Review of our Group Exhibit "Liebe geht durch den Faden"

For those of you who weren't able to visit in person here are a few pictures of how our group exhibit of last September looked.

Our group of seven ladies is named verquiltet and meets regularly since almost ten years in Basel, Switzerland. We meet for Show & Tell, for mutual inspiration, for helping each other, and for sharing our joy and passion for quilting.

We all have our own projects we work on, our own voices and preferences, our own techniques, but in the end we all need a thread to hold everything together. Thus the name for our first group exhibit:

Liebe geht durch den Faden / Love runs through the thread

The location was at openart-galerie.ch

From left: Ursula, Christine, me Pasqualina, Gaby, Katharina. Missing are Fiorina and Jeanne

Enjoy!

Thank You to all visitors who made this experience such a rewarding one for our group.

Much love to you!

Group exhibit ahead !

Since almost ten years I've been the host of a quilting group. We meet monthly at my house for Show & Tell and group activities to sparkle our creativity related to quilting.

For the first time we'll be showing some of our individual works all of us together in a group exhibit!
We are excited to see how our personalities will shine through. We have different styles, use different techniques, follow different purposes, but we all have the same love for the thread that keeps everything together. Thus the name of our show: Liebe geht durch den Faden, i.e. Love goes through the thread!

Come by if you can!

What's going on here?

As you may have noticed I had not updated this blog since end 2021.

In case you wondered, I'm fine and still quilting away. I'm just not taking the time for posting here any more. I may return or even start a new blog one day but for now I'm trying to keep up with my website and posting progress on Instagram.

This however is the last quilt I made in 2021. 

Ma forêt de Saint-Maurice 

Saint-Maurice was the Swiss village where I attended a workshop and made this mini quilt.
The workshop was organised by Patchwork du Léman and Marianne Bender-Chevalley was the teacher.

28 x 40 cm

I will keep posting pictures of finished quilts on the page Quilts from 2022 onwards but without further details. 

If you want to stay connected or keep looking for inspiration please follow me on my Instagram page  @ergo_ago_pasqualina where I go deeper and discuss my work.

See you!

Breakout // a finished quilt and its journey

And here is the completed quilt. I named it Breakout. Not to be confused with outbreak. I am rather pleased by how abandoning the first idea led to this totally unplanned and unforeseen result. You'll have to read through the last two posts to understand where this is coming from.

Breakout, 163 x 113 cm
epp and machine piecing, machine quilted, my original design made up as I went.

To me the term breakout has both, a positive and a negative connotation and leaves room for interpretation. I myself remain undecided about what is going on in this quilt. But I tend to think positively. Especially after introducing the five appliquéd squares. I like to think of them as the odd ones that don't follow the rules. They have freed themselves from constraints and expectations and are floating towards adventures only the brave can experience.

The quilting of the straight lines forming a sort of tangled net is in the background suggesting the pieces are floating above the net, having somehow managed to free themselves. They broke out of what was holding them back. The odd ones have already gone a step further. The echo quilting in the zig-zag fabric enhances the dynamic forces going on.

You can read more about the backing fabric in the previous post.

Breakout will be a constant reminder that improvisation can lead to surprising and satisfying results. While I like to plan ahead in life and in some quilt designs too, I also think that it's best to cultivate both approaches. Lucky the ones that know when to set rules and when to let go. And are able to process.

While Breakout and Why Not? are the result of an improvisational approach and process, I'm already planning my next quilt. Thoroughly planning ahead this time. Breakout and Why Not? started with no vision of how the final quilt would look. For my next quilt I have a clear vision (except for the quilting) and a very detailed plan. I'm looking forward to the different creation process and we'll see if my vision materializes in the end.

recent epp that completely changed direction // part 2

I decided to quilt in three different ways. Along the seams of the cut up fabric containing the epp squares, shadow quilting on the large scale zig-zag fabric to enhance the dynamic movement, and a kind of a background web in all the small scale zig-zag. Lots of stops and gos with zillions threads to bury. 

I'll talk more about the idea behind the quilting when posting the finished quilt. As this detail of the back shows I used two different thread colors. That was a conscious design choice that probably nobody will ever notice. Maybe I could have gone bolder with one thread color. As said in the previous post, discarded options are gone and I'll never know how another choice would have looked.

No second thoughts about my choice of binding though.

As I'm posting this the binding is all done. The only thing left to do is to stitch the label and take proper pictures of the finished quilt. Hoping for good daylight and free time to coincide soon.