Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
A square wall hanging at 80 by 80 cm. This is the smaller of Elyn's square pieces, finished in OEKO-TEX certified European linen with a cotton-bamboo mix batting that gives the quilt a softer drape than straight cotton would.
The work is machine-pieced and then quilted entirely by hand, with the binding stitched on by machine and turned and finished by hand. A sleeve is stitched along the back to take a length of wooden dowel. The dowel is sold separately at most hardware shops.
Elyn approaches each square the way one of her Bauhaus references would have done. The composition has to read clean from across the room. The hand quilting then becomes the second pass, holding the geometry and giving the piece its texture up close. The undyed linen ground does most of the work; the pieced blocks supply the colour.
This is a single, finished piece. The composition will not be remade.
A square wall hanging at 80 by 80 cm. This is the smaller of Elyn's square pieces, finished in OEKO-TEX certified European linen with a cotton-bamboo mix batting that gives the quilt a softer drape than straight cotton would.
The work is machine-pieced and then quilted entirely by hand, with the binding stitched on by machine and turned and finished by hand. A sleeve is stitched along the back to take a length of wooden dowel. The dowel is sold separately at most hardware shops.
Elyn approaches each square the way one of her Bauhaus references would have done. The composition has to read clean from across the room. The hand quilting then becomes the second pass, holding the geometry and giving the piece its texture up close. The undyed linen ground does most of the work; the pieced blocks supply the colour.
This is a single, finished piece. The composition will not be remade.
Elyn Middleton works from her living room in Sheffield, sewing patchwork quilts and wall hangings out of fine linen. The drawings on her sketchbook come from post-war architecture; the names she keeps coming back to are Anni Albers and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
