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FEATURE // spotlight @40

Linda Seward
and Jan Allston,
co-ordinators of
Spotlight@40

‘40 Layers of Quilting’, Jo Avery. Region 16

‘SID’,
Anne Gosling used a crossword in the guild’s colours to Barbara
spotlight the guild membership. The quilt is machine pieced Janssen.
but the letters are hand appliquéd as is the guild logo which Region 4
is the basis of the quilting design.

Sermilik Fjord (East Greenland) was the inspiration for this
quilt being 40 degrees west of the prime meridian. Using
photographs taken whilst trekking in East Greenland a few years
ago, Lis Tate gave us a glimpse of the ice and beauty of this cold
remote place. The quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted. The
map is hand painted using Markal stick paints and the lettering
made using photographs, inkjet-printed on to cotton.

Looking at Region 3 from the air was the inspiration for Grace
Meijer, ‘the beautiful rolling landscape with its many colours
from the white chalk to the acid yellow of rapeseed and the
little hamlets and farms tucked into the hills.’ What then is the
connection to 40? The answer is that this was the area where
the guild started with its first AGM in Winchester. The quilt is
made with hand dyed cotton and machine quilted.

Jo Avery imagined the last forty years of quilting as layers of
sedimentary rock as found in an archaeological dig. The result
is forty different layers of patchwork techniques. Appliqué,
hand quilting and other embellishments have been added to ‘Circuit XL’,
represent as many aspects of quilting as possible. A fissure was Marion
created and brought back together with buttons representing McCrindle.
the ‘make do and mend’ of patchwork tradition. Region 7

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