My Favourite Quilts from FoQ 2011

WARNING!!! This is a VERY heavy blog-post with lots of photos!! These are my favourite quilts from the Festival of Quilts. You can "click" on the photographs to see a bigger image. If only I could make quilts half as good as these I would be a very happy woman :)

Spoon Fed Love by Maria Thomas - this was my absolute favourite - it was made with fabric and paper - just look at some of the old dress patterns - and these cathedral windows were beautiful - and the buttons - I went back to look at it so many times, it really was fabulous.....

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.....and in complete contrast I loved this quilt - Tropical Island by Bernadette Mayr. I adored the vibrant colours and the black and white inner border made the whole quilt sing, and the quilting was superb.....

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.....a more traditional quilt in blues and creams by Janice Lawson - I spotted this quilt on the first day at the Festival of Quilts and was another one that I had to go back to admire every day. This was beautifully handquilted....

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.....I really liked the colours in Prelude by Janet Twinn.....

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Sealily by Stephanie Redfern was another one that I kept going back to look at - it was amazing.....

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.....Breakers by Sheena Norquay was a group of four wallhangings that made fabulous use of colour and texture from the quilting. looking at this made you think you were standing by the shore. Living just a few miles from the coast myself, this was another one that I kept returning to look at during my time at FOQ.....

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.....and finally this one depicting trees by Helen Howes - I have been on several classes with Helen over at my local quilt shop. She is an excellant teacher and I've seen that she's holding a class in the Autum term at Quilters Haven - hmmm better book my place ;)

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