Region 3 from the Air
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- Maker:
- Grace Meijer
- 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.
The landscape of Region 3 was the inspiration for this piece - the beautiful rolling landscape with its many colours, from the white chalk to the acid yellow rapeseed and the little hamlets and farms tucked into the hills. It is also the area where The Guild started; the first AGM was held in Winchester. It is made with hand dyed cotton, freehand cut, sewn into strips and cut again. Wavy lines of machine quilting accentuate the hilly landscape.
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’.
Commissioned by Region 3 (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight, Channel Islands).
40 inches (102cm) x 32†(81cm)
