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Quiltfest 2011
Made in Wales

Featured Artist at the International Pavilion
DeAnne Hartwell-Jones

DeAnne was in residence at the Llangollen Royal International Pavilion for the first two week of Quiltfest. She demonstrated her hand stiching skills and talked tirelessly to visitors about her skills. In the first week she was filmed by S4C TV both at her home using her traditional Welsh quilting frame and at the Pavilion talking about her quilts.
This is a selection of pictures taken during this exhibition showing Deanne's comments for each quilt.

1st of 2 Small Medallions

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As you go around the exhibition you may have gathered that I like making medallion quilts. I am a big fan of getting the geometry to fit in as the design grows. It is a challenge but well worth it. I use these two small quilts as teaching aids for colours and patterns.

Size: 0.6m x .0.6m

Large Wool Medallion

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This large Welsh flannel quilt was pieced over papers in order to control the stripes and keep them straight. Careful tacking was required to contrl the piecing. The flannels were bought from local mills and were a delight to work with as I had lovely hands from the lanolin still in the fabric. The design was based on an old Welsh wool quilt but I chose different colours.

Size: 1.93m x 1.93m


Snowdonia

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The landscape is foundation pieced using the stitch and flip method of sewing. I love my sunsets and my mountains and I had a large cache of fabric to work with in order to create the effect that I needed. I enjoyed using the fabric like a paintbrush.

Size: 1.27m x 1.14m

Queen's Golden Jubilee

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The Inspiration for the colours was taken from the uniform of the Welsh Guards. The design was made up as I went along, the dates being added with gold fabric paint. The quilt is paper pieced and hand quilted.

Size: 1.36m x 1.57m


Dresden Plate

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I loved the colours of the Irish Chain so much that I made this quilt in similar shades. It is paper pieced and hand quilted. The dark areas of the plates have moved around the quilt to give the impression of the passing of time. The corner designs I made up myself so they fall beautifully over the bed corners. 

Size: 1.45m x 2.15m

Red Wool Medallion

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This is based on an old Welsh quilt and is paper pieced and hand quilted. The colours have been chosen to represent the different flannels that were used for the traditional Welsh costume.

Size: 1.19m x 1.19m


Brown Medallion

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This scrap quilt uses the simple shapes of squares, triangles and rectangles. By using warm autimnal colurs it gives a homely feel to the quilt.

Size: 1.52m x 1.65m 

Cotton Reel

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This quilt was pieced during a cricket test match series between England and the West Indies. A scrap quilt using bright colours and bordered with a Victorian cotton velvet ribbon. Simply quilted with circles to represent the cricket ball: a lot of tacking papers can be done during a 5 day test!  

Size: 1.18 m 1.65m


 

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Garland of Welsh Ladies and Small Welsh Landscapes

Various sizes of landscapes. These are also used as teaching aids. Appliqued onto foundation.


3D Hexagon

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A scrap quilt using plain colours, which gives it quite a dramatic effect. Pieced over papers and hand quilted. This should have been a larger quilt but my daughter liked it so much and wanted it so I made two of them, which reduced the size due to the amount of material I had.

Size: 1.05m x 1.32m

Irish Chain

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I was given a pack of Liberty Tana Lawn and the pink is early Laura Ashley. I had enough fabric to make the main part of the quilt so I only had to find similar colours and prints to make the border. A lovely simple traditional pattern hand quilted with Celtic Knots.

Size: 1.60m x 2m


Pink and Blue Log Cabin

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Foundation pieced using stitch and flip and a slightly more complicated design than the basic log cabin.

Size: 1m x 1m

2nd of 2 Small Medallions

Picture
As you go around the exhibition you may have gathered that I like making medallion quilts. I am a big fan of getting the geometry to fit in as the design grows. It is a challenge but well worth it. I use these two small quilts as teaching aids for colours and patterns.

Size: 0.8m x 0.8m 


Aberaeron Harbour

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Mountain View

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  • Quiltfest 2022
    • Irene MacWilliam BEM
    • IM Quilts
    • IM Journals
    • IM Stomachers
    • Uncharted Contemporary Quilt
    • Challenge
    • Mere Kats
    • PTB
  • Previous Exhibitions
    • Quiltfest 2021 >
      • Val
      • Rebecca Collins
      • Maureen Poole
      • Gwenfai Rees Griffiths
      • Traders
      • Invited Guests
      • Reg 13 in Quilters' Guild Collection
      • Letters and Numbers
      • Landscapes
      • Flowers
    • Quiltfest 2020 >
      • 40 Years and Still Stitching
      • Song of the Celts
      • Traditional Stars
      • Cauldron
      • Ten Plus
      • Invited Members' Quilts
      • Traders' Quilts
    • Quiltfest 2019 >
      • Trading Day and Colwyn Quilters
      • Maps Exhibition
      • Just One Day Exhibition
      • In Print Exhibition
      • Modern Quilts Exhibition
      • Colwyn Quilters
      • Trading Day
    • Quiltfest 2018 >
      • Quilts at The Pavilion
      • Quilts at The Museum
      • Trading Day
    • Quiltfest 2017 >
      • 1001 Nights
      • On The Edge
      • Wrexham Tailor's Challenge
      • Miniatures
      • Make and Take
    • Quiltfest 2016 >
      • NinetiesCollection
      • Wrexham Quilting Circle
    • Quiltfest 2015 >
      • Region 13 Challenge
      • Contemporary Quilt Challenge
      • Dislocation by Contemporary Quilt Group
    • Quiltfest 2014 >
      • Barbara Howell: A Retrospective
      • Going Dutch
      • Cestrian Quilters
    • Exhibition 2013 >
      • Susan Briscoe and Friends at the Pavilion
      • Rieko Domon at the Museum
      • Cwiltcymru
      • Threadbare
    • Exhibition 2012 >
      • Ferret 2012
      • Magie Relph 2012
      • Dilys Fronks 2012
    • Exhibition 2011 >
      • Made in Wales - DeAnne Hartwell-Jones
      • Made in Wales - Other Artists
      • Passage Defined - By Design
      • Trees and Carved in Cloth - Turning Point
      • Miniatures by Sandra Goldsbrough
      • Quilts in the Library
      • Trading Day
      • Ario Workshop
    • Exhibition 2010 >
      • Effie Galletly 2010
      • Contemporary Quilt 2010
      • Liesbeth Williams 2010
      • Celtic Connection 2010
      • Borderlands 2010
      • Exhibition 2005 >
        • Travels with Cloth - New Horizons Group
        • Pat Salt 2005
        • Invited Artists 2005
      • Trading day 2010
    • Exhibition 2009 >
      • Nikki Tinkler
      • Hanging Together
      • In Response
      • Bethan Hughes
      • Peaceful Hearts
      • The French Connection
      • Kate Cawley 2009
    • Exhibition 2008 >
      • Elizabeth Brimelow 2008
      • Calendar of Kings 2008
      • Invited Artists 2008
      • Sisters' Choice 2008
    • Exhibition 2007 >
      • Chiaroscuro 2007
      • Boutis 2007
      • Hot and Cold 2007
      • Miniatures 2007
      • Invited Artists 2007
    • Exhibition 2006 >
      • Pat Storey 2006
      • Images of Wales 2006
      • Invited Artists 2006
    • Exhibition 2004 >
      • By Design 2004
      • Invited Artists 2004
    • Exhibition 2003 >
      • Edrica Huws 2003
      • Invited Artists 2003
    • Exhibition 2002
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