One thing
April 2021, @zakfoster.quilts and @amandanadigart #PostcardQuilt project - exchange postcards, and then make a quilt inspired by the postcard we received. I received these two gorgeous postcards from @gillym52 and sent her these two rather loud cards!
I was intrigued by the subtlety of Gilly's green card, and particularly the fabric used for the oval - what was that?
Tea bags! Gilly kindly taught me about this on a call, and I just knew I had to try it as part of my response! My quilt used patched silk top and back, with cotton batting, and appliquéd teabags (the applique stitches are also quilting stitches).
The final virtual quilt of quilts was amazing!
Leads to another
May 2021, @mendingchloe and Sam @threads_of_my_life started a new #ScrapSwapCommunity project, and I was paired up with Anna-Lisa @mycraftycountrylife. - again exchanging postcards, and then making a quilt inspired by the postcard we received. Anna-Lisa sent me a beautiful postcard and a bundle of scraps of interesting fabrics, colours and textures that took me away from my usual choices.
I sent Anna-Lisa a postcard made with some of my left over tea-bag fabric. This postcard is all about #community and the overlapping relationships and interconnections between all of us. Wherever we are in the world.
For my quilt using Anna-Lisa's bundle of fabrics, I took inspiration from @dottie_doodle 's gorgeous tiny Kawandi quilt, I riffed on those ideas on my quilt top.
For the batting I played around with tea bag fabric circles left over from a previous project. Each layer has its own story to tell and history to reveal. The square patches on the outside, and the circles on the inside hide and reveal different things in the same way that relationships in communities are connected in ways not everyone is aware of.
Leads to another
This finished small quilt then went on to become the hybridity vignette, part of my Vignettes Quilt, Fragmented Practice.
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