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Quilts in the Woods

textile art by Gillian Cooper in Tir Na nOg woods

If you are a regular reader of this blog (thank you!) you will know that I was in Balfron in Scotland last month for the Final Show of the 2026 City & Guilds Diploma and Certificate students of Patchwork and Quilting, taught by Textile Artist Gillian Cooper. I stayed in very nice self-catering accommodation (contactContinueContinue reading “Quilts in the Woods”

Textiles and paintings in Oxford

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, photo by Amanda Jane Ogden

Last week, I went on a trip to Oxford with three quilter friends to see an exhibition of quilts from Hawaii entitled ‘Hawaii Ma uka to Ma kai’. Ma uka to Ma kai exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Click on this link to exhibition on the Museum website: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/ma-uka-to-ma-kai to see an explanationContinueContinue reading “Textiles and paintings in Oxford”