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Alison 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,...
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House 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...
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Textile 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...
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A 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...
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Moon 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...
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Frome 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...
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Thinking 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...
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Field 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...
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Alf 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...
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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...
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