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World Textile Day, Llanidloes - photos
Bob sent me a couple of photos he took at World Textile Day in Llanidloes last Saturday - Glyn larking about behind the sales table and some of the Yuza Sashiko and Reiko Domon's quilts, which fitted...
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Weather and Spring bookings
The wintry weather, the snow and high winds we've been having in the UK since Monday, has wreaked havoc with my talks schedule this week. I've had to cancel two bookings - at the Glasgow Gathering of...
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V & A brown and red medallion quilt
After a break of nearly two years on this project, when the patchwork and fabrics were usually several hundred miles apart, it's about time I got the patchwork finished. The centre of my quilt is on...
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Repro quilts - medallion quilt centre panel
One of the difficulties in making your own version of many early nineteenth century quilts is finding something appropriate to use for the central medallion. Quilters back then often used specially...
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Red and brown repro quilt - corners
It's time for some fabric decisions for the red and brown quilt before I can go any further with adding the borders. I thought I had the perfect fabric for the cornerstones on the first nine patch...
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Workshops last week in East Sussex
For some reason, I couldn't get Blogger to load up these photos earlier in the week, so there's been a bit of a delay in posting about the three workshops I had in East Sussex from the end of April to...
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Mayday in East Sussex and Kent etc.
I wasn't working on Mayday, so we were up before dawn to watch Shalesbrook Morris (above) and Ashdown Forest Morris Men dancing in Ashdown Forest.Yes, you probably can see members of the audience...
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Glyn's latest quilt - work in progress for Loch Lomond Quilt Show
Glyn has been working on this year's entry for the Loch Lomond Quilt Show. Here are some work in progress photos. This year's Men Only theme is 'Manmade'. You'll have to wait until after the show to...
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Japanese Circles and Squares with Tweeddale Quilters
Here's some of the fabulous colour schemes created by Tweeddale Quilters at our workshop near Peebles last Wednesday. I think we had the highest ever proportion of the random version of Japanese...
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Quilts UK, Malvern - coming up this week
I'll be at Quilts UK again this week, from Thursday to Sunday. I have some 'new' Japanese fabrics for sale, and some kimono that haven't had an outing before. We will be in our usual spot in the...
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Antique quilt inspirations and two forthcoming exhibitions
Antique quilts have such wonderful designs and two forthcoming exhibitions will no doubt provide more inspitations. At York, the Quilt Museum opens their new exhibition, 'The Blossoming of Patchwork',...
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Quilts UK at Malvern etc.
Quilts UK was in the middle of this month and, as usual, it was a lovely show. Although the weather forecast was for rain every day, we were pretty lucky and it even got rather warm down in the...
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Potholders aplenty!
I'm busy making potholders for a new book at the moment. It will be one of the '20 to Make' series by Search Press, a small format booklet series that retails for just £4.99 each. There's forty...
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QR code
Hopefully this should work... let me know if it doesn't!EDIT - I should have explained that it's the link to my website. Thanks to everyone who tested it out with their smartphones.
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Sandown Park and World Textile Day Scotland
This year, I won't be at the National Quilt Championships at Sandown Park because it clashes with World Textile Day Scotland. We held the first WTD Scotland last year and it went down so well, this...
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A visit to St Fagans: National History Museum of Wales - part 1
Last Sunday, we joined Dyffryn Clwyd Quilters from Ruthin on the second day of their south Wales trip when we went to the National History Museum at St Fagans. Although I lived in north and...
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Visit to St Fagans - part 2
As well as the beautiful wholecloths Elen showed us during our behind the scenes tour, there were several patchworks. I thought I recognised this 1870s ribbon patchwork from a book - it's on page 74...
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The Sidmouth Quilt revisited
The Sidmouth quilt is one of those featured in the current exhibition at the Quilt Museum, York - 'The Blossoming of Patchwork', on until August 31st. I think the first time I saw a photo of it was...
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Old Swedish quilts - inspirations
I've just read a post by Swedish quilter Åsa Wettre on Facebook and it looks like she is publishing another book about old Swedish quilts,"Spår av liv-andra boken om gamla svenska lapptäcken". It will...
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Glyn's quilts at Sandown Park
Glyn did well with his quilts at the National Quilt Championships at Sandown Park last weekend - we weren't there as we were doing World Textile Day at Bridge of Allan, Stirling on Saturday (photos...
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