Just over a week ago, Cambridge Quilters, meeting at Granchester Village Hall, had the pleasure of meeting Deborah OHare from Quilt Routes. Deborah came to us from Wales to do a talk and workshop.
Deborah told us how she was a teacher and whilst working abroad took up patchwork and quilting. On returning to the UK she looked for some classes to continue with her new passion and decided to undertake the City & Guilds course in Patchwork & Quilting followed by Machine Embroidery.
Deborah found her speciality in fabric painting and she showed us a series of pieces based on the many, many places she has travellled to throughout her life. As an artist she has experimented with many different ways of putting an image or design onto cloth.
Nothing too complicated...simple methods which can be done in anyone's kitchen. I was reminded of several, such as transfer printing, which lie forgotten in a studio cupboard.
This is a photo from Deborah's blog showing her students, on a retreat, painting fabric.
These two pieces are fairly typical of her recent landcapes. The photos don't do justice to the detail and machine embroidery Deborah includes.
I did buy the kit to make this set of landscapes.....
wish I'd signed up the the workshop!
We were not shown these pieces which I found on Deborah's blog. As a 'Modern Quilter, I find these pieces very inspiring. For one thing, they are quite 'traditional' blocks yet the use of colour is quite stunning and is combined with very intensive straight line quilting
Here are a couple of close ups.
Finally, here are a collection of photos taken of members' work at Deborah's workshop...very impressive indeed.
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