Needle And Thread

This is my quilt ‚In the distance‘, which is hanging at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. Well, I believe it is hanging there 😉 but I haven’t seen it as I have not been able to attend the festival.
I had started this quilt when schools closed in Saudi on 9th March 2020 and there is a 3“square for each day until 25th June 2020 when summer holidays started. All the pieces show my personal memories of the time or free motion quilting.

A couple of weeks ago I attended an online workshop with the German Patchworkgilde- we free machine quilted our very own Mandala design. This week I finished mine, felt it looked a bit plain and decided to paint it. I am not sure I like it better now, but the workshop and my colouring were great fun and I enjoyed ‘playing’ with it.
Now I have a new cushion in my room. 🙂

Day 9 of the Challenge: “Reflections of Arabia” is hanging in my house. I couldn’t take a picture straight from the front. This was the BOM with the Riyadh International Quilt Guild, in my first year in Saudi Arabia 2013/2014 and I enjoyed using all the different techniques that went into this Quilt.