Malvern Autumn Quilt Festival

 

I took myself off to the Malvern Quilt Festival yesterday.  It's not so much fun on your own, but at least you can go round at your own pace, and linger where you want to.  The weather wasn't very nice - a really heavy cloudburst-type shower on the way there and steady rain a lot of the way back, but fortunately whilst I was outside at the Fair, it was dry. I believe most of these mixed-media textile art pieces were by Nikki Parmenter, of Cheshire.  Very skilful and imaginative.  

"Gaia"

"Fade out One"

"Fade out Two"

"Flotilla"

This was made by another artist - loved the detail on the parrot and the Passionflowers.

Two beautiful colourful quilts.

An entry in the Machine quilted competition.  

Beautiful Lotus design, which has been beautifully coloured with fabric paints.

I should have read about these Lockdown quilts.  The Rooks and the colour-way were a feature in all of them, so I don't know if it's a group effort, where some of the blocks were given to incorporate.

Above and below: entries in the Traditional Quilt section. Gosh, the hours of work which went into these.  I think the red and pink one was titled "Insanity" or something similar.

The border on this one was very imaginative.

Had to be done - one of the WOW quilts as a backdrop for a stand.

More quilts made as backdrops for stands.

I bought some fabrics for patchwork cushion covers for the sofa, but from a different stall.  The local Hereford patchwork shop Doughtys was there with some real bargains, and they were doing a roaring trade.

Finally, all sorts on this stall. Kits for penguins, polar bears, dawgs, wabbits and brooches.  I bought a little kit for making 3 different sized slinky kitty-kats and a birthday present for a friend too.

So, all in all, a good day out, though the traffic was bad coming back through Hereford, and I was glad to get in.  My back has been sore the last couple of days, and Keith is still knocked sideways by whatever bug we have had the past few days.  He is really struggling to get around and like me, has a sore back.  We'll be glad to be over it.  I shall be abandoning him late afternoon to go and see Mrs Harris Goes to Paris with some friends.

Have a lovely weekend.  Kitten news soon . . .  I have booked not one, but TWO . . .