Welsh Road trip 2009 part Two

Sorry about the backdrop to Mery. I wasn't supposed to be showing you the Bathroom. Dog bowls and blankets courtesy of the hotel.


We set off from Llanidloes that Sunny afternoon in September. It really is a beautiful part of Wales with rolling green countryside. We arrived at our dog friendly hotel. Falcondale Mansion.
We took tea on the terrace and the manager came out to enquire about Mery and told me of all the lovely walks around. Mery was in good company that day as their were three cocker spaniels staying there. She felt very at home with her spaniel cousins, also she had come back to her roots being a Welsh Springer Spaniel.
It was a lovely room over looking the back part of the garden and needless to say it was very nice. We felt spoilt. After a very nice 5 course dinner it was bed time - It was off to the Jen Jones quilt museum in the morning.

Till next time.
Sue

Road trip to Wales 2009

Last September We took ourselves off on a road trip to Wales to see two exhibitions. One in Llanidloes at the Minerva Arts Centre. They have a different exhibitions each year. Some art quilts from textiles artist's, contemporary quilts, welsh quilts and last year were some American quilts. The American quilts always interest me from the fabric point of view. I love the blue quilt, you can see it has a bad water mark at in the top left hand corner. I know I should have taken notes on where they came from and if the makers name was known but didn't I will try to do better from now on if I am to write my blog.
I felt a little under pressure as it was a very hot day and I had taken Mery with me and had to leave her outside in the car with the windows slightly open. I don't like doing this on a hot day as dogs can soon become hydrated. It was literally a flying visit and we continued on our journey to Lampeter to visit the newly opened Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre which I will cover in my next post.

Till next time.
Sue

Quilting on the Washington to Obama Quilt

 
 

Lori asked how the Washington to Obama was quilted in the top panel. Well I hope you can see from these close ups. It is just quilted around his head, The D of I has a an eagle quilted on it although you can't see it to well from the front so am showing you the back for a better view.

Washington To Obama 220 Years

I have been seeing lots of these Commemorative quilts made from Nancy Gere's Old Glory 1V on blogs just recently so I thought I would show mine.
My friend gave me the panel of Washingtons head and the Declaration of Independance fabrics for my birthday in 2009. As my birthday was the day after the Barak Obama Inauguration took place I decided to name this quilt Washington to Obama 220 years.
I entered it in Quilts UK at Malvern in 2009 under the category the Stars and Stripes. I chose the civil war soldier block and entered the names of 13 American presidents in the centre of each block. Although it didn't win any prizes I was pleased that Chris liked it ( he is the husband of Fiona) who owns the AMERICAN QUILT STORE. Chris is American and Fiona is originally from Scotland and they come over to the UK a couple of times a year and trade at quilt shows. I always make a bee line for the stand to see what lovely repro's they have on offer.
The Obama- Biden label I have on the back was a free download from Barbara Brackmans site.
Till next time .
Sue

Doll Quilt

The Top
The Back

I see from other blogs that their has been a lot of talk about doll quilts lately so I thought I would show you the only antique one I have- but it does have a little surprise.
I bought this little cot/doll quilt along with three other full size quilts when I was in Florida in January 2005.
We had driven up to Mt Dora to the Antiques & Collectors Extravaganza. Rennigers . I found this little quilt in a wooden crib. The dealer wanted to sell the crib to me as well, but as I couldn't carry a crib back to the UK we struck a deal and I just bought the quilt. It was a lovely little crib, I hope it found a good home eventually.

The top has late 1800's fabrics but a 1930's feedsack border. When you turn it over it is all feedsack.It has no batting in it. So what do you think happened? I guess someone took pity on the original top and decided to recycle it in the 30's.
I like it because of its naivety. Whats your thoughts?

Sue