My entry for the Music of Life exhibition at The Horton, Epsom Surrey was selected as one of three winners in the August 2025 exhibition. The prize was a solo show in 2026. See next post for details about the exhibition that followed.
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Royal Academy Success
Delighted that my quilt “Good Vibrations” was accepted into the Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, June 2023 and was sold at the private view, in advance of the opening day.
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Crow Barn experience – May 2022
#Cottonandbourbon (Audrey Esarey) description of the Crow barn workshop experience perfectly matches my own. She says in a recent post on instagram (June 2022): “People would often tell this place was magical, and it was difficult to know why until I saw it for myself. Located on 100 acres in Baltimore Ohio, there is no…
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Strip piecing
Strip piecing is a technique that I have used quite a bit, from Jan Hassard’s Dazzling diamonds, Ricky Timms’ convergence style quilts to the Victoria Findlay Wolfe “Star Storm”pattern, Irene Roderick “Voltron” improv class, Peter Bryne’s “Cityscape” Carly Bryer Fallert’s “Illusion quilt” and the classic “Lone Star”.
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Improv circles and curves
In this workshop I learned about making improv circles and curves. I also learned about the braided block technique.
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Vignettes quilt – “Travelogue”
In late summer 2021 Heidi Parkes ran a Vignettes quilt-along on Instagram which I decided to take part in.
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