Category: Quilts

This quilt is based on a quilt in The Quilters' Guild Collection called The Mary and Edwin Bloomfield Coverlet, named after the makers who embroidered their names in the centre. Image from The Quilters Guild Collection. http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk The original quilt shares this unusual layout of hexagon and diamond shapes and is surrounded by text panels,… Continue reading Bloomfield Coverlet : The Text Of Childhood

In the Quilters' Guild Collection there is a fascinating quilt called The Ladies Work Society Coverlet. This quilt was shown at the QGBI Conference in 2016 and its striking layout and unusual applique shapes stood out to me. I read about its background - a quilt made in the early Edwardian period by a group… Continue reading The Arts & Crafts Quilt

  Back in 2011 or 2012 when I had just started running my Patchwork and Quilting School The PlainStitch Workroom, from a tiny room above an estate agents in the village where I lived, I was contacted by a gentleman whose wife had been an ardent quilter and she had sadly passed away the previous… Continue reading The Dahlia Quilts

This quilt was made in the summer of 2016 in the weeks after we went to see Steven Speilberg's version of Roald Dahl's classic The Big Friendly Giant. In the film, as we sat in the dark cinema, it opened on a little girl, Sophie, asleep in her orphanage bed and draped in a tantalising… Continue reading The BFG Old English Frame Quilt

  This post is picture light because the making of most of this quilt predated my latest phone gallery and stretches back into the pre history that was when you had to do torturous things to take your pictures with you from an old iphone and I can't find what happened to those picture now!… Continue reading The Mid Century Modern Quilt