QUILTCON: Handwork

I think it is so lovely the modern movement has a special section for handwork when more traditional shows don't.

Detail: the hand quilting on the top layer is all that secures the colourful fabrics underneath

Heidi Parkes: But I need to remember
Incorporates inherited and new fabric: a quilt full of resonance.

Tara Faughnan: Courthouse Steps
Two years ago I remember Tara's quilts as quite complex. The two I saw this reverted to a
stripped down simplicity and plainness

Detail of minimal hand quilting

Tara Faughnan:String Star Quilt
She had been working wiith star shape and made this to deal with a build up of strips.
Hand quilted