Shortly before starting my small business Amanda Jane Textiles in Autumn 2014, I began this blog. Thus far, I have written 100 blog posts and included a 30-second video about my creative life. Click here to see it.
There have been about 13,000 hits on this website. Thank you for visiting.
The plan is to write original content each week which I hope you will enjoy, and also to give access to my gradually increasing selection of quilt and sewing patterns and to my stock of fabric designs.
Over the two and a half year period, I have covered a variety of topics, the majority (but not all) textile-related. I also like to feature the beautiful North-East of England, where I live and where I am an AirBnB host. I also to write about other things that have caught my interest. Here are some examples. Just click on the title to read the post:
Textiles:
Three upcycled dresses in three days
Tantalising quilt link at Beamish
How-to:
Textile artists:
Small business:
Developing textile products for sale
Taking photographs of products
Skiing and Snow:
Skiing and silk (what to wear for skiing)
Durham and the North-East:
I also wrote a useful post about how to replace a jacket lining which appeared on the Bernina blog. Click here to see it.
Please do get in touch, I’d love to hear from you – there’s a contact form. If you have a friend who would enjoy this blog, please would you forward it to them? If you would like to read this blog every week, look for the words ‘Follow this blog by email’ and enter your email address. The blog posts will arrive each Monday in your in-box. If you would like to receive my special monthly newsletter, complete with colour inspiration, design inspiration and a free tutorial, please complete the pop-up form or get in touch via the contact form. I will never share your email with anyone.
Photo taken from blog post Fire and Ice (and Meringue).
This is my cut-and-sew ‘Gift Bag -Candle’. You can find it here.
Thank you for reading my blog. Quilt patterns are here, Fabrics are here, Classes are here
Congratulations! That’s quite a milestone. 🙂
Mine stand at 689 just now, although I did do a clean up a few years ago and deleted about 100 irrelevant, fluffy padding type of posts!! They didn’t do analytics when I first started back in 2005, but I’ve had them on for most of the last 10 years. I used to love using the (Google Analytics) map function to see how many countries I still ‘needed’ a visit from!!! Simple things please simple minds…..
Wow, Elizabeth – 689! That’s amazing. Something for me to aim for, then! Thank you for your very kind message.
Amanda
Congratulations!! 😀
Thank you Tami, I am gripped with making tiny hats by the way and I have a crochet dachshund on the go!
Amanda