Quilting – Page 40 – Amanda Jane Textiles

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”

Four ways to ‘pin’ a layered-up quilt

quilter's pins, curved safety pins for holding the layers of a quilt

So you have a completed quilt top. You have layered it up with wadding (batting) in the middle and backing fabric. (For information on how to layer up your quilt, look here). You now need to secure the three layers together well enough to be able to add quilting to your quilt. There are fourContinueContinue reading “Four ways to ‘pin’ a layered-up quilt”