Hull City of Culture 2017 - help needed

[Lois B.]

Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire has recently been awarded the prize/challange of being the City of Culture for 2017. (For those that know Hull please don't snigger too much - I'm doing it for you, cos personally I sometimes think there is more culture in a petri dish).

One of my best friends* from the Embroiderer's Guild has come up with the idea of getting lots of groups of people from across the city to put together pictorial wall quilts of aspects of the city, to be hung around the city so that people can wander around and view them. This will be similiar to what happened a few years ago with the Larkin toads (see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-12823841 and here http://www.larkin25.co.uk/larkin-with-toads.phpfor further information about the toads).

The problem we have is that the average layperson on the street has no idea about pictorial quilts. Over here, if you are lucky, they imagine patchwork bed quilts. Therefore we need some pictures of pictorial wall quilts to show to people what we are talking about.

However - I have only ever made 1 pictorial(ish) wall quilt and it is currently hiding under wraps in Scotland until May. Therefore does anyone who has made a pictorial wall quilt mind sharing a photograph of it, with permission, that we might print it up for examples of what we are on about.

* and since I know appear to know most about quilts I have been nominated (in my absence) as technical wallah - with friends like this who needs enemies! :roll:

[Margo C.]

Rosemary, just Google "Pictorial Wall Quilts" and you will have lots of images to show your "friends" for inspiration!

https://www.google.com/search?q=pict...14&dpr=0.9

[Rita C.]

I think it's a great thing when a city that one doesn't normally associate with 'culture' is given the opportunity to show the world what they have or can achieve in the year of culture. Let's hope some really competent people are put in charge and not the young trendies :roll: I have done a few pictorial quilts but I am not sure they would be up to the standard you are looking for. I guess the problem with just googling images is getting permission.

[Susan B.]

Oh, Rosemary, congratulations on your new leadership position!

How about checking out the Quilt Gallery here at TQS. Emails of the makers will be easy to find.

[Susan B.]

Sue - great suggestion, as you say, easy to find the maker for permission. My friend, Janet, was most specific about getting permission to use the images, rather than just swiping them willy-nilly from anywhere.

Rita - I am not after award winning level (don't want to scare them off) but what could 'Joe off the street' could perhaps aspire to, with some help and guidence. Or a classroom of kids (any age), so anything you have would probably be of use.

[Robin G.]

Rosemary, I don't think I have anything yet that could help, but if you check my blogs of April and October of last year and see anything useful, let me know (I haven't updated my profile recently :cry: so they're not all there yet). I am working on a house quilt, but I don't think it's complete enough to show well, and I am working on two landscape-ish quilts, but again, they're not complete. Let me know if you want me to email photos of the latter two. Congratulations (or sympathy?) on your new position. Robin

[Robin G.]

I find it interesting that "quilts" have reached the realm of "culture", woohoo! Good luck Rosemary.

[Hannelore N.]

Woohoooo...... Hull is within reach of where I live, but I have never been to Hull. I usually drive around it.

Sorry, Rosemary, I'm not really into pictorial quilts. If I want a realistic image, I take a camera and take a picture1

Anything I can do, Rosemary?? Contact me direct. I am not able to see the end of the tunnel right now. What I have to put up with at work may push me into retirement before I really want to go.

[Hannelore N.]

I'm trying to work out where you might be going to by driving around Hull? I suppose Whitby or Bridlington on the coast, but surely if you are after going to the coast from your place you would head to sunny Skeggy (Skegness) 8)

I am not sure that they will all be pictorial quilts - imagine taking a group of your school kids and getting them to create a wall quilt about their school - we will probably end up with (lots of) something like that. (and hopefully some a bit better :wink: )

[Hannelore N.]

Well deducted, Sherlock! A friend of mine used to live just outside of Bridlington.

When my father, a retired engineer, was still alive, he asked me for 'his treat' during every visit. I drove him up to Humber Bridge, and stop the car. He then got out, and walked across the bridge and back whilst I sat in the car and read a book. Last time he did it was when he was 82. He was never interested into go to Hull on the other side of that bridge.

[E.M. T.]

What a beautiful photo ! That's a quilt waiting to be made, Lorchen !!

[E.M. T.]

A darn sight better than what I threw together - literally in about 3 - 4 hours (not including the hanging sleeve) and working from memory. Oh & Izzy helped with drawing some of the critters

[E.M. T.]

Well ! This is darned clever and "art-y" too !!

[Norma H.]

Like it. You are so talented (including Izzy )

[Rita C.]

Great quilt Rosemary - and very recognizable too.