The Snail Garden: Festival of Quilts

Wednesday 4 September 2024

Festival of Quilts

Early August I set off for the NEC at Birmingham to meet up with my lovely friend Nicola of @bumblestitches to see The Festival of Quilts.

It was the first time either of us had been to this quilt show and we were amazed and slightly overwhelmed by the amount of quilts on display. We felt that two days were needed to really take in all the amazing work by the quilt artists. These are just a few of the quilts that caught my eye.

Christine Chester exhibit.

https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/chester

Fragile Fragments

Pure Velvet by Amy Pubst

All of the quilts displayed in this section were made of incredibly small pieces of material.

https://thequiltshow.com/see-quilts/featured-quilts/pure-velvet-amy-pabst

Artist Statement: "Each 1.5 block in this quilt has 49 pieces for a total of 21,609 pieces. The quilt was foundation pieced on a 1947 Singer Featherweight and then quilted in the ditch on a BERNINA. There are silks, silk blends, polyesters, velvets, linen blends, and cottons in this quilt."

We continued to wander around the show admiring the many quilts and looking at the stands full of lovely fabric.

Alice Gunner

Dilys Fronks

Isabel Muños

Kimberley Arnold

Melissa Sobotka

Jungmi Kim

Pascale Michalski

I think this one might have been my favourite.

Alyson Well & Frances Meredith

Some of the quilts were absolutely amazing!

Melody Collier & Sandy Chandler

Tahoe

Leah Higgins

Annika Lund

When They're Gone, They're Gone

By this point I was feeling slightly overwhelmed by the stunning quilts and started taking less photos. Next time it might be a good idea to go for two days.