I decided I would go to the Quilt Show at Malvern today, and so of course, I had a rotten night's sleep and was awake half the night. I wasn't exactly rushing out the door this morning and got there just before mid-day. I have to say, normally there are some really WOW quilts there, but this time those seemed to be a minority sector. Sashiko Samples - nah, not for me. Threads That Bind Me - some interesting entries, but again, not my thing, nor was ScrapYard. My mind just doesn't work like that! Some nice quilts but I really don't like to see everything long-arm machine quilted. I sound a right old misery don't I? Here's the link to the Show anyway and here are some of the photos I took.
Gosh, couldn't have made this - made me feel quite dizzy! As did the one below. Both cleverly done though.
A HUGE Sashiko sampler quilt.
These were pretty and must have taken a lot of planning as well as sewing. The giant-ness of the hexi's below made me smile.
Below: Entries for the Mills category. One lady had thought outside the box and done a still life with a big Pepperpot :) I really liked the one on the left here.
Did I buy much? Did I blow the budget? You'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out . . . Hope you enjoyed the wander round with me. I don't think I went last year, and the mixture of stalls had changed. No-one selling paper piecing shapes, or some of the more unusual stands I remember, esp. one specializing in different textured felts; very few books; instead several stands selling Doc Martins, handbags, and clothing . . . why? It's a QUILT show. Plus a chap outside had a marquee and was selling various wicker baskets.
Some gorgeous quilts there
ReplyDeleteLove the beach huts and the mills and those giant hexis.
The black and white certainly makes the eyes go cross eyed!
It was quite a mix. None that made me think I'd like to do something like that though.
DeleteThe hexi's and beach huts are my favourites. The wow flower is beautiful. I am not keen on geometrical shapes. I don't know how anybody has the patience to make a full size quilt.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a geometric mind either. With the full-size quilt, you just take it a bit at a time. I've got several on the go and when I get fed up with one, I work on another.
DeleteI like that first black and white quilt..and the Sashiko sampler one...but that is my type of thing!
ReplyDeleteI like the blocks on the last one
I love the way we're all different. It's the same with Art too - forget the blue square on a red background, I like lots of detail - the Pre-Raphaelite nature paintings are just amazing.
DeleteI love to look at the art quilts but I still love a traditional one best. I live in a semi rural area in Southern Victoria Australia and am hoping to get to a local quilt show next weekend, It will be interesting to see if the quilt‘fashions’ are the same over here. I have never made a hexi quilt, but will have a go when I finish a current ufo. Sending best wishes.
ReplyDeleteHi Jenny, I'm with you on the traditional design. It's like the American art quilts where they literally paint with fabric to make portraits and the like. Amazing, totally beyond my remit, and I'm still there back at historical patterns. I'll be interested to see what your local quilt show has on display. Hexi's are my fall back as I can sit on the sofa and make them into a quilt, a bit at a time.
DeleteLove the chicken banner in the last pix.
ReplyDeleteI agree, such fun.
DeleteOhhh, I love the lotus flower quilt, but that is quite beyond my capabilities.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Gosh, me too. I imagine the tones must be painted on, and the texture quilted.
DeleteI have a friend who does the optical illusion type of quilting. She's quite amazing...and so was this collection. All of them.
ReplyDeleteWhilst I admire the skills in making them, my mind just doesn't work that way and they jar rather.
Deletequilting has certainly changed over the years, from the traditional blocks I learned to the full on art creations of today.
ReplyDeleteFashions change don't they? I guess people like a different challenge too.
DeleteA lot of its artwork and original but some very pretty and clever quilts.
ReplyDeleteWhilst not everything to my taste, it was still a good day out.
DeleteLove quilt shows and bought some lovely fabric while at them, foo much maybe!
ReplyDeleteI am nearer the huge one at the NEC now, but don't really want to drive there.
DeleteI am like you I do not go for these modern quilts. Maybe at 78 I am old fashioned and enjoy the older type of quilt.
ReplyDeleteI can see the skills in the more modern quilts, but don't want to make one.
ReplyDeleteInteresting quilts, very creative. Not my style so much, as I like very traditional quilts usually. I'd have loved the wicker seller and Doc Martin's booth...it sounds so fun.
ReplyDeleteI love and admire handquilting but if I waited to handquilt my projects I'd still be back in the---90s? quilting that Amish looking first quilt I made at work one winter. I did hand quilt the wedding quilt I made when I got married finally--and we know how that turned out.[being married, the quilt was fine tho boring]: it is I think the only quilt I actually threw away.