Another great Retreat with Lilian Hedley on North Country Quilting

Today is the last day of this biannual retreat.  

After being introduced to some of Lilian quilts - which you can see a small snippet here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2N80TP-Img

Lilian allowed the students to start choosing their traditional patterns - these include feathers, Durham running feather, Weardale chain, Weardale wheels, bellows, lovers knots,  etc

The students traced these onto greaseproof paper to start designing their quilt middles and corners.  When their paper patterns were complete they ink them in then transfer to fabric. the last job is adding in the square diamonds before layering up and starting to quilt.

The students have been working hard over the last few days to get as much done as possible before they depart today.

Here are some class pics -

 Caroll transferring her design to fabric

Dee starting the quilting on one of the strips of her strippy quilt

A Strippy pattern

 Lilian helping transfer

 Lilian & Julie

 Nanny marking up her fabric. Nanny came all the way from Holland to take the course.

Inger & Veslemøy from Norway who made the long journey for the course.

Lilian with all the students

Lilian Hedley - North Country Quilting - October 2014

Today sees the start of the Lilian Hedley retreat at The Royal Bridlington. 

After dinner, some of the students were desperate to see some of Lilian Quilts, So Lilian gave a little introduction to some of her collection.

Here is a little taster....


CLICK HERE to see Lillian introducing some of her quilts



Details of our workshops and retreats can be found here http://www.quiltsandwich.co.uk/#!workshops/c24c2 

Quilting of the Traditional Kind

Before we all started buying sewing machines and then longarm quilting machines, quilts were traditionally made by hand.

Lilian Hedley is the leading expert on Durham Quilting which is sometimes called North Country Quilting and she studied under Amy Emms.

On the one day course with Lilian, after seeing and touching a variety of quilts - some new, some old and some antique, you will be guided into designing a cushion cover and marking out your fabric ready for quilting.

Lilian provides a variety of templates to borrow and she will even teach you how to draw the Durham Running Feather by using old coins.

On the residential course you can start a larger project - a wholecloth of any size or a strippy quilt.

Sometimes students have a preferance for a Welsh style quilt - no problem. Lilian has templates for their designs too - but beware, there is more work involved!

When you have your fabric marked out, its time to layer up your quilt ready for quilting.  If you wish to have your top , wadding and backing basted on the longarm this can also be arranged. The backing fabric and wadding needs to be at least 4 inches bigger than the quilt top. More details of this service are available on www.quiltsandwich.co.uk

then its time start quilting....

Here is Lilian demonstrating her quilting frame

Lilians next workshop and retreat is 12th -16th October 2014. Contact fiona@royalhotelbrid.co.uk for the leaflet.

Lilians also has some books of templates which are available from her website -
http://lilian-hedley-quilter.com/

Before Lilian departed for home, we decided to make a YouTube video of Lilian demonstrating how to draw feathers.

you can view our efforts here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaRvjiMHQQ&feature=em-upload_owner#action=sharer

Lilian will be teaching here again 12th/13th/14th /15th October 2014.

Feathers, Dog Roses, Weardale Chains & more...........

We are quilting again.  The amazing Lilian Hedley is here with us this week.
Lilian in an expert in Durham Quilting or North Country Quilting as its sometimes called. She is a mind of information and knoweledge and she was trained to quilt by the infamous Amy Emms. She is also an honorary member of The Quilters Guild.

On Sunday we had some ladies join us for just one day and they learnt how to draw Durham Running Feathers and some other designs, then how to mark out and quilt a cushion cover ready for hand quilting.

The other ladies are here for four days and they are either learning how to make a wholecloth or a strippy Quilt.

Here are some of the ladies looking at some of Lilan Quilts - both modern and antique.

On Lilians very first visit to The Royal Bridlington, I joined the cushion cover class as I was not sure I would take to hand quilting.  I marked the whole cushion cover in the day and then set about the quilting whilst other ladies were marking their wholecloths & strippys.
Here is the result

I really enjoyed it, although I did not expect that I would. I found it quite relaxing to do.


On the next visit I decided to tackle a wholecloth and so marked up a king size with Lilians help.  Although I dont get alot of spare time I have still manged to get quite a bit done.

So, not wanting to waste the opportunity of having Lilian here teaching again, I'm marking up another wholecloth - a double this time.

Here is my progress after the first day.

This is the middle of my quilt, designed on to greaseproof paper.

Today, day two, I started to design the corner.

Here are some of the ladies hard at work-


Morag has come all the way from Locharber in Scotland. She is busy designing her strippy quilt.

Here is Jean, she is inking in her pattern

Chris is designing her border

Lilian will be here teaching with us again
 9th /10th /11th & 12th March 2014
&
12th /13th / 14th / 15th October 2014
Anyone who wants to learn about North Country / Durham Quilting or would like to receive futher information email     fiona@royalhotelbrid.co.uk.

Lilian also has four books which are full of traditional North Country design templates.

 These are £12.50 each plus postage

These are £7.50 each plus postage
and they are available from Lilian - http://lilian-hedley-quilter.com/