Ancestral Gifts - Kaffe Fassett & The Quilters' Guild Collection

You'll need to do a quick dash to the Quilt Museum in York if you want to catch this exhibition - it finishes on 5 September 2015.

Kaffe Fassett, Patron of the Quilters' Guild, has, over the last two years, explored the Guild's historic collection and selected 15 quilts which have inspired him to design 15 new quilts.  The old and new quilts are displayed together with Kaffe's comment on the old quilt and the Guild's comment on the new.

Here's a few tasters ...

Hearts & Crosses Coverlet 1875-1900 - Maker Unknown

Organic Radiation - Kaffe Fassett

Kaffe's brightly coloured and highly patterned fabrics make his quilts sing but the exhibition also brings a new appreciation of the historic quilts with their fantastic detail and the hours of work that went into them.

Elderton Log Cabin Coverlet c. 1890 - Maker Unknown

Autumn Crosses - Kaffe Fassett

Tailor's Samples Canadian Red Cross Quilt 1939-1945 - Canadian Red Cross Society

Dark Wagga Wagga - Kaffe Fassett

Embroidered ribbon for inspiration

Kaffe Fassett designed ribbons

Get down there!

 PS Love the stairs! 

(If you miss the exhibition there is a book available from the Quilt Museum entitled "Ancestral Gifts" which illustrates the pairs of quilts)

"Dress to Impress" - A Round Up of the Community Banners on York City Walls

Clifford's Tower (detail from Nest of Makers banner)

I think you'll all agree that the 5m long community banners which appeared on York's City Walls as part of the "Dress to Impress" project were impressive.  You may still have time to see them.  But if not here are the ones I've seen.

By Lendal Bridge Archway ...

York Community Artists

SMTIM - Children in Care Council

River Foss Society

York Environment Forum

York Greenpeace

Canon Lee School

From the West Offices Archway to Toft Tower opposite the Railway Station ...

Planet South Bank

Howehill

Holgate Windmill

31st St Hilda's Brownies

Edible York

Breast Cancer Campaign

Refugee Action York

Fulford Barracks Youth Club

St Nicks Fields

Accessible Arts & Media

1st Heslington Brownies

Quilt Museum & Gallery

Community Sparks

York Time Bank

Beehive Pre-school

Fulford Brownies

Albion Avenue Club

York Retreat

Growing Together

Haxby Road Children's Centre

Nest of Makers (the group I belong to!)

St Leonard's Hospice

York Carnival/York Curioser

From Toft Tower to Micklegate ...

Occasional Painters

St Oswald's Creative Writing Club

Clifton Parish Church

Samaritans

Artbus 2

Playtime Speech Unit

Copmanthorpe Youth Club

York Pride

Community at Carr

Home Educators

York Carers' Forum with Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors

1st Heslington Rainbows

Choose 2

Victoria Bar - outside & in ...

Blankettes

Good Humour Ladies Club

International Service

Acomb Recovery Unit

Bishopgate ...

Fulford Tots

Kyra Women's Project

Artbus

I Can Sing & FIS

City of York Council

Poppleton Under 5s

1st Stockton on the Forest Brownies

Haxby Road After School Club

Quilters' Guild

BKs

The "Dress to Impress" project has been run by Emily Harvey for City of York Council and has been part of the welcome for the Grand Départ in York.  The banners have been created by residents & community groups as part of a partnership project between City of York Council and the Quilt Museum and is part of the York: Be part of it programme.  

As well as all the hard work done by the Community Groups who decorated their banners, a big thank you must go to volunteers at the Quilt Museum who made the banners so they could be decorated and to all those who helped to hang them on the City Walls.

Currently Emily is looking for a venue to exhibit them all together after which they will be returned to the groups that made them.