Exhibition visit
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Went to the V&A quilt exhibition on Tuesday. So did many other people, probably because it finishes at the weekend!
There was an excellent collection of quilts on show, just enough to not send you glassy eyed. I like the stories behind the quilts: from soldiers who worked them as they recouperated, to prisoners counting down the days, to quilts with a social commentary of their time.My favourite section was 'Meeting the past' with the quilt made my female convict prisoners on their way to Tasmania (it was finished by the time they arrived!), and one made from black out lining and red cross food sacking (no quilting shops in those days).
I couldn't come back without a little souvenir and what better than some quilting fabric! Exhibition is on until Sunday 4th July.
ns (however expensive they are they always seem to drip water and that leaves water marks) so I always wet the piece thoroughly and iron it dry. Half an hour later however, the purple dye was still coming out of the fabric (synthetic fabric I'm thinking which is why it wouldn't hold the dye).
How many of you, when you are sitting chatting on the telephone, draw squiggles on the telephone pad, or the back of a nearby envelope? I turned one of these squiggles into an embroidery. It was fun to work something free and I chose just three colours so as to keep things simple. I adapted the doodle slightly but basically worked with what I had intuitively drawn.
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