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Should you wash fabrics before quilt-making?

I’m just back from one of our twice-a-year quilting weekends away, which was thoroughly enjoyable. The journey to our quilting destination always involves visits to quilt shops en route and I usually buy fat quarters and scrap bags to stock up my ‘baskets of colour’, kept on the shelves behind my work table. There are […]

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”