The British Library is going archive the following website:
http://www.quilts4london.org.uk/
for the Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012 CollectionThe British Library is selecting some key sites or web pages of research interest to form the basis of the Olympic & Paralympic Games 2012 Collection. They believe that it is their responsibility to archive relevant materials for this important collection urgently before they disappear. It is their intended aim to download selected websites over the coming year to cover the development of this historic event, and subsequently make them available to the public via their website at http://www.webarchive.org.uk/.
Quilts4london
Follow the final year of this unique London 2012 Inspire Project. From collecting the pennants to the delivery of them to the 2012 athletes.
05/24/2012
Quilts4london now part of British Library Web Archive
Quilting project organisers present gifts to British Olympian | Voluntary Arts
Team GB sailor Annie Lush was at the recent Stitch & Craft Exhibition at Olympia to meet organisers of two amateur craft projects that have received the London 2012 Inspire Mark.
Irene Heathcote and Angela Sullivan of ‘Quilts 4 London’, a project that has created 17,000 pennants as gifts for athletes competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, presented three pennants to Annie, one each for herself and her two sailing team mates. Jenny Rundle and Sharon Garrick of ‘A Gift of Quilts’, a project that has made a quilt for each team competing in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, presented a quilt.
05/17/2012
Luton, Stockwood Park- Quilts4london exhibition
What's On > Quilts4London
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Start date: Tuesday 1st May, 2012 Finish date: Thursday 31st May, 2012 Cost: Free# Drop in# Concessions: Read our concession terms. The Quilts4London Project started in June 2009 with an idea to produce something as a gift for all the athletes taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London this year. The idea of pennants, traditionally exchanged at friendly sporting events, seemed perfect and the concept was born.
Although initially created by a group of Quilters it has now blossomed into a national and international project of creative, imaginative and beautiful textile pennants all of which will go towards the target of 14,000 pennants needed to give one to each ompeting athlete.
500 of the pennants will be displayed in the link at Stockwood Discovery Centre during May to celebrate the London 2012 games.
05/12/2012
American Museum, Bath - Quilts4london Exhibition in June/July 2012
Welcome to the American Museum Pennant Exhibition in June and July 2012
Family Event: Quilts For London exhibition
12noon-5pm
A display of pennants designed for athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics created by hundreds of people throughout Britain.
05/09/2012
Olympic Park, London - View Tube family fun day; Saturday12 May 2012
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View Tube family fun day Olympic Park, London - View Tube family fun day; Saturday12 May 2012 9am-5pm |
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To celebrate the success of the View Tube over the last few years and to mark our summer closedown the View Tube will be holding a family fun day on Saturday 12th May. There will be food and music and lots of fun activities for young and old at the View Tube and along the adjacent section of the Greenway. Please come along and join us and pass the news on to any of your friends and neighbours who might enjoy it too.
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04/29/2012
Quilts4london at Olympia - see our fantastic exhibition on film.
Michele Young interview with Quilts4london at Olympia, London in March 2012 - see our fantastic exhibition on film.
Our interview is in the second half of the Quilting for the Olympics 2.
04/16/2012
“Royle” Visitor welcomed at Macclesfield Silk
“Quilts 4 London,” is a textile project celebrating the 2012
Olympics. The aim is to design and make a pennant to give to every athlete who
takes part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Macclesfield Silk Industry
Museum, Park Lane, is fortunate to be able to currently exhibit a wonderful
display of these pennants, celebrating the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics,
in the temporary Exhibition Galley at Park Lane.
People of all ages and abilities throughout the U.K. have
expressed their support for the Olympics through the medium of fabric, fibre
and stitching, using a variety of textile media. At least one of the delightful
pennants on display has been designed and made by Veda Royle, a talented local
textile enthusiast who has celebrated Macclesfield’s history by incorporating
Macclesfield silk and buttons in her beautiful creation. Curator, Annabel
Wills, was thrilled to welcome this “Royle” Visitor, to the museum in this
Diamond Jubilee year to see her pennant displayed in the exhibition. “Our
“Royle” visitor was most impressed by the creativity, skill and variety of
techniques demonstrated by those who have contributed pennants to the project.
We hope to welcome many more visitors to the exhibition over the following
three weeks.”
If you would like to see this wonderful exhibition you will need
to put on your running shoes and jog along to the exhibition which remains at
the museum until the end of April before completing its marathon around the U.K.
The “Quilts for London” Exhibition April 2nd-April 30th,
Monday- Saturday 10am-4.pm. Macclesfield Silk Industry Museum, Park Lane.
5/4/12 From Carol Sadelaar (Macclesfield Museum, Education Team)
04/15/2012
Thank you to Forres Sandle Manor Prep School Hampshire
In the sewing activity this term, some of the girls decided that they would like to make a contribution to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The aim of Quilts 4 London is to produce 14,000 banners in order to present each participant in the Olympics and the Paralympics with and handmade banner so that a piece of the UK would go to countries around the world.
We used a variety of sewing methods; cross stitch, back stitch, gold and silver thread work and patchwork.Once our banners were finished, we realised the magnitude of the original idea and the girls were very pleased and proud to think that their banners would be presented to someone who will keep them as a memento of the 2012 olympics! We can now say that we have contributed and that our offerings wil travel far and wide across the world! See some of our creations here...there are two galleries.
Quilts 4 London - Exhibition in Macclesfield, Macclesfield - Textile Festival
2nd April - 30th April : "Quilts 4 london" is a textile project for the Cultural Olympics, awarded the "Inspire" mark under the umbrella of the Quilter's Guild. The aim is to give a pennant to every athlete who takes part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. They are 12" x 16" and can be knitted, stitched, felted etc. and made by people of all ages - 5 to 85.
A selection of these will be exhibited at the Park Lane in the Temporary Exhibition Gallery.
Contact Details
Macclesfield Silk Museum
Park Lane Galleries
Park
Lane
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 6TJTel: 01625 612045 / 613210
04/12/2012
View Tube Art
Olympic Pennants
12 - 26 April 2012
The Quilts4London Project started in June 2009 with an idea to produce something as a gift for all the athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They invite anyone from across the country, of any age or ability to create a textile pennant as a gift for a London 2012 athlete. The target is 14,000 pennants, a selection of those already made is on display at View Tube in the container space.
See their website for more details www.quilts4london.org.uk and find out you can get involved.
Quilts4london
Quilts4London invites anyone, any age or ability to create a textile pennant as a gift for a London 2012 athlete.Target is 14,000 pennants.
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