As I stated in "about me" it has been a long path of creative expression making each quilt.
I have been struggling with depression for a number of years and am trying to return to my creative side once more. I do hope that writing this entry may set me off onto another direction of art, colour, design and what ever comes along.
I constantly read about other artist who's work I admire and how they came to their current point of creativeness in their life.
Quilt number 1.
Aarons House quilt. Well as you can see I didn't have a quilting hoop and didn't know how to use one when I made this quilt. The thickness of the wadding was terrible and that was all that was available way back then in Hobart Tasmania. I just stitched the three layers together with much effort and begin quilting. Maybe I should have started from the middle and worked out. I just didn't have a clue!
The quilt still is in use when my granddaughters come and stay. A lot of the hand stitching has broken in places. It was ALL hand pieced.
Well one has to begin somewhere I guess.
Quilt Number 2
Ewan's Boat quilt. A little more refined than the first quilt I must say. I would have purchased a lovely quilting hoop on a stand which made quilting a whole lot easier. I had also received instructions from my teacher on how to use it. The batting had improved then and was much thinner than the first quilt, My quilting friends passed on to me all their blue and white scraps which provided me with a wonderful challenge of sorting them into light and dark. I used red headcloth for the boat and white cotton for the sails. All the other fabrics were 100% cotton, however I did use dark blue polyester on the borders.
This quilt is still with me today and is also enjoyed by my grandkids. I hand pieced each square and machined assembled the whole quilt together.
Next quilt.....
Log Cabin. This was my first ever attempt at Log Cabin. I sewed strips onto pre cut squares of calico that had been marked with pencil lines to guide me. When it came to put all the squares together none of them correctly aligned with each other. I was very disappointed as I always strive for "perfection". My quilting friends said go ahead and just sew it all together which I did and was quite surprised at the final result. I learnt that perfection does not always need to be in many areas of quilting.
