- What Ann Rippin did on Sunday afternoon
This is a detail of a little piece that I made on Sunday afternoon. I rather fancied making a version of a small quilt by the Swedish quilter, Lina Wilk, I saw on the front of The Quilter this month. So I sat down and had a go working on a piece of bamboo wadding. I did the majority of it with the embellisher, this is a machine I have a love hate relationship with. I broke two needles even on a small piece like this. But I did enjoy machine stitching into it. I have started to make landscape type quilts with embroidery and beads which are meant to suggest ancient landscapes underneath those visible to us on the ground. I like the idea that the little pieces are maps to ancient burial sites – all from my imagination, of course. This took me a couple of hours to make and apart from having to replace needles was just a delight to do. I was very happy with the buildings which were made from thick furnishing fabric but when quilted they looked like shingled buildings. I would like to make some more of these landscape pieces and put them in simple box frames.
This is absolutely beautiful – oh to have such talent and such Sunday afternoons