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Little Laura 4
This one is the first of this series that I did. It has a very geometric stacked-up pattern feel, but the bronze on bronze pattern made with metallic machine sewing thread, here used for hand...
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What I did at the weekend
I love Bank Holidays because I don’t feel so guilty about spending a chunk of time in my workroom. I started off today making a quilt for a new baby, but it went horribly wrong when I rather...
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What I did on Saturday – Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition
This weekend we held Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition. It comes round once every two years which is a really good spacing because it gives us time to produce some very nice pieces. I can’t single out...
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Quilted beauty
Just a quick post today. This lovely quilt is my mother’s friendship quilt made by her friends for a significant birthday. She lent it to me for my talk to the Bristol Quilters on Wednesday. The...
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What I did at the weekend
If you read my previous post you will know that I have had a very busy time recently. So this weekend, although I have a head buzzing with Laura Ashley ideas which need making, I found myself making...
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What 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...
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What 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...
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Quilt chic
For my birthday I asked for a copy of the The Decemberists’ new album. I am not a big fan, but I really wanted the CD for the cover, which looked to me like one of the wonderful nineteenth-century...
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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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Fabric pictures of houses
Quick post today. Yesterday was the first event on the schedule that I have drawn up with my visiting US quilt scholar academic, Marybeth Stalp. As part of the workshop, I made up some packs for...
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Quilting Cradle to Grave – Academic quilting at Bristol University
On Wednesday afternoon we had the third of our four events with Marybeth Stalp, our visiting Benjamin Meaker fellow, from the US. The theme was Cradle to Grave looking at quilting as what Marybeth...
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Still more applique
This piece is backed onto some curtain interlining and then washed in hot water to give it a vintage feel. This particular interlining seems to turn into tungsten steel when you give it this...
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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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Brunel Broderers’ Exhibition at Newark Park
On my recent visit to Newark Park I was lucky enough to see the Brunel Broderer’s exhibition, which was of work made in response to the house and gardens. I really hate singling people out in...
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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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Red Rabbits
I am starting in the middle a bit with things here. This is the second quilt in a series, and I have yet to blog about the first, but I am aware that it has been a while since I posted anything and...
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A good read
I haven’t done much in the way of recommending quilting books, but this is one worth looking at, not because I particularly want to make three fabric quilts, but because it has a really good...
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Imagine my surprise when…
I bought a copy of Mollie Makes last week to pass the time when I was on a train and was interested to see the following article: That looks interesting, I thought, just my sort of thing. As I read...
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Squaring up quilts
Badly hanging quilt This is another quick post. You may remember that I was horrified by just how badly this quilt hung at the Bristol Quilters’s recent exhibition. Well, in the comments I received...
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A joyful piece from leftovers
If you have read previous posts on this blog, you will know that I hate throwing things away. I also like to make other projects with the leftovers of previous pieces. This little wallhanging is a...
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