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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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Dragon hide no 1
The theme of my favourite conference, SCOS, this year is The Animal, and my grate frend, Beatriz and I have decided to do some work together. We are going to make a piece each week for twenty-five...
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Well fancy that
If you saw yesterday’s post, you will remember that I am working on a blog improvement course set up by WordPress. Today’s exercise was to look at the title of the blog and the tag line. The title...
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Dragon Hide No 2
As suggested by the title, this is the second blog post on my series on dragons with my grate frend, Beatriz Acevedo. This is another piece which has a lot of stitching on it because I had time over...
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Dragon Hide 3
This is the third dragon hide in my series with my Grate Frend, Beatriz Acevedo. I am aiming for 25, but we’ll see how far I get. This one is made from a bag of beads I got for three pounds in a sale...
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New quilting design
I have been working on a project with the wonderful Paula Hyde at Manchester Business School which has involved making pieces together. This is the second stage of the one Paula started: Hers is the...
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What I did at the weekend
Solomon Quilt This is a small quilt (about 2 feet/ 60 cm square) which I am proud to say I made on Saturday afternoon. I am proud of this because it demonstrates expertise. I wanted to make a quilt as...
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Thinking about the stash
I had a very interesting conversation last week with a group of women women talking about ‘The Stash’. This is a subject which quilters will always talk about with great enthusiasm, and I thought I...
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I recently went on a really great workshop organised by Selvedge magazine. It was called a ‘Craft Spa Day’ and was held in Bloomsbury. Selvedge, by the way is a fantastic magazine. It has the most...
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