isn't every day that quilting gets onto the front page, but recently in the Durham Advertiser (our local free newspaper) there was a headline 'Quilters raise tidy sum for cause'. It appeared beneath a photograph of Gillian Banks taken by her son om Banks. The piece reported on the recent Durham Quilters' three-day quilt show.Continue reading "Quilting in the news"
Dressmaking: summer tops
When I first started out with the whole Amanda Jane Textiles venture in 2014, I set myself a challenge to make three dresses in three days. (You can read about it here.) On that occasion the emphasis was on recycling, which I still enjoy (see, for example, the most recent quilt pattern 'Pinstripe'where I useContinue reading "Dressmaking: summer tops"
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