Quilted Pottery

For the last few days, I have been posting about some beautiful pottery that was on exhibit (and for sale) during the Thanksgiving Weekend, at the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation, St. John's.

So, I thought, why not blog about quilted pottery. I've come across that topic before when researching other textile based art work!

Well, I found a bunch of 'stuff', among them a Quilted Mad Tea Party Set and it's free to download. Maybe someone out there will be inspired enough to give it a try. If not, check out these other tea pot related projects:

• Mary Beth Bellah has been making quilted tea pots for several years. Check them out.
• More quilted teapots HERE
• Teapot Ornament
• Tipnut Tea Cosies
• Paper Pieced Teapot Pattern
• Tea Cosy for a Proper English Tea
• Tea & Quilts - Part 1
• Tea & Quilts - Part 2
• Teapot Quilt Applique
• Teapot

Enjoy!

Quilted Mad Tea Party Set

Everything Blueberry

photo by Judy Cooper

This is blueberry season here in Newfoundland and we just finished cleaning and bagging several gallons of them. As a result, I decided to see what I could find that was related to textile art and blueberries. I  searched for blueberry art quilts, blueberry stitching, and just plain blueberry. Then I remembered an art quilt I saw in 2001 at the Houston International Quilt Festival. One of the pieces that intrigued me was a very large quilt displaying a cluster of blueberries. The use of hand dyed fabrics to get the blending of shades for the berries was fantastic. I don't remember the name of the quilt or it's creator. If anyone knows about this quilt, please contact me so that I can give credit to its creator.
I did find a few sites with a blueberry connection. Have a look!

• Heidi Lund has an art piece called Blueberry Chrysalis (scroll down a bit)
• Blueberry Teapot by Jeanette McCall
• Blueberry Pin keep (pincushion) directions included!
• Pie anyone! This one is a pie pincushion. . . (scroll down for the blueberry one)
• Machine Embroidery alphabet (B is for Blueberry)
• More Machine Embroidery (scroll down)
• Needle Felting - Bird & Bloom
• Machine Embroidery - Blueberry Coaster
• Baking Designs for the kitchen - using blueberry fabric for a border on potholder
• Blueberry Tea 
• Blueberry - Food Museum  (interesting stuff)  
• Blueberry Recipes
• More Recipes

photo by Judy Cooper

Just writing about these delicious berries makes me hungry! What will I bake?