'Homage to Venice' - Free Quilt Pattern

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'Homage to Venice' - Free Quilt Pattern

…..and as the boat approaches through the last church-crowned islands …….so the whole scene seems to shimmer - with pinkness, with age, with self satisfaction, with sadness, with delight. The navigator stows away his charts and puts on a straw hat: for he has reached that paragon among landfalls, Venice.”

These sentences, paraphrased from the opening pages of the most wonderful book ‘Venice’ by Jan Morris (first published in 1963) for me, perfectly sum up why I love Venice so much and why I wanted to capture a little bit of it’s magic in a sewing project.

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Making a quilted voile Ogden Cami

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Making a quilted voile Ogden Cami

A little bit of 18th century Provence

A spinkle of Alabama Chanin style

An echo of Sashiko

A twist of Danish flare……..

That sounds a bit of a concoction doesn’t it?! Hi there, glad you’ve landed here today as I have an interesting dressmaking project to tell you about, which was in short, an experimental idea using a trusted pattern. The inspiration, as you can see, came from all sorts of different sources and spun around in my mind over a few months until it fused together to become this idea. I had no idea if it would work and maybe the jury is still out on that one, but it is so fun to experiment with stitch and texture and well, anyhow, I will let you be the judge of it.

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