Musings of a textile itinerant Quiltville's Quips & Snips!! A Group Gathering: Collar Piece: Nancy Nicholson Bold and colourful with moreish motifs of birds, cats and fluid forms, designer & artist Nancy Nicholson's work is highly illustrative and joyful to behold. Based in Kent, Nancy works predominantly in paper and textiles using her own designs to produce stitch kits, 3d 'interactive stationary' and one-off hand & machine stitched pieces. Nancy comes from a dynasty of artists with a rich textile bent. In brief, her Father, Roger Nicholson, was a professor of fine art texiles at the Royal College of Art and her Mother, Joan Nicholson, was involved in the Needlework Development Scheme in the 1950's (you may even be familiar with Joan's work for Golden Hands magazine in the 1960s & 70s?). "Initially when faced with this utilitarian object, all crispness and white suggesting constraint and stiffness, all I could see was an animal, the two buttonholes facing each other like two slant eyed angry rabbits. "Velvet is a favorite fabric of mine for machine stitching. Now there's a lovely thought!
Hollyhock Quilts Fan of MarketPlace wins a fair-trade quilt from MarketPlace: Handwork of India! Want to be the next winner? Fan of MarketPlace wins a fair-trade quilt from MarketPlace: Handwork of India! Want to be the next winner? Thank you to Lorene and Connie for helping to create this quilt! We just plucked the name of our lucky winner from our raffle drum full of entries. Thanks to all of you who bought chances to win this beautiful hand-made quilt. Your generosity will support programs in India that effect sustainable change for women and their families. Thank you also to Lorene Nyce and Connie Landis, who volunteered their time and made the quilt by hand from scrap fabric leftover in the production of MarketPlace: Handwork of India’s fair trade clothing. Are you a quilter? Want to be the next winner of a quilt? Visit our website, www.marketplaceindia.com, any time to purchase the clothing and home decor items featuring the exceptional hand-dyed fabrics you love. Like this: Like Loading... About MarketPlace: Handwork of India
a stitch in dye Teaginny Designs My Blog by Eleanor Burns « Eleanor Burns – Strip Quilter My son Orion has been after me for months to start a blog but since I had no idea of what a “blog” was, I was reluctant. I saw the movie “Julie & Julia” and finally understood what it meant to “blog”. This is my very first one so please bear with me, I’m not sure what to write about so I may ramble. For so many years my whole life has revolved around quilting and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Orion just gave me my calendar for the first part of the new year and I am already overwhelmed! I enjoy staying close to home a lot more these days so I can be with my 2 grandchildren. Guess I better get back to work. Happy quilting, enjoy the ride! Piece O Cake Blog
Blackbird Designs - One stitch at a time Weeknight Quilting Dresden Plate Quilting It has been a busy week (3 days of volunteering). I am hoping to finish machine quilting the Dresden Plate quilt on Saturday. There are 12 feathered wreathes all quilted and the scalloped edge around the Dresden Plates. I wanted a really classic style of feathers for this quilt (I'll go into more details on how when I finish the quilt). I am working on the background filler now (not such a classic style - for contrast). I am using wool batting for this quilt. The book I won from Wendy at Inky Threads came this week. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Tanglewood Threads: 2012 Scratchings The beginnings January 1 through 3 January complete. Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 11, 2012 The backside Housed in Katherine's lovely wicker case Posted April 2, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 My dye pots are a favourite A red letter day when Harry brought a girlfriend to the pond Posted April 23, 2012 Love those baskets Posted April 29, 2012 Posted May 6, 2012 Posted May 13, 2012 Posted May, 18, 2012 Posted May 27, 2012 June 17, 2012 June 24, 2012 July 1, 2012 A favourite Week ending July 7, 2012 July 12, 2012 Week ending July 29 Week ending august 12, 2012 Week ending august 19, 2012 Week ending August 26, 2012 Loved the whales that week. Week ending September 2, 2012 Week ending September 9, 2012 A wonderful week September 30, 2012 October 7th Week ending October 21...One of my favourite weeks scratching wise This year so far Love that cardinal One of my favourite stitchings with hurricane Sandy coming up the coast Week ending November 11, 2012 First snow Christmas Week