Quilts on Display this Weekend

 

  This weekend I will have  at least 10 of my quilts on show at  2 different venues within Europe!
International Threads  ' Challenges' will be  in Munich  from 11.11 to 3.12.  Besides the 7 that have already toured  to several shows  I sent 2  new ones to Uta last week  which have arrived safely and will be used to refresh the collection and retire some pieces.   

'Signs and Symbols'

 'Green'

 

Then at the West Country Quilt and Textile Show  in Bristol, Cwilt  Cymru's exhibition on the theme 'Cynefin'    will be shown for the first time . Ian and I are travelling there on Saturday to help steward. And if that wasn't enough, my quilt 'Eroding Margins'  ( below)   will also be there as part of CQ 'On The Edge'  exhibition.  I've not been before but it looks like  it should be an interesting show,  with contemporary quilts well represented.  

All 5 of the quilts shown above were made this year - pretty good going considering   our move and Ian's op .

CQ On the Edge: Eroding Margins

Thrilled to find out this morning that my entry ' Eroding Margins'  for CQ 'On  The Edge'  challenge  has been accepted!!
Having been in the 'Salon de Refuses' the last couple of times I've entered ( 'CQ@ 10'   and  'Dislocation') and  after a year of not making anything much, fearing I'd lost my way, it's given me a real boost. It fits in with both my continuing  series of indigo and seascapes  and those using salvaged antique red quilts, being constructed from sections of old quilts I dyed in the garden. 
A decent bottle of red with our lamb chops at lunchtime is called for I think...   

From my statement:

The edges of the coast are eroding, falling into the sea, being washed up in other places.  Disintegrating sea defence structures are patched up, replaced and reinforced, the coastline continually evolving, a delicate balance between intervening and letting nature take its course.   

Sections of two rescued antique coverlets over-dyed with indigo, tacked together and lines of broken quilting repaired, the edges of holes caught down and darned. Through the process of stitching I attempt to reach an equilibrium of mending with leaving the fragility and beauty of worn textiles to speak for themselves.