Amanda Jane Textiles

Four ways to ‘pin’ a layered-up quilt

quilter's pins, curved safety pins for holding the layers of a quilt

So you have a completed quilt top. You have layered it up with wadding (batting) in the middle and backing fabric. (For information on how to layer up your quilt, look here). You now need to secure the three layers together well enough to be able to add quilting to your quilt. There are fourContinueContinue reading “Four ways to ‘pin’ a layered-up quilt”

Textiles collaboration samples

Knitted cuff in five shades of blue and also white, an experimental piece by by Amanda Jane Ogden

This is a follow-up to last week’s post (see it here) about the Chelsea College/WI collaboration. Today I’m sharing some of the outcomes from the project. WI participants in the project were fortunate enough to participate in the same lectures and workshops as the students. During the ‘knitting’ lecture, we were encouraged to do someContinueContinue reading “Textiles collaboration samples”