Angela has selected light blue for our RSC blocks and projects for June. I don't have many light blues so will be using the lighter shades of blue in my blue bin. I finished my lightish (is that even a word) blue Boxy Star.
Last weekend I went to see the Quilts of France quilt show. France was celebrating 30 years of quilting and one block was selected to represent each year. The quilters were given free rein as to the size of block and the setting of the blocks.
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| This earthy toned quilt has all 30 blocks. |
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| This one was set to resemble a banner. |
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| This neutral one had some of the blocks bound individually and buttoned on by the corners. |
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| This one was set like blossoms on a tree. The machine quilted tree was incredible. |
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| And there were art quilts. Brown tree like fabric was attached to backing. The whole was then machine quilted in wonderful silk and cotton threads. To me the quilt looked like zebra stripes. |
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A landscape in blues.
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| Some lovely Japanese fabrics in this one. |
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Envelopes full of love notes in a wide variety of languages.
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And what would a quilt show from France be without the Eiffel Tower?
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The quilts were wonderful to see. There was a lot of lace used as an overlay as well as many silks, brocades, velvets and other interesting fabrics.
But my favourite was a unique French quilting style - boutis.
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| The pattern is traced onto a linen weave batiste. A backing fabric is attached and then the piece is hand quilted with white hand quilting thread. Once the quilting is done, numerous strands of thread and yarn are inserted from the back between rows of stitching to create this trapunto effect. The quilter for this piece told me it took three years to make this quilt. It was beautiful - all white on white. Her stitches were so small and even. Wow!!! |
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8 comments:
Wow! Those quilts are amazing and that last one - just WOW! Enjoy playing with blues this month - I'm cheating and using all shades this month as well since I have tons of blue scraps still.
Your Boxy Star turned out well. Thanks for posting pics from the Quilt Show! Lots of inspiration in that lot.
Nice blue block Nell, and thanks for sharing the Beautiful Quilts of France pictures.
fun quilt show. I like that eifel tower! Got to go to a show and didn't buy anything!
I know what you mean--I don't have a lot of blue, either. Just not my thing. But the boxy star looks great! Thanks for sharing the Quilts of France photos.
Love the boxy star. Beautiful quilts of France.
Some pretty amazing quilts. I went to a quilt show this weekend too and was a bit disappointed. There were some beautiful quilts, however there were some that really disappointed. The price of admittance was high and no pictures could be taken.
Those quilt show quilts are quite stunning. Thanks for showing them.
The Boxy Stars look great. I wouldn't worry that the blues aren't light blue. Who cares in the end. There won't be any quilt police coming to issue tickets. LOL
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