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Sidmouth Revisited - ready for Today's Quilter
The quilt is waiting to be collected by the courier now... I will add some more quilting when it comes back to me - like square diamonds (cross hatching) between the feather wreath and the circle...
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Great Northern Quilt Show again!
The Great Northern Quilt Show at Harrogate opens on Friday for three days. We will be in the brand new hall at the showground, so it will be interesting to see what it is like! Like last year, I had a...
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All set up for the Great Northern Quilt Show
We have got everything set up for the Great Northern Quilt Show, which opens tomorrow at Harrogate, in the new hall - a lovely, spacious venue.During the autumn quilt shows, Grosvenor are touring a...
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End of the first day at Harrogate
At the end of a busy day! We had a great day today, meeting so many quilting friends. My workshop was full too. I'll get some photos of the quilts tomorrow.
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More photos from the Great Northern Quilt Show
Here is a selection of quilts from the show a couple of weeks ago, starting with best in show. Enjoy! Left click on the photos to see them in more detail.I chose this wonderful small Welsh style...
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World Textile Day East
We had a great day at World Textile Day at Mundford near Thetford, Norfolk, last Saturday. So we will be coming back next year!Here's a few photos of us being rather busy. Most of the fabrics on the...
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Shinto clothing
This link to information about Shinto vestments was posted on the Immortal Geisha Facebook page today - click here. It explains why Shinto vestments have evolved along different lines from most...
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Scottish Quilt Championships next weekend
I am getting ready for the Scottish Quilt Championships this week, which start on Friday and run until Sunday. There's so much to do, including putting a hanging sleeve on my hearts quilt below. I'm...
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Quilts from the Scottish Quilt Championships - part 1
Here are a few of the winners from the Scottish Quilt Championships at Edinburgh last weekend. Sheena Norquay won overall, with this amazing wallhanging, all machine quilted of course. Reiko Domon's...
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Quilts from the Scottish Quilt Championships - part 2
This sampler quilt must have caused more than a few visitors to do a double take, as a very similar quilt won the Great Northern Quilt Show only a few weeks before. This is the one from Harrogate - It...
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Scottish Quilt Championships - part 3
Here are two quilts that weren't in the competition. The first was made from my 'Japanese Taupe Quilt Blocks' book and is quilt as you go. Amazing! A lot of the blocks look so like the ones I made,...
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Yuza Sashiko current exhibition at the Sanno Club, Sakata
My friend Reiko Domon has posted these wonderful photos of Yuza Sashiko Guild's current exhibition at the Sanno Club in Sakata on her Facebook page and I am sure she will not mind me showing you them...
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The Spring Quilt Festival will be coming to Harrogate!
I have just had some exciting news from Grosvenor Shows. The Spring Quilt Festival will be coming to Harrogate next year, from 24th to 26th February, in the same venue as the Great Northern Quilt...
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Sashiko courses in Perth and Stockton-on-Tees
The next sashiko course at Edinburgh patchwork will be starting on 8th October and it has been fully booked for a while now. I will be running another course in Scotland starting quite soon - at The...
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The Kimono Closet blog
Sheila Cliffe, kimono stylist extraordinaire, has started a new blog, The Kimono Closet. Highly recommended!Her new book, 'The Social Life of Kimono', will be published on 23rd March 2017.
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Edinburgh - first sashiko class
Our new sashiko course at Edinburgh Patchwork got off to a great start on Saturday. As well as the more usual versions of jujizashi ('10' cross stitch) and komezashi (rice stitch) that were made,...
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Lots of things in today's post including...
Sidmouth Revisited. The quilt came back by courier today and my subscription copy of the magazine arrived as well, so it will be in the shops in a few days. The quilt looks lovely in the styled photo...
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Darelle's Dryslwyn Dreams
Darelle Castelow sent me a photo of her version of Dryslwyn Dreams, which was my version of a quilt that used to be in Jen Jones's collection. Re the fabrics, she says -I've done this much and have...
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A Chinese Textile Adventure talk
Tonight I'm giving my new talk for the first time, 'A Chinese Textile Adventure', which is (mainly!) about my trip to China in 2015. I'm using a new projector which a much higher resolution than the...
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Introduction to Shonai Sashiko in Perth
I'm teaching Introduction to Shonai Sashiko at The Peacock and the Tortoise in Perth on Friday - course booking details are here (although they seem to have got the wrong photo on the website!)
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