FOQ Birmingham

This is the third time that I went  to Birmingham for the Festival of Quilts (FOQ),to get inspired for my own future work. Over 1000 Quilts were participating in different competions. I compeated with two quilts. The Muzzle, inspired by the sweat waler mussle ,that still lives in some  few rivers  above the polar circle in the North of Sweden. I was facinated by their circle of propagation and how they coexist with the salmon fishes. A mussel can get over 200 years and existed in the same time as during the era of Dinosaurus.

I also compeated with Birches, some details is following here.

The Birch is the most common leave tree in Sweden. Since it is so common we have a tendency not to see it's beauty and many of us have forgotten what this tree can offer except of heating our houses and  constitute wood for beatiful furniture etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark 

Both pieces were discharged with Thiox and Formosol.

The best of Birmingham this year was all the different special exhibitions, arranged by SAQA, European Art Quilt, 4th European Quilt-Triennale and EQA.

The Quilt Art ( you can see more to the right in this blog),was the fuar most interesting exhibition this year.

Margaret Ramsay one of my english quilt friends exposed an exquisite quilt, which was ,honored highly commended, which means she was right behind the winner. Margaret ,is a great artist and her blog is one of the most generous and instructing blogs you can find. http://magsramsay.blogspot.com/

I also had a workshop on Paper Lamination with Sarah Welsby during three days and I will come back with another post telling you about it