A little more than a year ago, I signed up for DesignMatters Creative Quiltmaking course. About a week ago I finnished, and now I have City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in Creative Techniques - Textiles. My last quilt was an appliqué I called "Leidangen". It is inspired by our Viking boats Oseberg and Gokstad.
The shape is from Oseberg, but the colours I got from the Gokstad ship, which is supposed to have been black, with black and yellow shields. I needle turned and hand quilted the main boat, the rest is either bonded appliqué or stencilled on, and machine quilted.
On the top I quilted some Runes,
and on the bottom I quilted a "Leidang" which means "fleet of conscripted warships". These are from a carving found when they excavated the Medieval Bryggen here in Bergen, after the great fire in 1955.
Well, it has been a very busy year, and just now, I feel a bit empty. Christmas is approaching and now I will concentrate on that. And after Christmas, I have a deadline for the Norsk Quilteforbund's annual competition, on February 1st.
