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FEATURE // spotlight @40

FEATURE // spotlight @40

Left: ‘Region 3 from the Air’, Grace Meijer
Below: ‘Belonging’, Lesley Brankin. Region 11

Left: ‘Spotlight on the Guild’,
Anne Gosling. Region13

Jan collected all the quilts. Together, she and Linda set up the
gallery at the 2019 Festival of Quilts revealing a wide variety
of stunning contemporary pieces. Linda said, ‘Jan and I spent
a very exciting four days together in the gallery and everyone
that came was fascinated by the way the challenge was
interpreted.’ The concept of ‘40’ was explored in a wide variety
of ways using textiles, paint, stitches and other materials.
Quilts made forty years ago were very different from those
made today. No doubt forty years from now the quilt makers
will be using techniques and textiles not yet invented!

One quilt, where every single inch has a message was ‘40
Endangered in 40’ by Melanie Missin-Keating. She pointed
out that ‘in the forty years since The Quilters’ Guild began, the
forty animals, plants and insects shown in this quilt have all
become endangered to the point of extinction. Will they be
extinct in the next forty years? Can we save them?’ Melanie
used machine embroidery, hand stitching, printing onto
‘Sermilik Fjoord’, Lis Tate. Region 14 interfacing, transfer dyes and Bondaweb.

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