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Thursday 10 September 2015

Vexed by vexillography

Vexillology quilt

Our quilt group will have its tri-ennial exhibition from 23- 25 October in the Landmark Centre in Teddington.  We always try to have at least one group challenge to display, and have successfully had Round Robin challenges in the past.  I blogged in 2014 about my challenge to the group and the quilt above is the result.  No new fabrics bought, all from stash, or contributed by participants.

I have used this piece to practise several different quilting patterns and am very pleased with how it has turned out, (46 x 46 inches).

Border quilting with machine embroidered binding

Vexillology quilt

Mixed designs in one block.

Vexillology quilt

Superb applique dragon by one of the participants (thanks, Kay!) with flame quilting and geometric continuous pattern in the sashing to tone down the black

Vexillology quilt

Feathers and stipple - always useful.

Vexillology quilt

I gave participants these web sites as resources for the design of flags.

http://flagdesigner.appspot.com/#d=3&c1=4&c2=7&c3=2&o=11&c4=5&s=14&c5=7

 

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/game/tools/flag-maker

 

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1908091/

4 comments:

  1. WOW! Love the borders, love, love, love the quilting! It looks amazing!

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  2. Love it, the dragon is superb, but really it is all fantastic. Well done!

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  3. ...and the challenge to readers is to find out that vexillography is the art and practice of designing flags...

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  4. Lovely to see this again- really gorgeous! x looking forward to the show

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