Saturday, 29 January 2011

Rebinding Blue-Green Algae ?

 I've been taking photos of some of my older quilts  to include in my website , also to review candidates for a space I've got at work next to my desk. Surprisingly I haven't got too many  quilts that are plant related but I  used images from  books in Kew's library for these 'Blue-Green Algae' quilts from 1997. I entered them joined together for a quilt show  at the time and had them on my wall in my previous flat  but they've been separated for a while now - and stuck in a drawer.

 I love the hand quilting on these, all in silk buttonhole thread my mum bought at an NW Branch Embroiderers Guild sales table  - don't think I'd have the patience now. But the binding lets them down now - I've got so much better at it . So do I rebind them using the methods I use now ( I  prefer to use a facing on the back) or let them stand as evidence of the stage I had reached  at that time?

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3 comments:

  1. Barbara29 January 2011 at 21:17

    Hi,
    These rae just beautiful ... thank you for sharing them!
    Very best wishes,
    barbara

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  2. Sandra Wyman1 February 2011 at 11:03

    I'd be inclined to redo the binding - the middle is so beautiful it's worth getting right (though my normal pattern would be to move on, in this instance I'd make an exception!)

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  3. Bonnie Hull5 February 2011 at 22:18

    These are very beautiful...I think the binding "means something" (?) in your progress and wouldn't redo if I were you...

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