Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday.

I am interrupting regular scheduled programming to bring you another instalment of the Out of Africa quilts I saw on the weekend. I just cannot share them with all of you.  The ones today are all fairly heavily embellished with either beading, hand embroidery or strings/wire of some sort.

The one at the top of the page had absolutely exquisite beading in the dress – every bead was perfectly aligned. They the all fell below the bottom of the piece making for a great line to follow with the eye as well as the lines in the quilt matching the lines in the dress.

This next one was phenomenal in that the images within the quilt were all made with french knots. Yes, french knots. I do believe there were 60,000 of them – you read right – 60,000 french knots. Can you imagine how long that would take – it takes me long enough to make 3.

All the figures are made with french knots

A close up of the french knots.

There was fine wire, thread or line of some sort that dropped down the length of the whole piece on this one. Each line was evenly spaced and created a fine texture over the piece.

Can you see the lines of metal running down the front of the quilt

There were many quilts with hand embroidery on them. The stitching was done very heavily to create a look like this one below. Sorry I do not a photo of the whole quilt only the turtle.

Exquisite stitching

Another beaded gem with dangling chains and beads.

And finally one that had no extra beading or embellishment and no sign. I have no idea who made it or what it was called but I loved it. The colour and curved piecing gives the quilt lots of movement.

I still have more photos to share but I’ll save those ones for another time when we all need a bit of inspiration. There was a whole display of 12 x 12 inch quilts – now were they something. I know stop teasing.

I’ll return to regular scheduled programming next week.

Happy Quilting!