Fiona Scores a Winning Goal!
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- Maker:
- Fiona Wyatt
- Date:
- 2019
Contemporary quilt commissioned for The Forties Collection, a body of work representing contemporary quiltmaking across the U.K. in the 40th anniversary year of The Quilters' Guild.
This piece was made by Young Quilter Fiona Wyatt, who chose the subject of football because she loves the sport and would like, one day, to be a football player. This means she has to practice and learn to improve her skills. She thought, as she was learning to sew with her Grandma, that she would try to challenge her sewing skills by creating a piece showing a girl footballer scoring a winning goal to celebrate 40 years of The Quilters’ Guild.
The Forties Collection quilts were made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. The 18 regions of The Guild are represented, as well as the three age groups of Young Quilters. Each piece was a new work specially made by a Guild member not already represented in The Collection. The makers were asked to interpret the theme of 40 as creatively as possible. The rule was that the finished piece had to have one dimension of 40 inches and between 25 and 40 inches in the other dimension. These pieces were exhibited at the Festival of Quilts in 2019 in a gallery entitled ‘Spotlight@40’.
Young Quilters, Age 5 - 9 category.
12 inches (30.5) x 12 inches (30.5cm)
