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Patchwork
At work on the quilting frame
In the early eighties I began to make patchwork by hand. In the beginning just some cushion covers for the couch. Then we moved to a place with concrete walls and lost os echo, and I constructed a large quilt to hang on the wall and soften the echo. The patchworket was ok done (on the sewing machine), but the quilting was pretty awful.
The years passed, the cushions got eaten by a puppy, and the quilt on the wall was used as a scratching post by the cats. I couldn't be bothered to make new cushions, but the wall quilt was another thing, and I started a new one, also on the sewing machine. And then more wanted more.
The next project was a queen sized quilt from a pattern in an American quilting magazine. Since then I have made another two, one in teal nuances and one in autumn colours and brown. There are more under way, but they take time, and as I have many other activities ongoing, progress will not be swift.
I now do most of the patchwork by hand, it is such a soothing occupation for winter evenings with the television running in the background. I have a Grace quilting frame, on which I have quilted the teal quilt, but the brown-and-autumn coloured quilt was quilted on a professional quilting machine, and the result was glorious. I do prefer to do the quilting by hand myself, but I shall no doubt use the opportunity to have other quilts professionally quilted.
I make scrap quilts primarily, because I think of them as the essential patchwork quilt, and because I find the play with colour and patterns involved fascinating.
As the quilts get photographed I will put the pictures on the pictures page.