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”

Running a small business

The start of this month marks the second anniversary of Amanda Jane Textiles. This year I hardly noticed the date for the schools going back after the long summer holiday and although I sometimes still dream about teaching(!), I feel I have finally made the transition from teacher to entrepreneur. During these 24 months IContinueContinue reading “Running a small business”