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Visiting the Festival of Quilts last week has really galvanised the quilting mojo that, let’s be honest, had kind of gone into hibernation mode.  I know I moaned about the set up of the festival, but the quilts were great, and I left very inspired, full of renewed enthusiasm and with a big pile of…

The American edition. The following quilts all came from across the pond so to speak.  I believe they were the best in show, well a selection of… there were a few more but they were displayed in the darkest booth and some of my photos were awful so apologies for the omission. Also – moaning…

The Birmingham International Festival of Quilts is a real summer treat.  I’ve been going for years… including one year I was so pregnant everybody was given me worried looks and followed my with a mop and bucket just in case, (In actual fact I wasn’t that close to the due date… I was just humongous).…

It’s early morning, husband and first child have gone to work, the dishwasher is whirring in the dark corner of the kitchen, the dog is asleep on the sofa.  It’s raining hard and I have four guests asleep downstairs and two boys asleep upstairs. I have coffee. I like these quiet grey mornings. After the…

… It’s been so long since I visited that it’s almost embarrassing writing about it, but here we go. First of all a confession:  it wasn’t my favourite show. All the quilts exposed had been skilfully done but not many grabbed my attention and made me run back home to the sewing machine with a…

Last night was football night… and football night is also known as sewing nights around here.   Husband on sofa watching aforementioned football and me in my room downstairs sewing. Everybody’s happy. I had all intention of practicing my ‘walking foot mad skillz’ but when looking for a large scrap of fabric to work with…

Allow me a little moan. A couple of Saturdays ago I managed to get into this ‘talk/small tour’ behind the scene at the Wilson Museum here in Cheltenham.  The subject?  vintage quilts from their archives. How fab! (side note I got in on a ‘senior’ tickets that somebody returned…. nobody queried it… slightly depressing) Anyway,…

I was going to begin by saying that I’m not a huge fan of the colour red… but in hindsight it might not be strictly true. True I don’t own red clothes – Chris de Burgh did not write that song about me – but every year I’m tempted by a pair of red Converse, and…