Category Archives: Patchwork and Quilting

London treats and tailors’ thimbles

Although I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North-East of England, I grew up in a village in the Buckinghamshire countryside. A forty-minute train journey from the nearby town was enough to take you to London for a ‘day out’. So a day in the capital equals a special treat for me – and nowContinueContinue reading “London treats and tailors’ thimbles”

Still thinking about stitching

I have just been preparing (and then giving) a talk entitled ‘Coming to Textiles the Long Way Round’. It took some time to get ready as it involved lots of visuals and I wanted to make it entertaining as well as informative. In the end it was very instructive for me, actually! I realised theContinueContinue reading “Still thinking about stitching”