Post Comment Love 26 - 28 June

Hello there, welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love.

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This week I’ve finally finished sorting through and editing my photos from last year’s Festival of Quilts show, it’s been a great thing to do while I’ve been inside sheltering from the high temperatures. Through this heatwave I’ve realised that my craft room, which gets the morning sun, can be quite quickly cooled in the afternoons to a bearable temperature with the help of the skylight, a semi open window and the open skylight on the back of the house - it creates quite a nice blow through even when it doesn’t look as if there’s too much movement outside. And of course being in my craft room is absolutely no hardship, though the irony on just finishing editing these photos, as I look forward to visiting the show again at the end of next month is not lost on me.

My photo this week is from that editing session - and I haven’t left myself the usual clues I would as I regularly leave it longer than my memory serves me to edit photos, so please enjoy a random sewn ‘front door, complete with snippets of white net curtains and I can’t decide if that’s a floral pattern or disrepair working it’s way across the door diagonally. Either way it’s quite random and just perfect to sit with and let your imagination do its thing - something I think we should all probably do more of.

Have a great week

A sewn 'front door panel'  from the Festival of Quilts 2025

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Stunning yet traditional quilts

Generally I tend to veer towards more contemporary quilts so I surprised myself by liking many of the quilts in the Traditional Quilts category at the 2025 Festival of Quilts show. I assumed that I wouldn’t have many photos of the quilts in this category, but I was wrong as I discovered when I was editing my photos this week!

Let’s start with the winner in this category, which after a second visit to the Chateau of Villandry while in France recently I have a new found admiration for, let alone the skill required to make even one of these blocks let alone put them together to form a cohesive design, which is aptly named Parterre.

PARTERRE, SONIA HIGGS - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

PARTERRE, SONIA HIGGS

This second one has a more ‘folk’ feel to it for me, and it’s none the worse for that. The images it prompts in my head are entirely different to the others in this post, isn’t it strange how a single image can provoke such thoughts?

THINKING OF SUMMER, HELEN STAMP

I loved the detail on this next quilt, and have included a section of the corner so you too can appreciate the piecing - how many small pieces just in this section?

LADY IN RED (MRS BILLINGS), MEGAN ARNOLD - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

LADY IN RED (MRS BILLINGS), MEGAN ARNOLD

I think the detail is missed when looking at the whole quilt, but I’d hope whomever this one keeps warm notices the detail as they snuggle up in.

LADY IN RED (MRS BILLINGS), MEGAN ARNOLD - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

LADY IN RED (MRS BILLINGS), MEGAN ARNOLD

It wouldn’t be a quilt show would it if there weren’t any Liberty fabric quilts, and this one is a joy. It uses a traditional quilt block and as well as the fabric choices, I love how the patterns draw your eye around the quilt.

LIBERTY STARS IN HEXAGONS, DOROTHY HILL - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

LIBERTY STARS IN HEXAGONS, DOROTHY HILL

Similarly quilters do like a rainbow, and this is a whopping one that I think would look great anywhere.

THE RAINBOW QUILT, FLOWER CHILD - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

THE RAINBOW QUILT, FLOWER CHILD

There’s a more structured approach to the blocks and colours used here, and while I love all the circles in the centre of the quilt it’s the border, and especially the corners, that I love most on this one. And those hearts on the green border.

CHELTENHAM, SONIA HIGGS AND SUSAN CAMPBELL - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

CHELTENHAM, SONIA HIGGS AND SUSAN CAMPBELL

Another quilt with a great name, and an even better look. The quilting on this one ‘plays’ with the diamond shapes and I think also contribute to the overall effect of the quilt, along with the colours used.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, MAGGIE BREAKSPEAR - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, MAGGIE BREAKSPEAR

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, MAGGIE BREAKSPEAR - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, MAGGIE BREAKSPEAR

It’s another one that uses many small pieces, this time hexagons and I can’t even begin to imagine planning this one.

LADY TULIP VARIATION, SALLY FEATHERSTONE - FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 2025

LADY TULIP VARIATION, SALLY FEATHERSTONE

This final quilt has many of the traditional quilt blocks that have rightly lasted for generations, and some of which are in my mystery block of the month and the charity quilts I made from my test blocks. While it’s traditional, I think the colours give it a more modern look, but overall I think this category goes to prove that there’s no such thing as a bad quilt!

Post Coment Love 19 - 21 June

Hello there, welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a relaxed, friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked, comment and share some of that love.

Please don’t link up posts which are older as they will be removed, and if you see older posts are linked then please don’t feel that it’s necessary to comment on those. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here we’re pleased you’ve joined us.

It’s been a garden visit heavy week, and I’m not complaining - but there’s been a lot of steps, and a whole heap more photos. I started the week with a press invite to relatively local Barnsdale Gardens and ended the week with another press invite to Gardeners’ World Live. More on both of those visits to come, but I when I got home I was so pleased to see my first dahlia flower - let’s hope there’s many more to come.

Have a good week.

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