Saturday 19th July, 2025. Aylesbury Vale Stitchers. Title tbc.
For more details please contact Aylesbury Vale Stitchers.
Monday 14th July, 2025. Chiltern Embroidery and Textile Group. Title tbc.
For more details contact Chiltern Embroidery and Textile Group.
Monday June 2nd 2025. Mimram Quilters. Title tbc.
Mimram Quilters, Civic Centre, Prospect Place, Welwyn AL6 9ER
For more details contact Mimram Quilters
Saturday 21st September 2024. Voices Gloucester Threads Festival. ‘The Quilt Frame: An Emotional History’ – In person with frame demo.
An in person presentation of ‘The Quilt Frame: An Emotional History’ a presentation which uncovers the frame as a tool from the mists of quilt history and asks why it has been forgotten; what it can teach us about how we made quilts in the past, and how we might again today.
For more details of the full programme, and how to book: Visit Voices Gloucester Threads Festival
Saturday 28th September 2024. Oast Quilters, Canterbury, Kent. In person.
An in person presentation of my ‘Remember Me’. A Scant History of British Patchwork and Quilting since 1700: New Quilts from Old Ideas.
Contact: hello@oastquilters.co.uk or visit their website for more details of how to attend.
Saturday 13th July 2024. The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, Region 6 Oxfordshire, Guest Speaker and Lunch,
In person, guest speaker and lunch event. Contact Shirley Collie, events_reg6@quiltersguild.org.uk for more details of how to attend as a visitor or Quilters’ Guild member.
March 2024. The Paul Mellon Centre, Gender + Cloth Series convened by Dr Jess Bailey at The Foundling Hospital.
A haptic exploration with Deb McGuire of the labour of working-class women quilters around 1900, with author and artist Feren Gipson.
Sold Out. Visit the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for more details.
16th January, 2024. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Conference – ‘Belonging’.
‘The “Twilters” of the North Country: Stitch, Identity and Emotional Communities.’
This is an academic event. For more details see Oxford Brookes University website,
January 2024. Arts Council England Mentor Session for Develop Your Creative Practice Fund. January and March 2024.
This is a private event. To learn more about Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice mentorship contact deb@plainstitch.co.uk.
9th January, 2024. Fat Quarters Group, Buckinghamshire, Guest Speaker at AGM. Event begins at 7.30pm, presentation at 8.30pm.
For more information and to attend as a Quilters’ Guild member or visitor to the group contact: fatquartersmissenden@gmail.com
Saturday 4th November 2023. BQSG Conference. Presenting published Quilt Studies Paper, ‘The Pragmatic and Emotional Networks of the Quilt Stampers of Allendale 1870-1920.’
For more details contact, The British Quilt Study Group.
Allen Valley Local History Group. Allendale, Nr Hexham, Northumberland, In person. Tues 24th October 2023.
Presentation ‘The Quilt Stampers of Allenheads. Pragmatic and Emotional Networks in Allenheads around 1900’.
Contact: Dorothy Collier dotcollier02@gmail.com for details or see https://www.allenvalleyslocalhistory.org.uk/home/contact-us/
London Quilters. Swiss Cottage, London, Monday 18th September 2023.
An in person presentation of my ‘Remember Me’. A Scant History of British Patchwork and Quilting since 1700: New Quilts from Old Ideas.
Contact: Sarah Hibbert for details and to book a ticket. sarahhibbert@btopenworld.com or visit their website.
Buttercross Quilters, Witney, Oxfordshire. Tuesday 12th September, 2023.
An in person presentation of my ‘Remember Me’. A Scant History of British Patchwork and Quilting since 1700: New Quilts from Old Ideas.
Contact: helenclaire59@gmail.com for more details.
Mead Quilters. Whethampstead, Hertfordshire. Tuesday 18th July 2023.
An in person presentation of my ‘Remember Me’. A Scant History of British Patchwork and Quilting since 1700: New Quilts from Old Ideas.
Fat Quarters Group, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, Tuesday 11th July 2023.
An in person presentation of my ‘Remember Me’. A Scant History of British Patchwork and Quilting since 1700: New Quilts from Old Ideas.
Quilt Time: Quilts Emotions and Inheritance in Swaledale. Tennants Auctioneers Garden Room, Leyburn, North Yorks. Thursday 25th May, 2pm.
Inheriting the Family Film Screening and Panel Discussion. Birkbeck Cinema, University of London, Friday 21st April, 2023.
Why Material Literacy Matters: The Quilt as an Emotional Object. The Prince’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts, Shoreditch, London. October 2022.
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