Another ancient UFO bites the dust

Many moons ago there was a quilt competition. About 1994 I think. Quilts had to be a specific size 90cm x 125cm (35 1/2" x 49"). Many hundreds of entries were received and a large number of these were juried in to a huge exhibition held in the Sydney Opera House. Of these 40 were selected to go in the book and also to be a part of a travelling exhibition touring around Australia for about 4 years. The exhibition was shown in regional areas and country towns that wouldn't normally have the opportunity to see a quilt exhibition. I was fortunate to have a quilt selected. Because it was an acquisitive exhibition the quilt was no longer mine so at the time I made a duplicate. The quilt titled 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' was air brushed using fabric paint and hand quilted with heavy black crochet cotton around the main shapes. The duplicate never progressed further than a top so when I came across it recently languishing at the bottom of a pile of UFO's I decided to drag it out and quilt it. Only 15 years late. Got done eventually.

I got a little sliver of it showing on the cover.
At the time I made it, it was very unusual for me to do anything so 'arty'. I had been playing around with a recently acquired air brush and compressor and was doing a lot of fabric dyeing and printing with leaves and found objects around this time.

Another Journal Quilt and a UFO finally finished

I've been so busy quilting the last couple of weeks I've neglected the blog. This is one of the pieces I finished recently. It's another journal quilt for the Aus/Nz Artquilters Group. We don't necessarily have to do the monthly themes in order so this is actually the June theme - The Centre. These journal quilts are A4 size and quite fun to work on.

As I was doing this I remembered a quilt top that I did many years ago along similar lines and never really finished off so I dragged it out and was inspired to finish it. The background green is piece I hand dyed. The black border was sewn around it and then I printed with grevillea leaves using gold fabric paint. The 'woven' bits are actually cut from the one piece of fabric that I dyed and appliqued after the printing. I felt it didn't stand out from the background very well in places so I ended up couching a heavy metallic thread along the edges. The title is 'Unravelled'. I'd love to hear your comments.