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When she's stitching one of her quilts, Susan Denton doesn't have too rigid a plan. She likes to see where her imagination takes her.
"If I feel like putting a bit of turquoise in, I'll put it in," she says. Her quilts are, she says, very much an interpretation of what she sees around her, works of art created from scraps of fabric and many hours of stitching. Living just a stone's throw from Cape Cornwall where West Cornwall meets the sea, she uses her needle to pick out the lines of granite cliffs and standing stones, and the swirl of ocean currents. She's also inspired by the lines and shapes she finds in vegetable plots.See the full content of this document
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Magic Quilts
"I love allotments and all the paraphernalia that goes with it," she says. "I'm just finishing a small piece about watering cans."
Her own garden at St Just is, she says, "a bit overgrown at the moment". But she regularly spends time o...See the full content of this document
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