Wimbledon Art Trail is on the 12th and 13th September and I will have my house/studio open to visitors. You can come just to have a look but there will be quilts, cards and prints for sale. Below are some examples of recent work made from a variety of patterned fabrics, very different from the…
Read moreRoyal 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.
Read moreCrow 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…
Read moreStrip 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”.
Read moreImprov circles and curves
In this workshop I learned about making improv circles and curves. I also learned about the braided block technique.
Read moreVignettes 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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