We have recently started designing antique quilts. Grandmother’s Remembrance is the very first design of our studio.
The antique piece was made by Mrs.Hikmet Akyurek about a century ago. Her grand daughter Pelin asked me to design a contemporary quilt for her daughter.
Shadow appliqué and paper piecing was used. Pieced by hand, quilted by hand.
95cmX95cm, Feb.2008
Dream Village is my last punch project.I was inspired by the village near Selcuk,Ephesus in Sept.where I was invited for an exhibition.I have started Dream Village at that exhibition as demonstration.
34cmX27cm,Dec.2007
We were invited by the Selcuk Municipality on 4-8 September 2007 to display some of our award winning quilts at the Selcuk-Efes Festival. It was for sure the most widely attended exhibition I have ever had.
Following members of GC Patchwork Studio participated in the exhibition:
My punch book was published in September 2007 and was first sold at the 39th International Handcraft Festival of Selcuk.
An interview about me and my studio was published in TED Kolejliler Magazine July issue. This magazine belongs to graduates of Ankara’s first private college, from which my husband and two sons have also graduated.
With my last quilt “ As Far As You Go “ ,I imagined to sail to the shores that the Sun and the Sea meets each other,where there is no restrictions, limits or rules yet just the moments to live. In my opinion my last quilt explained how I felt right at the moment,at the age close to fifty.
Watercolor technique is used,hand appliqued,hand quilted.
“As Far As You Go” displayed first at Selcuk,Efesus International Art Festival, Sept. 2007
May 2008 European Quilt Championship
143cmX126cm,Sept.2007
One of our advanced student Leyla Bizeroglu had her first exhibion at our studio.
Leyla Bizeroglu at the opening ceremony of her exhibition ” PURE ” with her class mates.
The reporters of “American Women’s Clup of Dusseldorf Magazine” Paulette Fagen and her friend Sonja Jansen have visited us in April 2007 at our studio.
Alime Cicerali (second on the left) with her magazine presented by our visitors on which her quilt ” Life Under It’s Shadow” was published on the cover.
One of friday art class members İlknur Küçük had her first personal exhibition at our new studio.
Four of our quilts were invited to be displayed at the exhibition “Infinity” in Chateau Sainte Rosaline-France
“Always” by Gunsu Gungor ( Herzaman Heriklimde )
“Sometime Somewhere” by Gunsu Gungor ( Birgun Biryerde )
“Birds of Paradise” by Ulker Gedikoglu ( Cennet Kuslari )
“Memories” by Hayal Aytekin ( Anilar )
“Always” and “Memories” were published in the catalogue.
