Tag Archives: Textiles

‘Seaside Album’ quilt – January block

A year-long quilt project Welcome to the first step in the 2024 quilt project. As I explained in the New Year’s post here, I’ll be making a quilt this year and inviting you to join with me, here on the blog. This is what to expect: a new appliqué block each month a new embroidery stitchContinueContinue reading “‘Seaside Album’ quilt – January block”

‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023

Today I’d like to share with you some photos from ‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023 at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. It illustrates – with a wide range of examples – ways in which textiles reflected political upheaval, were used for propaganda or functioned as a method of resistance, This beautiful 1914 lace panelContinueContinue reading “‘The Fabric of Democracy’ exhibition 2023”