I just finished stitching a little cot quilt for a friend and colleague's baby. It's been a few years since I stitched for a baby and the experience had me nostalgic and reflecting. My friend is a historian of eighteenth century relationships, and so I knew straightaway that I wanted this quilt to reference Georgian… Continue reading British Baby Quilts in Space and Time 1700-1990.
Emotional Journeys: The British Quilt in Space and Time. Filming The Swaledale Farm Quilt, c1890-1900. The Quilt Collection of The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. Last summer I collaborated on a lovely film which explores why quilts survive within families. I chose to talk about The Swaledale Farm Quilt, probably made in the 1890s… Continue reading The Swaledale Farm Quilt
Deborah McGuire 