Soft launching for UK & US customers.Soft launching for UK and US customers. New makers arriving all summer.
Soft launching for UK & US customers.Soft launching for UK and US customers. New makers arriving all 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 makes patchwork quilts and wall hangings in linen, from her living room in Sheffield. Her patterns come from post-war architecture and from the Bauhaus textile artists, Anni Albers and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
