Tag Archives: Textiles

Festival of Quilts 2017 – episode 2

The second of the four quilts entered into this year’s Festival of Quilts at Birmingham is called ‘Compass and Stars’. It went in to the ‘Traditional’ category because it uses a ‘Lone Star’ type block at the centre and a ‘Single Star’ block (with a solid centre, instead of one divided into four) around theContinueContinue reading “Festival of Quilts 2017 – episode 2”

Socks: knitted bliss

I am primarily a designer and quilt-maker, but I can’t resist adding in a knitting post because I am interested in all things textile-y and I have some lovely things to share this week. In June, we were at a charity fund-raiser which took place in the evening and centred around strawberry desserts (what aContinueContinue reading “Socks: knitted bliss”