Festival of Quilts 2015 Birmingham NEC (updated)

I am on my phone so this will be mostly photos.

A Stonefields Quilt  made by Corienne de Hass and quilted by Kay Bell. (Stonefields has been issued as a block of the month by different quilt shops)

These next three lose ups are from Claudia Pfiel's quilt. So many people were gathered round, I didn't get a photo of the whole quilt as there were always people in shot. The detail is intense.

 

 And this is the winner of the miniature quilts made by Kumiko Frydl, as always, amazing work. The miniature quilts at the FoQ have different rules than those of other shows. Miniature by definition at this show is doll's house scale with a maximum size of 30cm (just under 12") which is odd that they use cm when this scale is 1:12.

I would like to say I got loads of

quilting done in my absence from blogging, but that would be a lie. Tennis. I blame the tennis. I have a TV in my studio but is a square one and I just miss too much on it. And I put my back out which lost me 10 days...... excuses excuses excuses.

This is where I was up to in June. That 2nd border took some time, not as much as the centre background but it is a far greater area. I did get it finished in July.

The marking of the outer border was a task all of it's own.

It takes a whole day to quilt above and below and in one elipse in the outer border and there are 8 elipses on each side.
On a lovely note we had a posh champagne afternoon tea at Llangoed Hall.

 

 

Definitely a sign of a posh place when they have a helipad. lols