Wool has become a favorite textile for Rita Partridge, a former member of RNQG. In recent years she has employed a multitude of embroidery stitches to enhance wool quilts. Her lecture this evening includes examples of how she uses wool in her quilts and the ways she chooses to embellish them.
Long recognized for her beautiful handwork, Rita’s sewing and crafting passion began at an early age, “assisting” her grandmother with rug hooking by handing her the requested strips of wool. This led to many different endeavors in needle arts: knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, embroidery and sewing.
Her love for quilting bloomed while in college. Over the years, her quilting projects have encompassed a wide variety of techniques: scrappy, pieced, appliquéd and embroidered. Images of some of her works appear below.
