In this final post from the Newark Quilt Show I’m sharing many more of the fabulous quilts on display, and I think they’re somewhere in between Alicia Merrett’s modern quilts and Carolyn Forster’s traditionally scrappy quilts, but still just as amazing and beautiful in their own right.
Many, like the Jubilee quilt below, are made from scraps collected over many years - so that brings me some solace!
JUBILEE, JANET BEVAN
The bold quilt below is by Australian artist Brenda Wood and reflects her love of colour and shapes in her local environment, and as the blurb said truly does take an ‘in-depth and close up look at shape, colour and texture.’ For me it’s the attention to detail, even on the binding - it’s not just plain black, but some has that barcode pattern which brings further interest.
FLIGHTS OF FANCY, BRENDA WOOD
The quilts by Gillian Travis were full of colour and full of memories from her travels - both of which looked amazing!
BURANO WINDOWS, GILLIAN TRAVIS
There were also quilts by the Pearoom Quilters based in Lincolnshire who responded to the challenge to produce a piece reflecting time in any way, using the log cabin block as their starting point. Unsurprisingly when you ask creative people to approach something like this, there were many interpretations - here are some of my favourites:
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DI BELL
NUMBER 7, MARY JACKSON
ALL THE SEASONS’ COLOURS, SALLY WARREN
MAY TIME BY PAM BUNKER
There were so many in this part of the exhibition I could have chosen to share though, and narrowing it down to four quilts was hard enough.
But that wasn’t all, there’s another quilt that is absolutely stunning coming up…
THE COLOURS OF LOVE, HELEN BURNHAM
Helen made this as a wedding gift for her mathematician godson and his wife of Indian heritage - who have generously lent it back again according to the card alongside it. I do wonder just how much they’ve seen of it as I’m sure this one is in demand from all the quilt shows!
AFRICAN KELS, JANET BEVAN
One of the things I took from the quilts on display is that a quilt can be anything you want it to be - bold, bright, modern, traditional or anything in between. Whichever it is it’s most certainly made with love, and by someone who loves to create.
So often we focus on the small detail forgetting the bigger picture - I’m sure there’s a life lesson in there too!
