I have not been adding many quilts to the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collectiom over the past year; some from the SAQA online auction and a few from individual artists. Last week I purchased "Ellys in Malawi" by Pamela Allen, who is well represented in the Collection. Inspired by her experiences teaching last year in Africa, Pamela created a number of small and large quilts that show the places and people she saw there. Her quilts are available on her website www.pamelart.com and at www.artfullhome.com
I always prefer to purchase directly from the artist and have always been happy with the transactions.
Ellys in Malawi Pamela Allen 2019
43" W X 29" L Hand and machine pieced and appliqued. Commercial cotton prints, vintage cotton prints, hand dyes, batiks.
The rows of gold colored dots are French knots, as are the red dots on the background among the FMQ twigs with leaves.
Pamela doesn't worry about matching the background color, it is the leaves that show. More hand zig zag - sort of connect the dots - and one of many little FMQ birds that are sprinkled throughout the quilt.
Sky is roughly cut pieces of hand dye heavily hand stitched with running stitch. Machine stitched circles using coral thread on white background on the right.
All these zig zags are hand stitched with embroidery floss or perle cotton. Ladder stitch around the ear and as grass on the ground. FMQ grass and vines.
A bright solid red for the back showing knots from the hand stitching, machine quilting around the trees, and two more FMQ birds.
4 comments:
Pleased you added another lovely quilt to your Collection. Pam's work is always fun to view...many little stitches and almost hidden treasures appear as I view her little quilts. She seems to be able to turn out so many quilts with such detail constantly! Aren't we lucky to have her share so many with us.
Such a fun piece!
It's fabulous Del, Thanks for sharing it with us.
Gayle
Thanks for all these detail shots of Pamela's quilt. Pure fun seeing the work and thinking of someone having fun making this. I admire your faithful posting to your blog and it inspires me to do better. Short posts to Facebook are so simple but they don't keep the record that I love to look back on. But either Blogger or my updated computer is making it more frustrating to find my pics so my blog gets neglected. Keep it up.
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