Textiles of all kinds appear in these posts and this week it’s all about the 1950s. Each year, Beamish Open Air Museum (which is just a few miles down the road from my house) hosts a 1950s weekend. On Saturday, it was sunny and we had visitors staying, so bought our entrance tickets and tookContinueContinue reading “Clothes and dancing from the fifties”
Category Archives: Vintage Textiles
Durham Quilting? North Country Quilting?
My quilt group is called ‘Durham Quilters’, so-called because we all quilt and we also all live in or near Durham in the North-East of England. Every now and again, we do something extra, like this week when seven of us booked our usual room, but on a Saturday in the day-time (instead of ourContinueContinue reading “Durham Quilting? North Country Quilting?”
