Trip to Bath

 Yesterday I went on a coach trip with Quarterjack Quilters from Wimborne to Bath to see an exhibition of Kaffe Fassett’s work from his book Timeless Treasures. There was a detour along the way to Midsomer Quilting in Chilcompton, near Radstock, Somerset. It has been a long time since I last visited this quilt shop, which has relocated to a unit at a farm in the village, which is considerably bigger than the previous shop. 

One don’t visit with purchasing fabric, even if you don’t have a project in mind! So here’s my purchases, only fat quarters, so didn’t break the bank.  

There was a lovely row by row quilt made of the local area in the workshop room.

Another couple of quilts were on the walls, this fishy one (in progress)

And this large one with small square blocks

We reached Bath at lunchtime (though we had our lunch on the coach journey). We were dropped off very near the Art Gallery for a timed ticket to the exhibition.  Before I saw the quilts I was blown away by this.

A beautiful Baroque style mirror, decorated with plates, tiles and pieces of broken china with porcelain flowers hanging from it, which was in the reception. You can see a couple of Kaffe’s quilts reflected in it. This lady holding up her phone features a lot in these photos. 😂

As usual Kaffe’s quilts are really colourful with simple shapes that makes the fabrics a feature.  They have been long arm quilted but it really isn’t a feature, the colours really shine.

His quilts were on the side walls but the end wall of the gallery were more mirrors, designed by Candace Bahouth, another American artist, who lives in the UK. 

I loved this mirror with blue china 

I took a close up to show pieces of Wedgewood and handles from cups and teapots 

Shells and pale coloured plates

A shrine on the wall with a display of animals in front.

And these repurposed china models

They were just beautiful. There were 2 more mirrors that I hadn’t seen in the reception on the background of Kaffe Fassett designed wallpaper

It was a colour overload but a lovely exhibition to see and lucky to see this before it closes on Saturday.