{"id":1439,"date":"2008-09-30T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:18:53","slug":"traditionalcontemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"traditional\/contemporary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think my quilt making is very much in the contemporary bracket! I don’t think I have the time, the patience, or probably worst, the inclination to produce a beautiful traditional quilt. I love the idea, but I don’t think I have the stomach to make one myself! It isn’t the size, because I would feel quite confident in that, it is the perfection, the precise nature of it, and as seen with the nuno felting, I don’t like to think I have failed!<\/p>\n

So this week we start work on the quilting on the course I’m running, I have shown you one already and thanks for all the lovely comments on that, but I wanted to make at least another one, a practical item.<\/p>\n

So here we go, small craft quilt number two!<\/p>\n

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I have gone for a very subtle and understated colour scheme, and pattern, as I wanted to try out doing more stitching.<\/p>\n

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Also to keep it quicker and easier for me, this time it is not bound, I simply turned it inside out. I really like this effect on this one, I think it looks understated, and practical.
\nSo this is how the last one finished, I didn’t wash that one, as it is a wallhanging, and looks great as it is, but I wanted this to have that lovely ‘lived in’ feeling, and so into the wash it went.<\/p>\n

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It looks nice, and I’m confident it could be quite successfully in the kitchen as a pot-rest, or something similar. It is mainly a lovely thick linen, so I think it would stand up to the task well, what do you think?<\/p>\n

I need to make some more pieces up a-la Blue Peter, to show the stages, I could use photos, but having actual pieces it is much easier to explain things, and to answer questions, also you can pick them up, have a fiddle and go from there.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I have not stocked up the shop<\/a> recently : (
\nI have ten bags half made, and due to a disagreement over table fees (another story), I might only be doing the Handm@de fair in Oxford now, so I don’t really if I should sit on my stock, or flood the shop, hmmmmmmm.<\/p>\n

More soon : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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