Another Block for the Sampler Quilt

The number of blocks is slowly growing and with luck and some hard fast work some quilts will be ready for our exhibition in October. This one is called Card Trick.

Bredon Crafters & Quilters have set a date for their exhibition - it will be held on 31st October 2015 at Bredon Village Hall and doors will be open from 10.00 am until 4.00 pm.

For anyone reading this who doesn't know where Bredon is - it is a largish village in Gloucestershire, England.  We are situated on the lower slopes of Bredon Hill, which is at one end of the Cotswold escarpment.  Our village stands quite high above the River Avon in beautiful countryside.  We are fortunate that we are high enough not to experience the floods which have often ravaged Tewkesbury, the town nearest to us and famous for its floods.


Let's hope that by October we will have been creative enough to offer goods for sale, encourage admiration of our work and have a great time with talking to visitors about what we do.

We recently invited a local textile artist - Angie Hughes to lead a workshop for us and the result was everyone went home with a fabric bowl like the one shown here.


So another quilt block completed and all this traditional stuff is good for us and will lay the foundations for more artistic work later on.

After all we call our group Quilting Arts and already we have made inroads into artwork by painting and printing on fabric and currently we are adding pages to our Fabric Art Journals.


Journal Quilts was something else we have tried and will do more of later on.

The two shown here are made in a different way.  To the left is a fused landscape.  It's fabrics are bonded to a background and then print blocks with machine embroidery add the finishing touches.

The one below is painted on calico and embellished with Kantha quilting, applique and hand embroidery

Although we try our hands at lots of techniques perhaps the nicest thing about our groups is the social side of things.

We love to chat and enjoy getting together to work on similar challenges, encouraging each other as we go.

We always have so much we want to do and there is never enough time.

Another day I'll post some images and tell the tale about the crazy houses quilts and wall hangings that we made

Finally this last image is of my hand-made needlework box which I made as one of my assessment pieces for my city & Guilds Level 3 Patchwork & Quilting Certificate.

I love it and do not intend using it - I won't be sticking pins in it.  It's is simply to admire and value as something I'll probably never do again.