Tea or Coffee, Jane

A colleague I worked with was interested in my use of recycled materials. At Christmas she gave me some little stencils with NZ themes. I decided to use these to create a quilt in standard blocks using teabags as the substrate. The used teabags were laminated onto a cotton base and then the stencils were applied using black ink. Each block was free machine quilted with a figure of eight pattern. Some additional stitching was added to enhance the images. For example around the wings of the birds and between the fronds of the foliage. The pieces were squared up.

For the sashing I used the inner foil coffee bags joined in strips with textured yarn and an overlay of black organza. This was also free machine stitched in a figure of eight pattern. The blocks and sashings were joined in the traditional way and the quilt was finished using a facing technique.

Jane had given me the stencils and the quilt included coffee packets and tea bags so i called the quilt “Tea or Coffe Jane”.