At the conclusion of our Online 7822 Patchwork and Quilting Course, students who have satisfied all the syllabus requirements are awarded a certificate by the awarding body, City & Guilds of London. We would like to offer our congratulations too!
Penny Kurowski
Penny's final quilt was a sofa throw designed for a young person's student apartment. With a Gothic theme in mind the quilt took the format of a spider's web.

The segments of the web were pieced with some sections of crazy patchwork. Machine quilting completed the throw.
Above left: A detail of one section of the quilt showing the crazy patchwork.
Above: Part of Penny's design work for the quilt. This is her initial storyboard that illustrates the range of references that inspired her quilt's shape and colour scheme.
Above: Penny's first assessment quilt was this applique wall hanging. Densely machine quilted the striking design would suit the minimal setting for which it was intended.

Above right: a section from Penny's designwork showing a collage of how the quilt might look.
Right: A close up of the quilt showing the machine applique and heavy free machine quilting.
Above: Another page from Penny's designwork.
Below: Penny took a photo of a Californian sunset as the colour inspiration for a set of samples. Right: A hand pieced and quilted landscape.
Above: One of Penny's hexagon pieced samples. This example uses irregular hexagons and is hand pieced.
Right: A lovely sample of machine appliqued leaves.
Left: A pieced checkerboard using some of Penny's hand dyed fabrics in pastel shades.
Right: A page from Penny's notebook showing her work with grid distortion for block design.
Left: Applique leaf motifs have been enhanced with machine quilting.
Right: A hand printed fabric is free machine quilted to define the printed shapes.
Below: Stencilled leaf shapes are beautifully arranged in a hexagon format with hand quilting.
Right: A sample of paper piecing with hand quilting.
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© Linda Kemshall 2005