The Third Half

It was only going to be two posts about my visit to Birmingham and Festival of Quilts but this has gone onto a third post!

I thought I would share more pics of the quilts that I liked from the Festival.

A couple of quilts in the Modern Category

 Above is The World is your Oyster! by Tatiana Duffie.  I really liked the texture of the quilting in the grey fabric.

This is Mod Strawberries by Margaret Lehmann, again it was the texture that drew me to this quilt.

On the Modern theme there was a gallery of quilts from Quilt Con 2017, which was held in the US earlier this year and these were the winners.

This is Lincoln, by Kim Soper.  The quilt was on the outside wall of the gallery and he really made a statement.

 This quilt is called Bling and made by Katherine Jones and shows the Princess cut of a diamond

This one is Cursive by Paige Alexander.  In the background you can see the lines of handwriting practice one used to do at school to perfect handwriting skills.

There are more modern quilts from QuiltCon that can be seen here.

I'm a member of a Facebook group call UK Quilters United (UKQU) and if you were at FoQ you may have seen ladies with small square badges with those initials!  There are a few sub groups one of which was the 365 quilt group.  I was unaware of this and later discovered there's a postcard group which I've since joined!  Anyway the 365 group had a gallery of their rather large quilts and lots of small quilt block bunting in a rather small space so it was difficult to take photos.  However one of the quilts was hanging on the outside wall

 And a view inside.

The blocks in the quilts were 3.5"or 6.5" square, quite a feat to design and put together!

In the South West Textiles Group was something I could not resist taking a photo of.  These two ladies relishing the sight of an afternoon tea, with chocolate cake, which I thought was really clever.  Its called Layers of Temptation by Lydie Gardner.

Some more quilt creations that I took photos of

This was the Tapestry of Life by Mavis Walker

They look a bit odd but look again, fabric, buttons, measuring tape, skeins of embroidery thread, really fascinating.

Unfortunately I didn't photograph the number of this and I can't seen to find the description that matches this in the catalogue, but if I do will edit this post.  I can only describe this as a hamster wheel, albeit that its a beautifully colourful and quilted one and it fascinated me.

There was a gallery of picture on A5 canvas called Portrait Shuffle, which I'd only read about a few weeks before.  People were invited to buy a canvas to decorate how they wished and the canvas would be swapped with someone else's.  This was a fundraiser for Save the Children.  One artist who was showing what she made with her canvases was Sue Stone (I think - I didn't take a photo of the description beside the exhibit) who made several variations of her face.  I like the one on the top left with the glamorous Grace Kelly look but they were all interesting.

Lastly I took a few photos of a gallery of Kumiko Frydl's work.  She has made miniature quilts that have been winners in previous years at the Festival.  Just amazing work.

That's just a little of what I saw at the Festival of Quilts and hope you found my exploration enjoyable.