Saturday, 24 October 2009

Published!


I have been featured and interviewed in a magazine for the first time! It is the German magazine Patchwork Professional (Issue 3, 2009) and I can only just spell my way through. Four pages, I can't quite believe it.................


The first two pages features my quilt "Rage", which has been exhibited at The Festival of Quilts (FOQ) 2008 ("Judges Choice") and at The Danish Guild Conference 2009. It is very difficult to photograph, as the wholes in it comes out as white "dots" - depending on the background colour. Also shown is my "Thin Blue Line" quilt, done in a challenge by The Contemporary Quilt Group and exhibited at the Dudley Museum, FOQ and Loch Lomond Quilt Show (2008-9).


In the next two pages I demonstrate how I make the holes in the quilt:


Also featured is my quilt "GardenDreams" that was on the cover of Quilting Arts Magazine (issue 23).


My blog friend Jenny Bowker (and now also facebook friend) graces the cover and main feature of PP.

I have been admiring her quilts for years, so it was great to meet her and see her solo exhibition at FOQ.

When departing for the festival, neither of us had
received our complementary copy, but I was lucky; my friend Ineke Berlyn had a copy that I could borrow to glance through and also to show to Jenny.







Because of my winning at FOQ, I also got my "Little Thin Blue Line" quilt featured in The Guild magazine "The Quilter" together with the 2nd and 3rd prize in the "Miniature" category.

And various categories in Patchwork & Quilting Magazine:



19 comments:

patstudio said...

congratulations on being recognized as a quilt artist by the media. wonderful.....and your work is inspirational. truly inspirational

quiltilicious said...

Well done!!

JulesQuilts said...

Congratulations. How exciting for you!
It is no less than you deserve, your work is both beautiful and inspirational.

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thank you all very much for those kind comments.

Julie said...

Congratulations Mai-Britt, you must be thrilled :)

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thanks Julie, I am!

Gina said...

Congratulations!

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thanks Gina, lovely to hear from you.

Brenda said...

Congratulations! A wonderful record of your achievements.

Lisa Walton said...

Thanks so much for showing this . I didn't realise my Bushfire Sunset quilt was also mentioned. Congratulations for your awards.

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thank you both a lot..... ;O)

Lisa, I have e-mailed you the page, hope it won't clutter your in-box.

Every time I passed Bushfire Sunset at FOQ, there was people in front of it!

The Pink Ganeshji said...

This is wonderful! Congratulations. I find your work very intriguing and look forward to seeing more.
Martha

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thanks, Martha - I'm very flattered.

Carol said...

Congratulations. That has got to have been so exciting for you (and Jenny).

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thanks, yes it was...... ;O)

Vivien said...

Excellent! Well deserved! Your work is beautiful! It looks like the photography did your work justice.

magpie said...

Congratulations and well deserved.

Kay said...

Congratulations. I've been reading your blog for a while, and this is well deserved, and maybe overdue.

Mai-Britt Axelsen said...

Thank you so much and thanks for following my blog :D