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GROUP QUILT - WORLDS APART
Penny, Beverley, Mary, Lynne
Penny: I am intrigued by people, I love to sit
and people watch. In this case, I was inspired by the sight of many different faces on a London underground train - so many different colours and nationalities. Yet we all started out evolving from the same source.
We are now intermarrying, and interbreeding. There are now plenty of mixed race children. What will happen in the future? - will we all end up the same again? The thought intrigues me. Everything in life goes a full
circle, and is this just one more example?
The quilt was started as squares of colours from light in the centre to dark on the edge, reflecting the colours of nature and our various
'civilisations'.
Beverley: Penny's original inspiration about
people's faces made me want to put circles in the squares to represent different races, which can seem to be from different worlds. I linked these with lines of stitching.
Mary: Penny's piece came to me as squares with
circles on top. I felt these were complete as they were, so I decided to enlarge the work. I set it on point, slightly off-centre, adding large triangles of hand-dyed orange fabric (from an earlier hand-dyeing
session), as I felt this balanced the squares.
Lynne: I added more circles to the quilt, using
several fabrics of differing textures. I also added spirals: if you cut round into a circle, you get a spiral. I wanted to create movement with the circles and spirals.
Penny: I added more 'worlds' and some spirals. I
enhanced it with hand embroidery and hand quilting using a variety of threads.
INDIVIDUAL QUILT - FACE VALUE
Penny: Taking my love of people-watching
further, I was thinking of people with lots of hidden thought and feelings. The final quilt top is made in crazy style, with lots of tiny snippets of fabric, starting in the centre with light fabrics, moving to
darker ones at the edges. Finally I machine-quilted a profile to add development to the theme.
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