We had the full multimedia experience when Neroli Henderson spoke at our July Meeting. Her quilts are not overly large but she was able to show us the detail on screen as well as seeing the quilt ably held by her assistant, Taylor.
Neroli is an artist who has come to working in textiles from a painting background.
She has a lot of experience in painting on fabric and then stitching and this will be the approach taken in her workshop in August. Her most recent work uses her photography, particularly of the human form. She has it printed on silk then quilts densely with machine stitching, often including text, as these pieces contain a message about the human experience.
At the end of the meeting members were keen to see these small works up close.
Profiled Member
We learn a little more about one of our members each meeting and this month Margaret bought a selection of her quilts.
Margaret does her own quilting and shared a few tips she has learned at various workshops. The first is to draw the quilting design on to lunch wrap, pin it to the quilt sandwich and stitch through. The second is how to create a quilting design to fit perfectly along a border. Cut a strip of paper the size of the border, fold in half and repeat until it is the size of the element you want to use. Draw the design, stitch through all the layers with no thread in the needle. When opened you have a pattern that will fit your border exactly.
Show and Tell
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- Anne – four tops,
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- given by a friend
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- now complete and going
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- to Quilts of Valour
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- A Morell Quilt – completed by Anne
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- Julie Wallace pattern – Ronnie
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- Quilts for the Childrens Hospital – Val
