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Wendy Dolan – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features the beautiful embroidered art of textile artist Wendy Dolan.

Author & textile artist Wendy creates embroidered surfaces from layers of cloth, paint & stitch. Wendy demonstrates her stitching, layering & painting techniques and shares a few helpful tips too.

Wendy is a tutor specialising in freehand machine embroidery & creative stitching techniques.

Catch up with Wendy and her stunning artwork at The Festival of Quilts 2021.

Images courtesy: www.wendydolan.co.uk

embroidery image of layered calico and a design of the London Eye and other scenes of London
Artwork by Wendy
Wendy Dolan - embroidery image of layered calico and a design of the Brighton Pavillion
The Brighton Pavillion
Book by Wendy Dolan
Book by Wendy Dolan

This wonderful book by Wendy shares many techniques and projects – Layer, Paint and Stitch Book.

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Sabi Westoby – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features art quilts of textile artist, Sabi Westoby.

Sabi designs her own fabrics with dye & print. Her expressive and experimental approach to textiles can be seen in her ‘Uprooted’ exhibition – layers of print, paint and hand stitching.

The artworks are based on the ‘United for Intercultural Action List’, which appeared in The Guardian newspaper on 20 June 2018, World Refugee Day, recording 34,361 known refugee deaths over a 25 year period between 1993 and 2018. The works reflect her desire to acknowledge and give form and shape to the unknown men, women and children who died fleeing climate change, civil war and persecution, seeking safer lives in Europe.
Filmed at the The Festival of Quilts 2021.

In this video Sabi shares her latest work and explains the ideas and design concepts behind the collection.

Catch up with Sabi and her stunning Textile Gallery at The Festival of Quilts 2021.

Images courtesy: http://www.sabiwestoby.com

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Artwork by Sabi Westoby - Names , numbers of deaths and cause of death - The List - priinted onto cotton cloth and embroidered - overprinted with images of 'reugees' walking in crowds
Page from The List printed onto cotton cloth
Artwork by Sabi Westoby - Names , numbers of deaths and cause of death - The List - priinted onto cotton cloth and embroidered
Artwork by Sabi Westoby

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Sarah Hibbert – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features a stunning collection of Modern & Improv Quilts by artist Sarah Hibbert.

Sarah Hibbert’s eye-catching ‘Macaroons’ Quilt features on The Festival of Quilts 2020/21 posters. In this YouTube, Sarah explains how she designs her beautiful ‘Collage to Quilt’ pieces and shares a few quilts that you might see in her Textile Gallery at The Festival of Quilts 2021. Sarah has exhibited several pieces at Quiltcon.

Sarah is a member of The Modern Quilt Guild & The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. Her work has been exhibited at Quiltcon and The Festival of Quilts UK.

poster from the Festival of Quilts 2021 featuring The Macaroons Quilt made by Sarah Hibbert
The poster from the Festival of Quilts 2021 featuring The Macaroons Quilt made by Sarah Hibbert
Macaroons Quilt and another quilt made in Drunkards Pach blocks, in Linen
Macaroons Quilt and a quilt made in Drunkards Path blocks, in Linen
Crosses created in Linen cloth. Sarah uses all her scraps to create tiny artworks
Crosses created in Linen cloth. Sarah uses all her scraps to create tiny artworks
Drunkards Path quilt created in Linen
Drunkards Path quilt created in Linen sourced from Ray Stitch