Quilting in the news

isn’t every day that quilting gets onto the front page, but recently in the Durham Advertiser (our local free newspaper) there was a headline ‘Quilters raise tidy sum for cause’. It appeared beneath a photograph of Gillian Banks taken by her son om Banks. The piece reported on the recent Durham Quilters’ three-day quilt show.ContinueContinue reading “Quilting in the news”

A small treasure trove

I thoroughly enjoy shopping in charity shops. It’s the lure of the chase. You never do quite know what you will find. I’m always on the look-out for haberdashery, although I’ve learnt the hard way that thread which is ‘antique’ and looks beautiful may have become too weak to use. But many of my buttons,ContinueContinue reading “A small treasure trove”