tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72561549361387714192024-03-10T02:46:37.594+00:00Little Welsh Quilts and other TraditionsSome little quilts in my gardenLittle Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-33122750663256534792016-08-24T09:28:00.001+01:002016-08-24T09:28:49.203+01:00Admiring Australia!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In my last post on British patchwork traditions, I mentioned that exciting work is going on in Australia at the moment and here I must mention someone who I have never met, but whose work and quilting philosophy I find refreshingly different. She is Marg Sampson George, an Australian quilting inspiration and I do wish her influence would spread beyond Australia and land here on our little island?<br />
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Of course the quilts inspired by Marg are made in a very different climate than that of our misty shores and this is what I love, the fact that they are traditional yet reflect the time and place where they are made!<br />
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In March last year there was an exhibition of her and her students quilts at Quilts in the Barn. The work is joyous and innovative and draws
heavily on British traditions - Averil Colby's book is apparently Marg's
favourite! However, no one could confuse these quilts with that of
19th century England. They are colourful, zany and altogether magical
and no two pieces are remotely similar! <br />
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The quilts Marg's students make are guided by their personal choices of fabric and placement and are very different to an enormous amount of quilts all based on the same design
made with mostly reproduction fabric. No one should decry the effort
and workmanship that goes in to the making of these reproductions and of course every
quilter adds something of herself to the mix, but it is such a change to
see work that is so individual yet not "modern" as in art based!<br />
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Just as an example, the picture below is of an old English quilt which has been very much copied and/or adapted and the majority of those made stick very closely in colour and pattern of the original - <br />
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but this is how Marg's turned out -<br />
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How wonderful is this?<br />
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Marg has a new book out which I would heartily recommend and this coming from one who now rarely buys a quilting book. Here is the <a href="http://www.quiltmania.com/patchwork/TAKE-AN-ELEMENT-SEEING-THE-POSSIBILITIES-ART555941">link</a>. <br />
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Updating tradition is something dear to my heart, but not so that it is unrecognisable? This has always been my aim when making and designing both embroidery and quilting projects and I hope that my designs draw on our rich British tradition of textiles, but by using fabrics of our time, I am pin pointing where and when they were made for the future! I know that it is increasingly difficult to buy fabric that does this, but it is possible and this should be actively encouraged and included in any lesson or course on the craft.<br />
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Why do I feel so strongly about this? Well reproduction fabrics are confusing, they can be produced many times and give no clue where in the world they were made or where they are used - it could be Australia, UK, Holland or North America, so if you use them, no matter how skillfully, no one will be able to tell where they were made or by whom?<br />
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Then they are the colours! Fabrics now are made for the international market and look quite different depending on the light of that country. In the UK, colours that look wonderful in Australia, can look garish here? <br />
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We know of course that commercialism has taken over and now patchwork and quilting is big business. There is no turning back from this, but it has changed my beloved craft immeasurably. The upside is that many more people participate but there are so many downsides that I cannot begin to list them.<br />
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Brexit is very much on our minds here in this country at the moment and no doubt will be the reason for all sort of excuses for economies and cut backs! It will certainly make imported fabric and all the gadgets that are now deemed essential for making more expensive? So perhaps this would be a good time to stop buying new and use what we have and so return to the ethos of the craft! After all many of us are initially attracted to it because we enjoy the thought of using up and re-cycling, maybe we should stop buying so much and start using up? Struggling with not quite enough fabric to finish a certain area, very often forces us to make innovative decisions and that can lead to much more interesting and less co-ordinated quilts being produced.<br />
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It's a thought?<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-38069208682860744312016-07-18T16:28:00.002+01:002016-07-18T16:41:08.859+01:00British Traditions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
British traditions and what we stand for are very much in our minds here in the UK at the moment, so perhaps this is a good time to think aloud about the traditions of patchwork and quilting in this country? <br />
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I am a traditional quilter, though I don't belong to the official group within the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles, because when I saw a display of their work at the Festival of Quilts what struck me then was though it certainly was traditional, it was predominantly American block patchwork traditional and reproduction fabrics were used extensively! You may well think that there is nothing wrong with that, as most of us start making blocks, but I was looking for something that celebrated the traditions of patchwork of this country, not that of the USA, which I feel has quite enough coverage already!<br />
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Because of our history of trading with the Far East and then our industrialisation of fabric manufacturing, we were a great and original influence in the world of patchwork and quilting. Our fabrics and traditions of working were carried to the New World and developed there, only to return here as an American invention. American Block patterns are great, they are practical, they were developed for ease of working in difficult circumstances, they are addictive and they have names, which is a brilliant marketing device in itself! However, block patterns were used in quilts and coverlets made in this country many decades before they appeared in America. You have only to study the Sundial Coverlet in the collection of the V&A, dated 1797, to see this?<br />
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The above picture is of a section of the Sundial Coverlet and below are some images I have saved for reference. I apologise for their quality, but think that they are of interest and as inspiration for updating the tradition? The first two are quilts held by the National Trust and the others are from the Internet. All display interesting formats and old techniques!<br />
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We in Britain of course are surrounded by so much history that we take it for granted - that is a fact which we all know and tend to dismiss. We used to be the centre of an empire and so have been exposed to influences from all over the world. We have excellent higher education art and design courses which encourage students to seek new and different ways of doing things and draw inspiration from world wide sources? Perhaps these are some of the reasons why we neglect our own traditions or consider them not exciting enough?<br />
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Then of course there is the problem with books! Unless traditions are recorded and promoted they die and though we have a very active publishing industry, it is highly commercial and needs to appeal worldwide and in patchwork and quilting terms, that means North America! Anything British is considered too niche, so authors are encouraged to embrace many different design sources to appeal to the widest market. Publishers are not interested in promoting their own country's traditions, that isn't considered commercial and they are probably right - they do actually sell more by widening the net, so British traditions are practically ignored, or if some do creep in they tend to fairly simple because again, books tend to be aimed at beginners, because that's the largest market and is also the easiest to cater for!<br />
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Now through the Internet it is very easy to follow trends all over the world and I am greatly encouraged to see that other countries, Australia being a prime example, are leading the way in exploring our British traditions. It is wonderful to see how they are using, for example, English paper piecing, something I really thought had died a death and wasn't mourned by me, and producing the most exciting work in fabrics and colours that would blow the mind of Averil Colby, on whose books they seem to draw much inspiration.<br />
I just wish there was similar original work being carried out here? Perhaps there is and I am missing it? <br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-26033098977343606032016-07-15T10:44:00.001+01:002016-07-15T10:44:06.966+01:00Mary Lloyd - the quilting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As promised in my last post, this one is going into a bit more detail re the quilting methods and motifs. I am sorry it has taken so long and do hope you haven't forgotten this wonderful quilt.<br />
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The quilt is large and almost square, measuring 261 x 264 cms. and as the quilting echoes the patchwork in the middle of the quilt, we who studied it, think that it would have been quilted on the patchwork side rather than on the reverse. <br />
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I have manipulated the original website image at the expense of the colour, in an attempt to show the quilting pattern more clearly and have heightened the contrast in the images I took myself to show some of the detailed quilted motifs.<br />
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In the main decorative part of the quilt which contains the central panel, surrounded by the leaves, bows and cornered by the four corner baskets, a large double circle filled with spirals is the main feature. Inside this circle are leaves and berries, with the appliqued leaves outlined quilted, as are the border of triangles surrounding the central medallion.<br />
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This very typical curved leave is quilted over the centre medallion -<br />
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These are the outline leaves and filling motifs surrounding the leaves -<br />
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There is quite an area of cross hatching which isn't always present on earlier Welsh quilts, however I am wary of saying this as we really haven't that many to study to be definitive.<br />
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I am adding these other images in the hope that those of you who study Welsh quilting will gain inspiration from them. I apologise for the quality of some, but I think they might be useful as you are still able to study the motifs.<br />
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You will see how intensive the quilting is, but I think that at the beginning there was simple plan and once the main areas were defined those were then filled in and surrounded by subsidiary motifs.<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-46121873487720363862016-05-07T14:44:00.001+01:002016-05-07T14:44:15.959+01:00Visting Mary Lloyd<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of examining this wonderful Welsh quilt which is in the collection of the Welsh National History Museum at St. Fagans near Cardiff. It isn't on display so I viewed it in the storage area and here I must thank Elen Philips, the curator in charge of textiles there, for all her help and enthusiasm when we quilters get into the investigation groove.<br />
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I don't really know where to start as I took lots of pictures of this very large bed quilt, both of the top, which is a mixture of broderie perse applique and pieced patchwork and the reverse of the quilt which is very densely quilted with very typical Welsh patterning. So I will divide this post into two parts and talk again about the quilting and hopefully some of the history once I have had a chance to study the pictures more carefully!<br />
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The quilt is in good condition, but is water stained in the central area which is a shame. Otherwise the fabrics, which are mainly chintz are still vibrant, many still holding their glaze! The broderie perse applique is very neat, but not invisible and turned under and not attached with herringbone stitch, which was the other way with this technique in the early part of the 19th century!<br />
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In this last picture the basket is a little out of focus but I have included it as you can see some of the wonderful Welsh patterning about which I will talk again.<br />
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I do hope that all you ladies who are working hard at the <a href="http://www.homesteadhearth.com/rowdy-flat-library-quilt.htm">Rowdy Flat Library Quilt</a> and Susan Smith its designer, who was inspired by our Welsh Mary Lloyd quilt to create it, will find these pictures interesting! <br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-11690905341244258322016-04-11T12:54:00.000+01:002016-04-12T09:15:14.104+01:00What have I been doing?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's been a long time and though I do drop in and look at blogs now and again, I seem to have no urge to write! Blame it on Facebook and Instagram, as they seem to have completely taken over my online life.<br />
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As you all know, though patchwork and quilting will always be my first love, I have become rather obsessed with collecting Emma Bridgewater spongeware and belong to several groups on Facebook that discuss, swop and sell her products. I also go on trips to the factory in Stoke, which remind me of the buzz I used to get going on quilting and embroidery trips, which now are very much a thing of the past for me! <br />
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So what have I been doing? Where to start? Well I have joined Instagram and really love it. I have always enjoyed taking the pictures for this blog but now I seem to be doing it all the time and getting much more immediate feedback? One of the downsides of blogging is that you get so few comments and as we bloggers thrive on feedback after a while one gets the feeling that no one is listening. I know this isn't the case and that many people have difficulty either expressing themselves or actually getting through the technical difficulties, but lack of comments is definitely a downer for me. With FB and IG this is not a problem, there is plenty of inter action!<br />
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I have been working on some projects, mostly using Liberty fabric. Liberty has always been a great favourite of mine and now through Instagram (IG) I have discovered that there are groups all over the world absolutely obsessed with it and also that it is manufactured in different colours for Japan and Australia! I had no idea of this? Many years ago I was going to do a quilting book with Liberty, but after working at it quite intensively, the publishers pulled out because they didn't think the fabric would be available worldwide. How wrong they were?<br />
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I am in the middle of quite a few things! In fact I'm feeling rather frustrated because I have so many ideas but not enough time to actually sew them, especially as everything is being done by hand. Many are using my current favourite technique of broiderie perse, but on a smaller scale!<br />
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Here I have been cutting out some of the flowers from Liberty Tana Lawn and putting them together to form a bouquet -<br />
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A couple of finished projects - these are two small quilts.<br />
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As well as the above, I have been quilting my Cottage Orne quilt, so though not posting here, I am not rusting away!<br />
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Here is the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/red_alfreda/">link</a> to my Instagram pictures as I can't seem to find an official link button for this blog!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-6158028787088941952015-08-21T16:15:00.002+01:002015-08-21T16:15:40.703+01:00Here I am again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well it's been quite a time since I last posted, so what have I been up to? Not much sewing that's for sure! I suppose I'm having a bit of a creative block? It's never happened to me before and I am quite worried about it. Being creative in one way or another has been a great comfort over the years and has sustained me through difficult times. I have had short periods, usually after a bereavement, when my creative juices have been absent but they always come back, however, at the moment they are eluding me.<br />
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I am on Facebook regularly, but so many of you say that you don't do Facebook, that I switched my page from public to just for friends. I have also just joined Instagram and find that good fun too and am enjoying taking pictures with my iPhone and posting them! So I suppose I'm being a creative albeit in a different way?<br />
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Slowly, very slowly, I have been working on this little quilt which is using many of the patterns I drafted for my Cottage Orne quilt, which I am also struggling to quilt - it's not going well at all and I will post some pictures on its <a href="http://cottagenornequilt.blogspot.co.uk/">own blog</a> as soon as I can.<br />
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If you follow my <a href="http://cottagenornequilt.blogspot.co.uk/">Cottage Orne Blog </a>you will see that I have changed the centre of the design. The house and border I made originally, just didn't look right, so I used this broderie perse panel instead. Sometimes even the best laid plans simply don't work out and it was fortunate that I had this unfinished piece looking for a border?<br />
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I've named the quilt "Miss Austen's House", as in my imagination it is just the sort of place in which Jane would have lived had she not died comparatively young? For after the great success of her novels, she would surely have had enough money to leave Chawton Cottage and build a house of her own surrounded by a lovely garden and of course she would have had cats?<br />
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St. David's Day!<br />
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It is a beautiful day here in Wales, sunny but with rather a cool breeze. The earth is responding and I have snowdrops, crocus and the tiny <strong>Tête-á-Tête</strong> daffodils blooming in my garden and my Purple Prunus tree is in bud and read to pop! It's a little bit late this year but when it does come it delights not only me but my neighbours too! As it is in front of my bedroom window, for a couple of weeks I can lie in bed and look out into a mass of pale pink blossom!<br />
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I have just nipped outside to take this picture but didn't stay long as it hasn't warmed up yet! <br />
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Some of you have noticed that I having been posting for a while, all I can say is that I have just not been in the mood! Also I was beginning to get dispirited by the lack of response! I know by my stats that lots read this blog, but so very few people leave comments, so I decided to do more on my Facebook page. I will continue to write here and on my other blogs from time to time, but if you want to keep up with me I am on Facebook. Do come over and take a look!<br />
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I am working on a link to my page but not having much luck so far but will keep trying!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-6966874216296043872014-12-24T12:06:00.000+00:002014-12-24T12:06:11.191+00:00Christmas Greetings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been a very dilatory blogger this past year so one of my resolutions will be to do better in the coming year! However, you can only write when the spirit moves and I'm afraid that it hasn't lately!<br />
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I have just taken this shot of my mantel. It's of my Christmas Toby jug filled with rather dried out berries from the garden, but I am hanging on to them because I love the colour! The robins I bought on Etsy and they are gorgeous. Definite heirlooms and will come out every Christmas.<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-53519940559660144242014-11-27T08:41:00.000+00:002014-11-27T08:41:24.337+00:00Thanksgiving Greetings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I usually try and find a beautiful American quilt to greet you on this day! However, because I'm under the influence of my visit to Stoke on Trent, which I have yet to tell you about, I am sending you instead, a Turkey platter made in that city!<br />
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This beauty was made by Spode who manufactured in it's vast factory in Stoke from 1774 to 2008, when it
finally closed. The brand was subsequently purchased by
Portmeirion, who continue to make Spode branded wares at their own
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-88812642632193047612014-11-25T23:06:00.001+00:002014-11-25T23:17:18.536+00:00Big Day for EB!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am still preparing the next Stoke on Trent post, but in the meantime I have to share with you these pictures of Emma with the Duchess! Better publicity you could not buy?<br />
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No prizes for guessing what the Duchess is asking in the last picture?<br />
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It's all in aid of charity of course! Here is the<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2848609/The-Duchess-Cambridge-comforts-grieving-families-Norfolk.html"> link </a>to the story if you would like to follow it?<br />
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Of course the EB potty people are very eager to get their hands on some of these, but they won't be out until next March. With Christmas coming, followed by the special sale runs, the factory will be working at full capacity now. So everyone will have to be patient, but it really is the thrill of the chase. Once they have them it won't be long before they will be selling them on eBay - I have seen it all before.<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-83718301700114365042014-11-13T12:55:00.001+00:002014-11-13T14:20:03.464+00:00A little break!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been doing a bit of gadding about! Sharon and I have been staying in a Facebook friend's little house in Derbyshire for a few days!<br />
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It was quite delightful and a lovely base for visiting some favourite places.<br />
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On the way we visited the Bicester shopping outlet and did some Christmas shopping and this was the hall on our arrival!<br />
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It got much fuller than this - this was the rear view of the cab on the way home! <br />
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Well where to start? We packed so much into those few days! Of course as both of us are potaholics we made two visits to Stoke on Trent, but on the middle day we visited Chatsworth to take in a bit of culture!<br />
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This is the view of the Painted Hall where the staff were beginning to put up the Christmas decorations! They were full of apologies for the disruption but it was interesting to see the process in a stately home. We weren't that impressed with the decorations which we thought were more suitable for a department store and didn't think that they did justice to their sumptuous surroundings!<br />
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The above picture is a view of the golden windows, not yellow paint but real gold leaf! When I visited a few years ago the whole house was shrouded in plastic as it was being renewed.<br />
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Next time I will tell you all about our visit to Stoke on Trent and the pots we bought and saw! <br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-39634844998135889872014-10-30T13:53:00.003+00:002014-10-30T17:35:26.525+00:00Lucious stitching!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes you see something that is so wonderful that you simply have to share!<br />
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This is a detail of a portrait of Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, who was a very close friend and confidant of Elizabeth I.<br />
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The detail in this portrait by Robert Peake is wonderful and you can click this <a href="http://www.weissgallery.com/paintings/catherine-carey-countess-nottingham-c1547-1603">link</a> and zoom in to examine it more thoroughly.<br />
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Because the dress was so spectacular, it was thought for a while, that it was a portrait of Elizabeth herself, but apparently it isn't! They were such good friends that Elizabeth lent her the dress for the portrait! However, there is some doubt about Catherine's parentage. Here is what Wikipedia says -<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Catherine Carey was born in about 1524, the daughter of Sir <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carey_%28courtier%29" title="William Carey (courtier)">William Carey</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldenham" title="Aldenham">Aldenham</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>, Gentleman of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Chamber" title="Privy Chamber">Privy Chamber</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire_of_the_Body" title="Esquire of the Body">Esquire of the Body</a> to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>, and his wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boleyn" title="Mary Boleyn">Mary Boleyn</a>,
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-40200939584548541872014-10-13T17:51:00.001+01:002014-10-14T16:35:22.287+01:00New Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sorry about the teaser the other week! It is so easy to press a wrong button on Blogger and I didn't realise I had until I got comments!<br />
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I got bored trying to finish things and decided that as I enjoyed working the Cottage Orné<b> </b>quilt so much, I would do another in the same vein. I think this one will work out a bit smaller, only about 40 blocks and I am using a stronger colour palette.<br />
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All the blocks are taken from Georgian quilts. Many are the same as in the Cottage Orné, which was based on the Sundial Coverlet, but there are different ones too, some I have come across since and wanted to try out! <br />
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I am using mostly Liberty Lawn fabrics because some of the pieces are so small that the fabric has to be quite thin but strong and these fabrics are certainly that. I never ceased to be amazed at the sheer variety of patterns produced by Liberty. You only have to look on eBay to get a inkling but the range is even bigger than appears there. I have been collecting them for decades, so quite a lot of what I am using is vintage, but I am still buying bits on line. I like to find the quirky stuff, because it can be cut into and makes interesting effects within a block.<br />
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Apart from the house at the centre, all the blocks measure 12 centimetres, because Georgian patchwork blocks were small and this seems a good compromise size. It is also easily divided by two, three and four which helps when drafting the patterns.<br />
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I am using my usual method of selection, getting a wide collection of fabrics together that seem to mix well. Then I don't have to worry too much when choosing for individual blocks as I know that they will blend together whatever I choose! <br />
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I have done 20 blocks so far, so quite a way to go!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-59191082488520247062014-10-07T09:33:00.002+01:002014-10-07T09:58:00.538+01:00Eye on Elegance Exhibition, DAR Museum, Washington DC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sorry about the last post, I was going to share a new project with you and accidentally pressed the "publish" button! It certainly brought in more comments than I usually get, so maybe I should try a teaser more often?<br />
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I will return to it soon, but first of all I wanted to tell you about a new exhibition which is now open in Washington DC. For those of us who can't get to see it there is an online exhibit and an excellent video - here is the <a href="http://eyeonelegance.dar.org/">link </a><br />
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I am particularly interested in early American quilts because they have such a strong link to British quilts. Many have the same format as our frame quilts and use blocks found on our Georgian quilts. This quilt being a prime example -<br />
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It has such a strong and simple form and I can see it made up in various ways. It could be in plain vibrant colours and be Amish? Or made in dark Welsh wool and be Welsh? However, here it is in beautiful chintz, very carefully chosen and probably very expensive? The quilting on it is absolutely breathtaking, do look at the <a href="http://eyeonelegance.dar.org/exhibition/pieced-quilts">video</a> on piecing which shows it in detail. Of course if it was Welsh it would have different quilting, equally sumptuous but quite distinctive, full of spirals, fans and other wonderful Welsh patterning! Sorry couldn't resist getting that in!<br />
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This really is what the exhibition to about, it is demonstrating to us with wonderful examples, the trouble and expense women went to in the 18th and early 19th century, to make masterpiece quilts using high quality fabrics. This is something dear to my heart, collecting really good fabrics and using them imaginatively!<br />
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I do wish I could visit and drool over these wonderful quilts!<br />
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Here I must give this museum full credit for catering for those of us you can't visit in person. Not often I praise a museum on this page!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-52328881008092381162014-09-27T10:35:00.001+01:002014-09-27T10:35:13.263+01:00Liberty/Persephone Pomegranate Pots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My favourite store Liberty of London has again teamed up with my favourite pottery person, Emma Bridgewater and yesterday launched a new range of pots which will be on sale for six months. EB does commissioned ranges for other retailers and of course they are eagerly bought up by us potty people!<br />
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It is a version of the one they did for Persephone Books a few years ago which is a proven favourite -<br />
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There has been rumours that this pattern was going to be produced in more shapes and we have been teased by seeing pieces being used in EB advertising displays -<br />
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Well it doesn't look as if it is going to happen and thinking about it, it isn't the way EB operates. They always keep the copyright of a pattern but rarely reproduce it exactly, especially if it is commissioned. We collectors have also come to the conclusion that they like to tease us and of course we fall for it every time! We are hooked and they know it!<br />
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So there was great excitement yesterday for those of us who had ordered online, because of course most of us weren't able to get up to London for the launch! We shared our experiences on Facebook - yes I know, we are all completely potty!<br />
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Mine arrived yesterday morning! Well actually the cake plate isn't mine, I ordered it for my friend whose internet connection was down! I just bought the teapot!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-21004562588418971772014-09-19T14:14:00.001+01:002014-09-19T14:14:30.787+01:00Not English?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently found this quilt online in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I am delighted to say that I have actually visited this splendid museum which has an outstanding collection of textiles, sadly not on show, but at least they do have some of them on line. Regular readers of this blog will know that I am very often irritated by museums, but occasionally something good does surface and we must savour the moment!<br />
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Since I pinned it on my Pinterest Board it seems to be regularly re-pinned so I know that it must appeal to lots of you out there.<br />
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I came across it by typing "English patchwork" into the museum's online search box. This quilt was the only result with the following information - <br />
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Well it might have English fabrics but I don't think that it was made in England? Even though the predominant star pattern is to be found in so many early British quilts it wasn't used in quite the same way. <br />
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I was recently reading a research paper written by a member of the British Quilt Study Group which explored the link between UK patchwork and the block patterns that developed in North America and it is fairly obvious that there is a very strong possibility that UK patterns were the forerunners of the American block. Of course this star pattern is seen in so many other guises, tiled floors being the most obvious? It is regularly seen at the centre of Welsh quilts as well as some of our English 18th century coverlets, so it's been around a long time! It really is an international pattern and no one country can claim it. In this quilt I think it is used in a very American way. I'm not sure of why I think this and would be interested in what you think?<br />
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It is true that early American quilts are very often similar in style to British quilts, in fact some may have crossed the Atlantic with their owners. It's actually amazing how many objects have and still do cross the ocean, some several times. Maybe someone brought English fabrics with them when they sailed to the New World, though it's far more likely that they were imported when trade bans existed! Politics get into everything! I prefer the first option because I like to think that someone carried their precious fabrics with them as they embarked on their journey to a new life!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-13876923468298235072014-09-11T17:29:00.001+01:002014-09-11T17:29:32.337+01:00Edwardian Houses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm sorry to have been away so long! I haven't been feeling like blogging and have been considering having a Facebook page instead! Several friends have asked me why I haven't been writing here and there's no easy answer except that I couldn't think of anything to write about! A writers block maybe?<br />
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I am having roof work done on this house which is quite unsettling, especially while typing this there is lots of banging going on just over my head! A prior owner of this house, which is now 107 years old, had replaced the original slates with tiles and I have been having it re-slated in affordable stages. We are on the last lap and I must say I am really pleased with the look and as slates are far lighter than tiles they are so much kinder to the roof timbers of this old house.<br />
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Though I live in Wales and we are famous for our production of slate, I had to be content with Canadian slate because there is such a shortage of Welsh at the moment. The resurgence of building after the economic downturn is being blamed and we had to wait in the slate queue quite a while! It's absolute madness to think that I couldn't support my home country's slate industry but actually there is very little difference. They look and cost the same as the Welsh, so it's our secret! Annoying though, but thank you Canada for producing such good stuff!<br />
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When we first moved to this Edwardian house, I worked this sampler to celebrate it's 100th Birthday and I cheated a bit and gave it a slate roof because I always hoped that one day it would have one! Now it has, so at least one dream has come true and it looks more like it's needlework depiction. Sadly, Frank, my dear black cat, is no longer trotting up the path to the front door but is buried in the garden. He is not forgotten even though I now have Bella and Wilfred! <br />
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Since my marriage, I have only lived in two houses and both have been Edwardian, so I have become very fond of houses of that era. I read somewhere that it was the high spot of building standards in the UK and I can quite believe it. It was just before World War 1 and that was such a life changing four years for this country, things have never been the same since in so many ways! <br />
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Edwardian houses were build to last and had high quality material, sadly though they are beginning to show their age and need a great deal of maintenance. The good thing is that young people greatly appreciate them and I am surrounded by younger neighbours who have moved in and are busy restoring all the original features that were ripped out in the 60s and 70s. Though everyone I know, who loves houses, seem to long for a Georgian house, Edwardian ones are perhaps more attainable and better build?<br />
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I have recently begun a board on Pinterest so if you would like to see and learn more, here is the <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/redalfreda/edwardian-houses/">link </a></div>
Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-33287944747718588522014-06-21T11:28:00.002+01:002014-06-21T11:31:23.881+01:00A temporary blip?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So sorry I have been absent for a few weeks. I haven't been feeling at all creative, though I am trying to finish a few projects!<br />
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I think that's the trouble frankly. The excitement for me is when I am designing, planning and sorting through fabrics. At the moment I'm feel guilty about all the unfinished things that are piling up and every time a spark of an idea comes to me I feel I must stifle it. I know that if someone was telling me this about themselves I would tell them not to be so silly. I would say that unfinished projects are not a sin and in the event of them not being finished by you, someone else may finish them for you! However, I'm not in the mood for taking this on board and am feeling rather down!<br />
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It's not helped by warm weather! I know we are all supposed to like hot, sunny weather, but I'm a true North European and I don't. In fact my spirits tend to plummet when the temperature rises! <br />
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On a more cheerful note, I'm still deeply into EB and have had some lovely visits with EB friends and have acquired one or two new treasures!<br />
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Though I do buy new pieces from Stoke, I tend to buy older pieces on eBay. The large cup and saucer on the right of the picture is a rare piece and was spotted on eBay by an eagle eyed friend, who bought it on my behalf. <br />
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I visited with this same friend last week and here is her lovely lunch table filled with assorted EB - she apologises for the trailer in the picture but if we had cropped that we would have lost the beautiful view - she lives in the midst of wonderful Welsh countryside.<br />
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Sunny days are delightful on times and this was such a day!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-56075233468098980942014-05-25T09:30:00.000+01:002014-05-25T09:30:00.520+01:00Three little Welsh Quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I came across this photograph in my files, it must have been taken one September judging by the garden? Not sure which year though?<br />
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These three little quilts had been on exhibition and I was giving them an airing before storing them away in the quilt cupboard.<br />
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The cow quilt is my version of a wonderful folk art one belonging to Ron Simpson which is presently forming the central part of the current exhibition at the <a href="http://www.welshquilts.com/">Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter.</a><br />
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and in the picture below, at the top, second from the left, is the original Ceredigion basket quilt which inspired my little basket quilt also on the line, together with a doll sized basket quilt from my book LITTLE WELSH QUILTS. This can be ordered from my publisher from the link at the side of this blog. It can be downloaded in seconds from anywhere in the world and stored on your iPad or other tablet. It's then just like a book, only a moving one as there are videos of me demonstrating my way of doing things, especially the way I mark out quilting patterns.<br />
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<br />On the right hand side of the above picture is a Welsh wool version of Mariner's Compass blocks! I have seen one of these before and have a picture somewhere, but can't find it at the moment. However, if there are two surviving there must have been a few made? Of course we use the name Mariner's Compass now, but this pattern is to be found in many early British quilts, so not new, just re-invented, given a name and marketed?<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-48721086651411950872014-05-20T17:28:00.003+01:002014-05-20T17:28:41.661+01:00Pretty, flowery quilts!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Chelsea Flower Show is upon us and as usual I'm in my annual gardening mood. I'm not a proper gardener, but I love visiting gardens and am interested in garden design which links in well with designing quilts. So this time of the year I like working on something pretty and flowery and putting aside the richer, bolder colours of winter. <br />
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Usually I have an ongoing project as most of my quilts take several summers to complete and I find inspiration from studying old English quilts. I say English, they may actually have been made anywhere in the British Isles as the same fabrics were available to all, so let's say made in the English style?<br />
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I have been searching through my Pinterest boards to show you what inspires me. The original source of many of the pictures are difficult to credit, but many were from auction catalogues and others from museums.<br />
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As you know, I enjoy doing Broderie Perse applique, though I do find it time consuming because I do it using herringbone stitch, one of the traditional ways of attaching the cut pieces. Of course I could machine it, but I like the process of hand sewing and rarely use my sewing machine.<br />
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This week I have returned to a piece I started last year, which I showed you then. It was to be a teaching aid for my class at the Welsh Quilt Centre, but sadly we had to cancel through lack of students, so obviously it isn't that inspiring as I thought!<br />
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In this last picture I am auditioning fabrics which may form the outer borders and corner pieces, but there will be quite a bit of applique on the striped inner border which I have yet to decide upon!<br />
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Ah well onwards and upwards! It's certainly easier to do than working in the garden!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-32613804155568313852014-05-12T13:39:00.004+01:002014-05-12T13:40:50.426+01:00Keep Patching!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Have you heard of Boro? I had vaguely and now there's been an exhibition at Somerset House in London all the great and the good will be now be fully aware of them? It was also a selling exhibition with pieces starting at £5,000, so probably too late to start a little collection?<br />
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These are the pictures that first caught my eye and encouraged me to follow up the many links in search of something new to me in textiles - maybe they will spark your interest too?<br />
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Boro can be translated into English as ‘rags’ and is the
collective name for items, usually clothing and bed covers, made by
the poor, rural population of Japan who could not afford to buy new
when need required and had to literally make ends meet by piecing and
patching discarded cotton onto existing sets, forming something slightly
different each time they did so. <br />
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If you are as interested in this as I have become, here are two really good videos that explain and show examples -<br />
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I would like to think that the trend for re-cyling fabric grows and becomes fashionable, because, apart from it's green credentials, it seems to draw people to the craft. It's a very appealing concept, but newcomers then come up against the commercial might of the fabric, gadget and machine manufacturers and cannot always find their way to like minded folk.<br />
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I myself feel very out of step these days. I won't bore you again with my opinions, but it was inspiring to learn how old, distressed, but still beautiful things are so appreciated. I only wish that our own Welsh quilts were so venerated and granted an exhibition at Somerset House! <br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-79459186162658592802014-05-03T18:32:00.001+01:002014-05-03T18:32:43.940+01:00Miss Anne Pritchard's Patchwork Bedspread<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sorry it has taken so long to keep my promise of more pictures of the early 19th century bedspread which I posted a little while ago. I was hoping to have done a bit more research, but sadly I have been caught up in other things. However, I will tell you what I know.<br />
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I was wrong calling it a coverlet. It has been described as a bedspread and though it has some outline quilting, which you can see in some of the close-ups, it looks like just two layers, so not a quilt?<br />
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As these pictures came from several sources, there are some repeats of certain interesting bits, but I thought I would include them as they show different surrounding fabrics.<br />
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I greatly enjoyed looking at the fabrics and though I am no expert on old fabrics, they looked like a mixture of soft furnishing rather than dress fabrics? I was pleased by this because I use many such fabrics in my work and can't understand why they are considered unsuitable. I love the fact that they introduce a larger scale of pattern to the patchwork, which I think makes it more interesting?<br />
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Though the sewing was competent, it wasn't highly skilled, as you will be able to see in the close-ups of the patches. Like much of the patchwork of that era, fabrics either had been sewn together to make a patch or cut from a previous incarnation.<br />
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This bedspread was given to the Museum in 1962. The records simply say that it was a patchwork bedspread made of cotton prints, both glazed and plain with a linen backing. It was thought to have been made by Miss Anne Pritchard of Collena "about 150 years ago" (1812 by this calculation).<br />
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The Pritchard family lived in Collena House, Tonyrefail, a three story mansion originally built in 1093, which overlooks the
village. In the early 19th century it would have been an important house and the major one in this area which eventually was surrounded by industrial South Wales. My next task is to find out if it is still there and do a bit more digging!<br />
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I know some of you reading this are experts at dating fabrics, so please do comment and give us the benefit of your knowledge!<br />
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Little Welsh Quilts and other traditionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04740539581226906712noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256154936138771419.post-23596424918369087412014-04-29T14:51:00.000+01:002014-04-29T21:07:51.638+01:00Kaffe at the American Museum again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week I visited the latest Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the American Museum in Bath! I will spare you the details of our journey, suffice to say that the roads leading in an around Bath were gridlocked, which perhaps didn't help my mood. It was also a rather dull grey day! Nevertheless I was greatly looking forward to my visit as I am a admirer of Kaffe work and have seen most of his many exhibitions over the years!<br />
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Colourful it certainly was!<br />
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I was really pleased to see on of my very favourite things of Kaffe's -<br />
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Photography wasn't allowed, so the above pictures have been taken from the Internet which makes it difficult to credit each source! <br />
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Despite visiting in Easter school holidays, the Museum was very quiet. In fact I don't think I have ever been there when it was so deserted. Mind you I haven't been there for a while because they now don't do regular quilt exhibits, so no reason to go!<br />
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Things have changed and not for the better. The refreshments are now served in a newly built cafe which would have been wonderful, as it has been angled to make the most of the stunning views, but it is a terrible mishmash of styles. The ceilings and windows are modern and cutting edge but someone has then decided to give it a Greek Revival touch and rather nasty pillars and architrave have been added. Then to cap it all it has been filled with really awful brown wooden tables and chairs! Also the lovely array of American cakes and cookies are no longer and neither do you queue up at the old fashioned window and deal with the jolly ladies in the kitchen! Now it has a more professional look and food is served within the new cafe with a more limited choice of quite ordinary British things, not American at all! Ah well, that's the way things go these days! The old fashioned looks and ways, that were so charming, all swept aside in the name of progress! Grrr!<br />
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Apart from grumbling about the above, did I enjoy my visit? Well to be perfectly truthful I came away feeling rather flat. Maybe I have seen too much of Kaffe's work and it was all becoming just too familiar. There is no doubt that an awful lot of stuff was there, many of it familiar from other exhibits, but it felt like a small exhibition! It was wonderfully co-ordinated and staged and the colour hit you from the start, but I toured it in less than 15 minutes and didn't return to have another look, as I usually do! <br />
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If you would like to hear and see Kaffe talk about this exhibition, here is a link to a very interesting video -<a href="http://virtualmuseumofbath.com/2014/03/22/inside-the-colourful-world-of-kaffe-fassett/"> click </a>scroll down and enjoy!<br />
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After having a lovely sunny week here in Wales, today when my next door neighbours are having a family egg hunt in their garden, it's cool and cloudy with rain to come. Such a shame! <br />
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