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A New Challenge | Making Quilt Letters | trying appliqué for the first time!

The Last Homely House

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What a wonderful challenge this project has been. When Adam (my daughter Martha’s partner) asked if I wanted to participate in his gallery exhibition, with his art collective The Foundation Press, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead, I was absolutely thrilled to be involved! It took some careful figuring out and a very helpful FaceTime with the marvellous Jo Avery, to settle on the quote and the style of lettering I used in the end. I love how collaborative this whole process has been, but also how ‘me’ it still is. I have made these appliqué letters out of my ‘made’ scrap fabric - one of my very favourite things to do. I hope you enjoy watching the evolution of this project!

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The music in this video was chosen from Epidemic Sound and is called - Your Colour and I Remember Us.

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Love
Kate xxx

20 Comments

@suedale1865 5 months ago

So pleased to see this saying in blocks on your quilt “ OUT OF YOUR HEAD & INTO YOUR HANDS “
This was my mothers mantra when I was younger in my teens she passed away when I was 21 & I am 79 next month so it’s been with me for many many years & so apt at worst of times & the good times
Big virtual hug 🫂💕💐

@mignonneparfitt1684 5 months ago

More magic from Kate. How I love being part of this community sharing our love for sewing and creativity ❤

@kathygroves4174 5 months ago

Thank you Kate, for taking us on this journey with your family on this quilt, can’t wait to see it hung up at the ‘ Baltic’ ! 😊

@Summmerdayy 2 months ago

What a lovely and wonderful family and friends you have!

@onsenfousputain7467 1 month ago

What a work! You inspire me so much! I absolutely love to see all the creative steps leading to the end of a project! I can't wait to start my own first quilt! No idea what i could do, there's too many great inspirations and ideas!

@Pam.Sandlin 5 months ago

I can’t wait to see it finished! It’s awesome!

@lorenesinclair456 5 months ago

congratulations for being part of an intriguing project! I wanted tell you you’ve inspired this old dog. I learned a new trick from you! Here’s my English paper pieced tea cosy!!

@SharynEllis-x1h 5 months ago

My mum volunteered my very amateur quilting talents to a friend whose husband was in a wheelchair. So a lap quilt with the colours and letters of his Alma mater. Letters were such a job, but what a sense of accomplishment when finished. I hope you feel the same.

@yvonneiversen8749 5 months ago

I really love that you have incorporated your phrase into this project and can’t wait to see the finished result. As always Kate I sew enjoy 😊 watching you.❤

@Mary-e3n5h 5 months ago

Kate, that’s absolutely beautiful! Love to make fabric like this to work into different projects! I have all but abandoned traditional color placement in quilts! All I had to do was to change what I called leftover material from scraps, to pixies! We’ve learned to hate scraps. Box them up and put them in a corner, neglect and despise them. Small bits and pieces of fabric that we once loved to make a quilt with. But I quit calling them scraps and started calling them Pixies! It gave them a whole new life! They became collaborations of various designers fabrics, mischievously playing with one another until a new fabric is produced! Like the little fairies that they are, they create a pixel of color, that our eyes turn into pictures. That is what is happening, at “ the last homely house”! Your little, “ Pixies”, are creating something beautiful! No more calling them scraps!

@FoD2001 5 months ago

Oh, I love making fabric this way! It never ceases to amaze me how a pile of scraps becomes a usable piece of fabric. Lovely video! X

@b6kf367 4 months ago

Congrats on Baltic exhibition! It's unreal to see your artwork there, so excited to see your piece in real life. Cheers!

@karawitcher1326 5 months ago

Oh Kate, it's a blessing to have family, extended family and artists wh9 become friends, to aid in this wonderful creation, and collaboration. You've spoken of " Get out of your head and into your hands" for years now. What a lovely saying, to remind people that creating with your hands is such a Zen relaxing mode of being, while working with your hands.
I can't wait to see the end result

@Helen-p7s8s 5 months ago

I never get tired of watching what your doing. All your projects are always interesting you share so much of your knowledge with all of us. Thank you 👏❤️

@trician9964 5 months ago

Am loving the wisdom of get out of your head and into your hands, I have heard you say it before and it has resonated.

@deblepley7755 5 months ago

You followed the saying by making your own fabric ❣️ You could have simply cut ready made but you got into your head and design your own. Absolutely magnificent. Can’t wait to see this finished 🥰🤭❤️❤️❤️