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?
3 comments:
Hi,
These rae just beautiful ... thank you for sharing them!
Very best wishes,
barbara
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!)
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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