This is a quilt I finished recently.
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| Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca |
A little
history
In 1984,
my sixteen year old son, Glenn won a one-week trip on a tall ship on
Lake Ontario through the Ontario Lottery Second Chance draw. The
draw was for holders of losing tickets, and the Ontario Lottery
awarded 100 cruises for people aged 14 to 18. Thank you Uncle Don,
who kept putting his nephews names on his losing lottery tickets.
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| from my scrapbook |
At that
time this ship was the oldest wooden square-rigger still afloat. It
was launched in 1858 in Barcelona, Spain and used as a trans-Atlantic
cargo ship.
A few
years ago, Glenn and his wife Sue, were in Halifax and the tall ships
were in port. Glenn was quite excited to revisit the Ciudad de Inca
but could not find her.
After
doing some research they found that she had changed name (yet again,
see below) and had actually been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall in
1995.
From Wikipedia:
Career
(UK)
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Name:
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Maria
Asumpta
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Builder:
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Nicholas
Pida
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Launched:
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Badalona, Spain, 1858 |
Christened:
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Maria
Asumpta
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Renamed:
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Pepita
(1930s)
Ciudad
de Inca (1953)
Maria
Asumpta (1988)
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| wrecked at Padstow, Cornwall, 30 May 1995 |
This quilt was made for him as a memory keepsake and who knows, her ghost may still be sailing the Atlantic.
I took lots of photos as I made this quilt showing my process and progress.
I hand dyed the fabric by letting the dye wick up the fabric that was tied up. The dark area (top of quilt) was the standing in the dye pot.
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| Dyed fabric and stitching for trapunto |
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| Back showing trapunto batting |
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| Insert for reversible sleeve |
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| Quilt info at top of sleeve instead of label |
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| Top of quilt stitched down |
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| Starting second coat of white Tsukineko ink on sails and ship |
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| Auditioning binding |
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| Reverse side |
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Happy Quilting,
Terry
DOCUMENTATION:
Quilt
Name: Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca
Description:
Reversible hand-dyed, painted and quilted
Pattern:
Original design (ship from photograph)
Size:
20” x 26”
Fabrics:
100% cotton
Predominant
colours: Blue, white, black on reverse side
Construction
Techniques: Hand dyed by wicking, trapunto, painting with white
Tsukineko ink and free motion quilted.
Back:
100% black egyptian cotton
Batting:
Warm and Natural cotton
Edge
finish: Double fold french binding
Quilting:
Free motion quilted on Domestic Machine
Quilted
by: Terry Whyte
Sleeve:
reversible sleeve
Label:
On top edge of quilt as part of sleeve
Date
completed: 2013
Inspiration:
for memory keepsake and photo of ship
Maker:
Terry Whyte
10 comments:
It's stunning!
Carol
Amazing Work!
What a very interesting and unique concept. I love the back view too.
I saw the tall ships in Halifax, too. They were amazing!
The ghost ship piece is beautiful. And thank you for sharing your process!
I can not tell you how much I love this quilt! It is amazing! Wicking the dye to give that eerie ghostly foggy feel - brilliant. Bravo and well done.
Simply gorgeous ! Great history, fabulous technique, meticulus work !
Very interesting and wonderful quilting on this piece. Beautiful on both sides!
best from Tunisia,
nadia
I was on the same ship in '84. I can't remember Glenn but what a week. He would remember me and my buddy. We were the only 18 year olds and since it was a British ship we were allowed centain privileges.
They are in Georgian Bay now but nothing like the original fleet we were on!
Soren
I love this textile work. I sailed on this boat in 1987-88, the Inca, from Gananaque Ontario to Glascow Scotland. I helped carve the new name Maria Assumpta- and based on my experiences and forecastle talk, am left with lingering questions about the actual treatment of those mid-eighties sea scouts of Ontario.
Wow. I was on that OLG winning trip as well. This is crazy to find others after all these years. So sad that she went down. Does anyone remember Bobby, one of the crew. With blonde curly hair. Anyway he went down with the ship is what I heard and he was so nice to all of us kids who were on the ship.
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