Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK

Here is a series of pictures of the quilt that my friends and I liked the best. It got no comments from the judges, and no prize at all!!!! I find we never agree with the overall winner.....and actually this year I couldn't even find which one did win overall. They don't do resettes at this show, so it is difficult to see who does get a mention.
Anyway, the reason why we liked it so much was that it is a hexagon quilt with a difference. Normally I loathe hexagn quilts, but I really loved this.


It was made by a group of quilters....The Clandon Group of The Guildford Quilters. It is called "Liberty Floral Wreath", and is totally made from Liberty Tana Lawn. ("Colour blended to create larger flowers, background bleached, hand piecedand quilted in chainstitch using embroidery thread".) You can have it for £575.
The quilters were Doreen Plumridge (designer), P Bennet, V Oatridge, J Ellis, J Coombes, G Jones and S Beauman.
The blurb says "Our group love of traditional design, together with our love of liberty, no "brainwork" involved, whilst we discussed further quilts.
We voted for it as our visitors choice!
I didn't reduce the pixels size of these so that you can click on the pictures and enlarge it to get a better idea of its beauty. 

More from the festival of Quilts

These wonderful little Swedish Dolls' Beds with their linen sheets, and their handmade patchwork quilts were a complete delight. They are the passion of a Swedish lady who was at the show sharing an exhibition space with Asa Wettre (Old Swedish Quilts author).
The name of the quilter is Magdalena Ljung.
Apparently she has over 100 of these antique dolls beds and has made little handmade quilts for almost all of them.
I lusted after them all!

As before you can click on any of these to get the detail....!

There are 26 in total so will attempt to lad them all!

 

More little Swedish doll beds

More.....!

 

And more

 

Still more!

 

Yes.....more!

 

Last one!

Weren't they lovely? 

More hexagon quilts

This one wasn't a patch (forgive the pun!) on the other one, but still delightful.....! Actually, it was very good I just couldn't resist the pun.

I am not normally a fan of hexagon quilts, but this one had something extra! I liked the way the colours are arranged, and think it must be a real picture on the bed!

It was done by Pauline Hartley from Slough, UK. It is called "Grannie Pollie's Garden".
Fabric used - Liberty Tana Lawn. Entirely hand stitched (Patchwork and quilting) with cotton thread.

The blurb says "I love flowers and my garden and growing things. This quilt has many flowers and has "grown" over a period of 10 years. Like the garden it has taken patience and given its rewards."
This was an antique one on the Kaffe Fasset stand. There were a lot of antique quilts on his stand to show where he got his inspiration from. This too is a much more imaginative use of hexagons than one normally sees...really pretty.