We went to the Festival of Quilts show again this year and again is was really good. Lots of quilts to look at and draw inspiration from and lots of wonderful stalls to help us spend some money! There seemed to be a lot of Art Quilts this year which I’m not too keen on. Some were very clever I will say that but I much preferred the traditional and some of the contemporary ones.
We found one stall, The Seattle Quilt Company, selling wonderful flannels. I couldn’t resist and have bought some lovely pale green ones to make a blanket for my youngest child – watch this space!! Meant to be for Christmas so best get a wriggle on!
Another stall we went to was Lin Patterson with her wonderful hand dyed velvet and cotton. My mum and I both bought some velvet at last years show and never managed to do anything with it. Well this time I have made sure I was going to use my purchase. So having bought some of her hand dyed cotton fabric I have just finished a cushion using that and the velvet. There was just enough of the cotton fabric to do both sides.
