Friday 10 January 2020

2020 Wk 2 - memories quilt

I’ve finally stitched together what looks like a fairly basic quilt

The Janet Clare fabrics really spoke to me and with her help I created some FMQ embroidered blocks of images that I associate with holidays with my father.  I added some embroidery machine designs I created that also “belonged” and put them all together this afternoon

The fabrics show very nautical images - lots of different boats - and trees and red cottages, and birds and seaweed from the island, and weather; particularly wind and rain which the west coast of Norway is well known for

There are ten or eleven embroidered squares - this Viking ship and the rose are reminders of his memorial service 18 months ago.


 These are the FMQ blocks from before

Now I just need to find time to bind it!!

I have also finished the temperature embroidery, (difficult to photograph 15 foot x 2 inches!)


 And the Red Velvet crochet has grown a bit

And a final gingerbread man has finished some weaving - and will be a pressie for a young lady who helped me with a weaving project!

5 comments:

  1. A lovely collection of memories of your father. Well done on sticking with the embroidery too! It’s great seeing all the different ways people have been recording the year in colour.

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  2. Beautiful memories quilt. So lovely to make it so personal with the lovely embroideries and stitching.
    Love your temperature 'chart' too - it looks fantastic!
    Glad to see another gingerbread man too - another busy week or two for you!

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  3. What a beautiful, personal quilt! A treasure.

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  4. Do you ever Stop Benta!!!!! Amazing amount of work in all of these.

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