The
SAQA Benefit auction of my 12 inch quilt 'Indigo Waves'
is now open for bidding ( page 2b). Just sold for $350!!!
Another indigo piece 'Rules the Waves' is featured on the
Contemporary Quilt Website - it was in the Guild challenge ('What Britain means to you' ) at the FoQ.
The TVCT exhibition 'Whatever Floats Your Boat' which includes my 'Taplow Vase' currently has another outing at the
National Needlework Archive.
On Monday I gave a talk (Powerpoint and lots of quilts) at Dulwich Quilters meeting (thanks Khurshid for inviting me). I had a lovely time, they were so hospitable and asked so many interesting questions. I hope to get to their exhibition in November. Many of them said their favourite quilt was 'City Girls Dream of the Sea' - it's mine too and lives on
our landing. Most people won't be aware of it as it was completed in 2000. It won 3rd place at Great Northern Quilt Show in Harrogate and make it on the cover of Popular Patchwork but hasn't been on show since. I've made so many seascape quilts now, it would be wonderful to have the opportunity to put them all on display somewhere, including the older pieces like this one.
I've just booked for the
Quilters Guild of the British isles 2013 AGM and Conference at the University of Nottingham. My first AGM was in Paignton in 1987 and for quite a while I went every year as it was the only large quilt gathering going on and a great way of making new friends and meeting up with old ones. It then turned into every other year and then more infrequently as there were more and more quilt events which seemed more relevant to me and competed for my limited time and funds.
While I enjoy the lectures and activities at the AGM conference, it is having top quality workshops which is what now attracts me (or not).
My last AGM was in 2008 in Cambridge when the draw was an excellent workshop with
Charlotte Yde - I continue to use the curved piecing methods she taught.
So I'm very much looking forward to coming to Nottingham for a workshop with
Uta Lenk. There's been a lot of grumbling about the price of the weekend but compared to the costs of workshops at say FoQ it is excellent value and I get all the benefits of the conference too! ( apart from anything else Nottingham is where I spent 3 years doing research for a PhD)
Meanwhile, the bathroom is getting there- a few setbacks but the tiling is mostly done and towel rail installed. We're getting a little tired of going downstairs to the loo and the bath is at an increasingly jaunty angle but it will be worth it!
