My quilt The Colours of Alba returned this morning from the National Quilt Championships Sandown 2012 which took place last weekend. Even better was to discover two rozettes enclosed with it. One was because I had won the De Haviland Embroidery Award for Embellishment and the other because one of the judges Susan Briscoe had selected it as her Judge's Choice. By one of those wonderful coincidences she is who I bought the samurai fabric from (as mentioned in my previous post). She talks about her judging at Sandown in her blogpost here.
Here are some close-ups that show the lavish embellishments on top of the quilt. The circular patterned one (pictured above the leaves seen here) has also become my blip for today. The quilt was finished in 2010 and time-scale wise I needed to enter it into at least one show before it became too old for me to do so. The book project dragged on for more than a year and a half so there was a distinct danger of that happening.
Fortunately I managed to get it into Sandown before time ran out.
Above is the companion quilt Alba in Colour which uses my own hand-dyed fabrics (apart from the border that is a commercial batik) and formed part of my colour - quilts - collage exhibition last year.
3 comments:
I am almost at a loss of words for the beauty of this quilt, Frieda. And the sheer amount of work you did to create it. So glad you had detailed photos because I would not have been able to see all the beautiful beading you did otherwise. WOW!!! This is truly impressive. congratulations on your well deserved awards.
Congratulations Frieda - your work deserved the recognition - it is just lovely...
These 2 art pieces are stunning-very eye catching. Lots for work with the embellishments but so beautiful to see. Like the history also.
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