What makes a quilt a favourite quilt? I suppose it is our emotional response to it and very often that is instantaneous and difficult to quantify. It was love at first sight for me with this quilt -
which I first saw hanging at the entrance of an exhibition of quilts from the Jen Jones Collection at St. Fagans: National History Museum a few years ago and it stopped me in my tracks. In fact if I could choose just one quilt from Jen's collection, this would be the one!
It isn't made in the vibrant flannels or Paisleys that we usually think of as being typically Welsh. Its colours are pale, almost delicate and it has spotted fabric which is always challenging to use in a quilt, but here the quilter has pulled it off! It was made in Aberporth a coastal village in Ceridigion and Jen thinks it's early Victorian. The quilting is quite wonderful -
I have actually made a "Little Welsh Quilt" version and was going to show it here but chickened out, because though I am quite pleased with my little quilt, it doesn't really bear comparison to this stunner, which will be in the next exhibition at the Centre entitled "Oh that Summer would Last Forever". This begins on 12th March (see link for more details).
http://www.jen-jones.com/QuiltCentre/2011_Exhib.html
SIZE 214 x 229 cms.
which I first saw hanging at the entrance of an exhibition of quilts from the Jen Jones Collection at St. Fagans: National History Museum a few years ago and it stopped me in my tracks. In fact if I could choose just one quilt from Jen's collection, this would be the one!
It isn't made in the vibrant flannels or Paisleys that we usually think of as being typically Welsh. Its colours are pale, almost delicate and it has spotted fabric which is always challenging to use in a quilt, but here the quilter has pulled it off! It was made in Aberporth a coastal village in Ceridigion and Jen thinks it's early Victorian. The quilting is quite wonderful -
I have actually made a "Little Welsh Quilt" version and was going to show it here but chickened out, because though I am quite pleased with my little quilt, it doesn't really bear comparison to this stunner, which will be in the next exhibition at the Centre entitled "Oh that Summer would Last Forever". This begins on 12th March (see link for more details).
http://www.jen-jones.com/QuiltCentre/2011_Exhib.html
