Another FOQ find

I also stumbled on another textile artist of interest at my visit to Festival of Quilts - Gillian Travis whose work you can see on her website. She gets a lot of her inspiration from the people and scenes she comes across during her frequent travels. I'm making a trip to Krakow soon and intend to do some work based on that, so will be taking a leaf out of Gillian's book. I love her use of colour and pattern too.

Her book, of which you can find further details  on her website, also looks a great read - I just love the cover picture. Another one for the wishlist I think - a list that seems to be getting longer and longer - hope Santa's not feeling the recession TOO much...................

A few FOQ highlights

There were lots of great textiles to view at the Festival of Quilts. Here's a picture of Laura Kemshall's stunning entry (from Linda K's blog). It doesn't show up in this photo but it incorporated repeated quilted text of the simple words 'Don't Go' which I found very moving - says so much about the human condition doesn't it?

Also of note was the display of work by C June Barnes and Janice Gunner - this included some fantastic 3D artworks that are just delicious -  photos of this can be found here, again on Linda's blog which she has published with their permission. You can see more of June's work here. I love the fantastic textures she achieves and was really tempted (but restrained myself, regrettably) to buy her new book which you can read more about here - definitely one for the wish list though!

Really looking forward to catching up with the rest of the gang on Thursday :) It'll be great to get stitching again too - barely done any last few weeks - have you??