Monday 20 June 2011

Patchwork


 This is "Patches", Clarence Carter, but I can't help thinking of Carole King's classic album "Tapestry"...

                                        
                                                 
                                                



This is a patchwork quilt my sister and I worked on since the early 1980s! It has all sorts of printed cottons, including some original Laura Ashley offcuts - when they sold them specifically for patchwork ( a bag of scraps would set you back 70p, in 1978). The Laura Ashley designers used to go to the Textile Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in South Kensington, London, for inspiration. I included some more modern checks and other found pieces.
It's fab to look back on as each piece has a memory. (Feelin' like Olivia Walton now.)


This quilt was all machined and included some polyester fabrics.
Recognise "Holly Hobbie"?

G'night y'all!

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