts on display and there are
plenty more to see including those in the Museum exhibition. Come and see them!
Here are my two quilts on the right alongside those of
Gwenfai Rees-Griffiths; I am in very good company!
I can see from my black and white quilt that I was in a
transition period with my work. I was at the tail end of my interest in Jacobean-style
quilts and beginning to look at grilles and grids which would eventually lead
me to the Garden gate series for which I was well known. This quilt was
fastidiously hand applique and hand quilted but just look at the difference in
my work now. I am sticking ready-bonded fabrics in place and machine texturing
them to hold them down and add detail. It
took a while longer for me to realise that it is colour that excites me most!
Talking of colour, there is something else brewing in my
studio. I seem to be going through a phase of ‘I always wanted to have a go at
that’ and decided to do just that for this tessellated pattern. It flows quite
nicely from my Picket Fence quilt because it uses similar techniques.
The tonal blocks
which I showed last week are mounting up slowly. Every time I sit at my machine
I do two of each value and will continue doing this over the long term until
the bits are used up. Only then will I decide what I am going to do with them
and how I am going use them.
And a rather smug PS!
When I used to live in Sychdyn, and teach in my workshop at home, I used to host
an annual Theatre Clwyd night, which was much enjoyed by the many people who
attended. I once asked the ‘powers that be’ at the theatre if I could put on an
exhibition there. Their response was no because my work wasn’t art. That hurt a
lot! So it is with great pleasure that I have had a piece accepted to hang
there from next week and here it is! Perhaps I can believe I am an artist now.
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