My
penultimate project is due in on Tuesday and is not quite finished,
much to my frustration. I am discovering that textile art finished to
the quality I want is very time consuming, and I could quite happily
spend another month on this piece.
The starting theme was
Landscapes, but the discovery of crazy patchwork mid way through the
project led me down some unexpected paths. And here is the end result.
It's a crazy quilt based on the Green Knowe books, by Lucy Boston. I
created a special piece for each of 16 patches using a variety of
techniques; cross stitch, fabric crayons, printing using a pc, crewel
work etc. I then used fabrics suggested by the books, especially The
Chimneys of Green Knowe where patchwork features in the story. I
included velvet and 'satin', printed cottons and linen. The photos show
the patches in blocks of 4, then all sewn together. As you can see I
haven't managed to embroider all the seams, and I have ideas for further
embellishment. Backing and binding would also be desirable but way out
of reach for Tuesday!
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| Topiary and Roger and Toby's patches |
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| St Christopher, Alexander and Susan and Jacob's patches, the peacock's tail feather |
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| Oscar, Ping and Ida and Linnet's patches with topiary animals |
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| Tolly's rocking horse, Neptune the carp Chinese style, the witch ball and Hanno the gorilla |
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| the whole quilt, as yet unfinished but you get the idea! |
Oh how lovely! As a fellow quilter and Green Knowe fan, I think this is wonderful. And now I want to make one too. ;)
ReplyDeleteI particularly like how Roger is done in a style he would have recognized.
This is absolutely wonderful! I think my favorites are the rocking horse and Alexander's flute, and all the topiaries. Brilliant work!
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