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Festival of Quilts 2019 Report

Amazingly a week has already passed since this photo was taken! I am finally getting round to writing my Festival of Quilts 2019 Report post. Okay guys, sit tight, let’s get going, we have a lot to look at! Yes that’s me above being a steward for the first time at the Spotlight@40 gallery. If

Spotlight at 40 Quilt

Settle down everybody for today I have quite a quilt story to tell… I should have written this post 3 weeks ago. The quilt was finished and photographed and I had started to write the blog post and was waiting for photos to load when I went back to check a little detail and discovered

Pop Art Bloomfield Mini Quilt

The Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles is celebrating it’s 40th birthday this year and they are marking this in many different ways. One of them is the 2019 Specialist Group Challenge. One of the antique quilts from the guild’s collection, the Edwin and Mary Bloomfield Coverlet, has been chosen to be reinterpreted by members.

Spot the difference – Tendrils Mini Quilt 2

Last year I made a mini quilt as my entry to the Pantone Quilt Challenge. It was one of my first forays into the obsession which would become ‘Tendrils’! You can read about this first quilt here. Meanwhile Alice, the editor at Love Patchwork and Quilting, asked me to make a version of the mini