Festival of Quilts 2016

Each year my Quilt Group (Durham Quilters), travels together down to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, to attend the Festival of Quilts. We generally spend three days at the Festival, which lasts for four days in total. However, this year some of us set off at 7am on the Thursday, arriving soon afterContinueContinue reading “Festival of Quilts 2016”

Small quilts

At the weekend I helped with an exhibition day organised by the North-East region of the Quilters’ Guild. My tasks included selling Tombola tickets (great fun seeing people win sewing-related items), and then later, looking after the sales table, full of quiltery-type items for sale: mugs, cards, address labels, patterns, etc and – most usefullyContinueContinue reading “Small quilts”