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Bowes Museum Quilt Exhibition

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, seen from the bottom of the drive, showing the formal gardens in front

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, photo By Amanda Jane Ogden The Bowes Museum is currently showing a Quilt Exhibition, as I mentioned in last week’s blog post. The Museum was the setting for my workshops last Friday: hand-stitched patchwork in the morning and crazy patchwork in the afternoon. We left the North-East (to move toContinueContinue reading “Bowes Museum Quilt Exhibition”

North Country Quilts

Hands holding a needle and embroidery thread, the person is working on a piece of crazy patchwork

I have been thinking a lot about North Country Quilts at the moment. I recently had the pleasure of teaching two groups of people (via Zoom) about North Country Quilts. It was wonderful to introduce them all to the quiet pleasures of hand-quilting and to share a little of the quilting tradition in the NorthContinueContinue reading “North Country Quilts”