Historic quilts – Amanda Jane Textiles

Festival of Quilts 2025, Part 2

'Bright Morning Star' designed and made by Amanda Jane Ogden

This is my second post about my visit to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham this year (the first is here. As before, I’m sharing quilts that caught my eye this year, plus today I’ll show you the three quilts I put in to the competition. I loved the vibrant colours andContinueContinue reading “Festival of Quilts 2025, Part 2”

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”