Christmas Workshop 2010

On the left is Dorothy in pressing mode.











Below, right: Chris is concentrating hard on machine-stitching, while Jose is doing I'm not sure what!














It was a good day and everybody completed their Stained Glass Xmas Tree decoration.

Jeanne's Patchwork Quilt Completed

Jeanne's amazing Rainbow Tumbling Blocks quilt has been completed and put on her bed. It would really need a full-frontal shot to do it justice as it's difficult to see from this angle how subtley the the colours in the four sections have been blended. Jeanne had started on this major project, all stitched by hand, before she joined Brown House Quilters but was able to get some help and advice in quilting it and finishing it to superb effect.

Brown House Quilters - work in progress

It all begins round the kitchen table at The Brown House. Then they take their work home and come back with it all magically finished!
Sometimes they take it really seriously and work hard. But not always!
Notice that the work is fuelled by copious amounts of tea and biscuits.

Jeannne's Patchwork Quilt - details

Upper picture shows a detail of the front of the patchwork; lower picture shows the reverse after the papers have been removed.

Jeanne's Patchwork Quilt

Jeanne brought this patchwork to show other Brown House Quilters when she first joined the class. She'd been working away at it, by hand and without any tuition, for ages. It's a classic example of English patchwork, worked over paper templates. When we saw it, everyone was impressed with the artistry she'd brought to the arrangement of the fabrics, so that the simple, basic Tumbling Blocks pattern was transformed into an exciting piece of textile art.

After getting so much positive feed-back from the class, Jean has been inspired to complete the project; she has chosen border fabic which complements the colour and design of the main field and intends to finish the quilt by the tying method.