After the AGM we enjoyed an interesting talk by Allison James as she took us on a journey through her life in stitching. Like many of us, when she was young Allison enjoyed lots of crafts and stitching and when she was older she attained a City & Guilds Certificate and Diploma, where she also learned the importance of design.
Allison went on to tell us how her husband's photographs inform her work and have led to inspirational collaborations resulting in several bodies of work.
The 'Leaves' quilt (on the right) was designed by Allison from the atmospheric photographs on the left:
This beautiful quilt - Nature's Necklace - was inspired by the photograph of raindrops suspended in a cobweb. The raindrops were expressed on the quilt by lines of French knots:
This composite photograph was used to design the quilt below, called 'The disintegration of a dandelion' :
A photograph of trees in autumn was one of the sources for this quilt, using improvisational piecing techniques :
And, finally, a wonderful quilt on the theme of 'In the bleak mid winter':
Allison's talk was very much enjoyed by everyone and was a marvellous start to our 2019-20 programme.
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