Each month, I send out the Amanda Jane Textiles newsletter. As I mentioned in the January post here there is always a unique photograph to inspire your use of colour in your own creative work. In the February blog post here I explained how you’ll also find in each newsletter a photograph that is intended to prompt you with design ideas for your own quilt blocks or quilting patterns, or embroidery. All the photographs are taken by me, specifically for the Newsletter.
There is also a section in the Newsletter entitled ‘In and Out of the Studio’ which is a behind-the-scenes look at what I have been doing over the preceding few weeks either with design and making (which I do in the studio just next to my house) and also at any textiles-related activities I have done away from home. For example, in the February newsletter I mentioned seeing one of Cas Holmes pieces in an exhibition at The Beaney in Canterbury and going to hear the artist talk about her work.
In this month’s newsletter, I included the story of the making and the recent repair of the quilt below.
You never know what you might find in the newsletter! You can sign up for the newsletter right here (and easily unsubscribe if it’s not what you are expecting).
‘Clouds and Smoke’ is an excellent quilt pattern for absolute beginners. It can be made up into either a square or a rectangular quilt that can be a baby quilt, play-mat, lap-quilt or throw. Instructions are included for machine- and hand-quilting ideas. Get the pattern here
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