This last weekend was the British Quilt & Stitch Village in Uttoxeter, where the inimitable Mrs Jones had challenged her mad and feckless brave and loyal readers to join her in entering a quilt into the competition. Several of us rose to the challenge and threw caution to the wind as we entered our modern creations into what was a rather traditional pool.
I met up with Ange, Kerry, Susan and Reene so that we could be pass remarkable about browse around the exhibits and do a little retail therapy (it really was a little given the somewhat limited selection of modern fabrics…)
First of all there was some posing to be done:
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| Kerry with her pixelated Stephen Fry |
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| Ange and her chevrons |
There are pictures of me with mine, but they’re secret ;o)
We also saw Mrs Jones’ own entry:
There was a debate about whether or not this was the voile version of this quilt, so we broke the cardinal rule and *gasp* touched it… I did say I would tweet her and ask if we got challenged ;o)
There was some truly amazing work there, hours of painstaking effort put into both piecing and quilting on the quilt front, and into creating the pictures on the embroidery front. We found a couple of little things though that we knew would be right up Hadley’s street:
She seemed strangely resistant to the idea though…
Well done for getting Madrona Corners in there – it's absolutely beautiful Katy and def. worth the wait 🙂
I'm sure I saw that outfit at Festival of Quilts last summer. Although all quilted clothing does look remarkably similar 😉
love your post
It looks like a great day
You guys look like you had a ball (even if the lack of modern quilts was a bit disappointing ) Good on the members of your group for putting themselves out there.
Great day, lots of laughter and you were so great (and brave) to put your wonderful quilt in the show. Loved seeing it up close and personal, though of course I didn't touch it. Your father might have told me off! 😉
'Tis true, I did not feel the urge to embellish my brown linen skirt today, even though I had been so inspired!!
Mr Fry has never looked so good! Jxo
I was sulking about the absence of your quilt – but then I stopped by Susan's and saw it, so I'll forgive you ;o) It's gorgeous! I'd love to see some quilting shots (hint hint?)
Looks like an amazing show
I saw your quilt on Kerry's blog, is it a secret? In any event I like it.
We don't get to see your quilt? I just saw the comment above mine so I'm heading over to Kerry's blog 🙂
And yours? I'm off to Kerry's!
I looove that jacket. Beautiful.
Party over at mine! lol
Yay, it was fun, even if us modern babes were few and far between! :o)
It looks like you guys had a smashing day!
Oh my god… Stephen Fry's a quilt. I think that just made my month. 🙂