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My Quilts

 "Cats "
by Barbara Barber

Size: 87" x 87"

Winner - Viewers Choice - Quilt Hawaii 04

Now on Exhibition at The Museum of the American Quilters Society
Paducah, Kentucky, USA.

" SOLSTICE "
A Quilt by Barbara Barber
Size:  94” 94”

Solstice is primarily Orange
( sorry about the colour reproduction ! )
 

Materials: 100% cotton materials throughout including fabrics, threads and wadding.

Date Completed:  June 1994

This quilt was started on the winter solstice and I challenged myself to finish it by the summer solstice.
This was done but only just as it was finished on that day at 9 PM.  It is named Solstice
because of this as well as because of the fact that we live very near to Stonehenge in England
and this makes us much more aware of the solstice and equinox each year.  I designed a companion quilt for
Solstice at the time of completion named Equinox but time has been the problem in making
it turn into reality.  I will make it because, even now, this many years later, the design
still feels like a very valid and worthwhile undertaking.

Solstice has always been one of my own personal favourites as it has taught me so much and given
me so very many opportunities in the world of quilting.  It has won many awards and was the
basis of my first book, Really Sharp Piecing.  I have taught the “ring-piecing” technique that was
used in the small 6” sashing squares extensively and never tire of the fact that it give all levels of
quilters the ability to quickly and relatively easily produce very complex designs.  Solstice was the
first quilt that I quilted using free motion machine quilting techniques.
 

Here is a close up of the  quilting and the very fine points
 

This quilt is also featured in both my book (Now out of print - Revised version due out Spring 2004)
and video - Really Sharp Piecing

48" x 48"

1995

There is a workshop for this Quilt - Details on the Workshops page

Detail from Lilac Feathers Border

Size:  90” x 90”

Materials:  !00% cotton throughout, including fabrics, wadding and threads

Date Completed:  !996

This quilt was a personal challenge to myself in more ways than one: colour, quilting and time.
The colours were not ones that I would normally choose to work with but
I wanted to try to soften the lilac colour by intensely quilting with a green thread
to form a veil over the areas of plain lilac fabric.  The quilting was terribly important to me at the
time and I was gratified when it won awards specifically for the quality of the quilting.
This quilt was quilted in a relatively short space of time in that it took six weeks to do the actual quilting.
It took one week to design and mark the quilting pattern onto the quilt top in preparation for quilting.

30" x 18"

Goosey was a very special dog.  In her short little life she taught me many things.  These were important things about compassion,
love and selflessness as well as the more light-hearted issues such as good old fashioned “joie de vie” - Goosey was a true master of the latter.
Goosey was a dear little Jack Russell whose life was cut short by a liver condition known as portal systemic shunt.
She only lived for four years but every single moment of those four years was spent living almost as though she knew she had a limited time.
I shall never forget her and I am not alone in this as she affected everyone she met in the same way.
Goosey’s legacy is a rich one and one which I would be proud to leave behind myself.

I made this appliquéd portrait of Goosey in February 1999 and we lost her at the end of that June.

"LADYBIRDS "
A Quilt by Barbara Barber

90 " x 90 "

2001

This quilt is also featured on another page on the site - Have you found it ?

I am absolutely thrilled that this Quilt won the 1st Place Professional Mixed Technique Award
at the 2002 National Quilting Association Show  held in
        June at Charlottesville, North Carolina, USA

One of the blocks

This quilt is featured in my book Foolproof Curves

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