Wise words
Teeny, tiny post today. I was discussing the perennial scrap quilts leave you with more scraps than you started with problem last week and was delighted to hear the following acronym: STABLE = Stash...
View ArticleAlf Rehn’s shirt
Wednesday was the birthday of a Grate Frend (Molesworth) of mine, Alf Rehn. Alf is the epitome of the modern European: divides his time between London, Copenhagen and Finland, speaks most modern...
View ArticleField notes from Utopia
A couple of months ago, I went on a fantastic weekend at Shore Cottage Studio. I have blogged about this before, but, to recap, it is a gorgeous studio on the Dee Estuary which runs short courses on...
View ArticleThinking about the stash
I had a very interesting conversation last week with a group of women women talking about ‘The Stash’. This is a subject which quilters will always talk about with great enthusiasm, and I thought I...
View ArticleFrome Vintage Textiles Market
I spent most of Saturday morning at a vintage textile market in Frome. This was a mistake, as it is always a wallet-hoovering occasion when I meet old fabric in a commercial setting. I spent rather...
View ArticleMoon quilt
This is my most recently finished quilt. It isn’t the greatest photo of it because I thought I could either wait until I could get a great shot or write the post and the latter won. There are a few...
View ArticleA period Laura Ashley bedroom open for visits
The Medieval Historian and I brushed the gathering dust off our National Trust cards and went to Newark Park to see a bedroom specially decorated to feature in the Laura Ashley home catalogue: I was...
View ArticleTextile at at Southmead Hospital Bristol
I went up to Southmead Hospital in Bristol the other week for a bit more prodding and poking, and in the brand spanking new building they have decided to include a small gallery. My eye was initially...
View ArticleHouse and home
This is a quick post today, to some extent to show I am still alive. I am planning a series of events with a visiting quilter from the US, Marybeth Stalp, and one of them involves a workshop in which...
View ArticleAlison Moger at Bristol Quilters
This post is about lovely Alison Moger’s visit to Bristol Quilters last night, but it is also about synchronicity and that feeling that the whole world is coming together to help you in your work,...
View ArticleFalling in love again
There haven’t been many posts recently as I have been finishing things off and there hasn’t been much to report, but suddenly I have quite a lot to post about. This is a big project from my work on...
View ArticleWhat I did at the weekend
On Monday night I gave a talk to the Westbury Park Quilters on Album and Friendship quilts. I have been doing some research on these on and off for several months, and one of the most intriguing...
View ArticleWhat I learned about identity from Jan Hassard
The speaker at Bristol Quilters last week was the lovely and very talented Jan Hassard. She has been a member of Bristol Quilters for years, and so it was nice to see her body of work as it...
View ArticleWhat I did at the weekend
These are really not very good photographs of the work I did on the new Laura Ashley piece. I have had a big burst of interest in this quilt, and I am wondering if it is because the other large piece...
View ArticleWhat I did at the weekend
This isn’t what I did last weekend, but the weekend before, a very blustery weekend in January spent in Porthleven in Cornwall with my very excellent friends, Alison, Ceri and Becky. Alison’s family...
View ArticleNew Year’s Doll 2015
Every year on New Year’s Day I make a doll. I either make something which reflects how I am feeling about the past year or something that I want to work on in the coming one. Here are the links to...
View ArticleHouse and home
This is a quick post today, to some extent to show I am still alive. I am planning a series of events with a visiting quilter from the US, Marybeth Stalp, and one of them involves a workshop in which...
View ArticleAlison Moger at Bristol Quilters
This post is about lovely Alison Moger’s visit to Bristol Quilters last night, but it is also about synchronicity and that feeling that the whole world is coming together to help you in your work,...
View ArticleFalling in love again
There haven’t been many posts recently as I have been finishing things off and there hasn’t been much to report, but suddenly I have quite a lot to post about. This is a big project from my work on...
View ArticleWhat I did at the weekend
On Monday night I gave a talk to the Westbury Park Quilters on Album and Friendship quilts. I have been doing some research on these on and off for several months, and one of the most intriguing...
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