I devised this technique of manipulated textured patchwork whilst studying for the City and Guilds Part 2 with Barbara Weeks at North Herfordshire College. When I showed it to my Part 1 students at Walthamstow Education Centre, Sue Rowley said that the green ones looked like the squashed frog in her garden - hence the alternative name.

© Textured Triangles - Copyright Janice Gunner, 1996.

African Jewels
An experiment trying different ways of embellishing my basic Textured Triangles technique using bias strips for a stained window effect. Hand dyed cottons and Hoffman batiks. Cotton/polyester wadding. Hand and machine pieced. Appliqué bias, hand embroidered and hand beaded. Machine quilted. 24 inch equilateral triangle. 2000.

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Summer Fuscia Show
Commissioned by Region 1 of the Quilters' Guild for The 90s Collection. Inspired by varied colours of a local fuscia show. Hand dyed cottons, Hoffman batiks, silk, cotton wadding. Hand and machine pieced. Machine quilted. 24 inch equilateral triangle. 1996.

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