Thursday, February 4, 2010

Specialist quilting talk - 6 February 2010

http://www.briefingwire.com/pr/specialist-quilting-talk-by-jann-olsson-the-quilter

Check out my media release!

http://www.briefingwire.com/pr/jann-olsson-launches-new-exhibition

and

http://www.trinityvalley.org.au/calendar/recent.php

10792 quilt



The reason? This quilt is comprised of 10, 792 individual, hand cut, hand sewn and hand placed hexagons. Three miles of thread! It took me 14 months of work to do and became increasingly addictive. I started off small but enjoyed the process so much that I kep going and it is a king sized quilt. The beauty of such small squares was the mobility - I could carry a small tupperware box with my supplies and do it on the road. I took 500 overseas and quilted my way around the UK.

I enjoyed doing this so much that I started my second quilt two days after completing this one.