Festival of Quilts : Part 2

Festival of Quilts : Part 1

Just back from two days at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham NEC



Here's the queue to get in Friday 10.00am

Winner of the minature quilt category

Beautifully constructed and hung - Art quilt entry

Amazing piecing and colour balance in this beautiful quilt

More photos tomorrow

Notebooks

Have been recycling some discarded maps into notebooks. This one has a stitched coptic binding so it lays flat when open, making it ideal for drawing. The map paper make lovely pages to doodle on and you can draw on places youve never heard of

Glebe Cottage plants

A few pictures from Carol Klein's garden which I visited recently. Fantastic to visit a plant lovers garden that appears to have developed naturally and is on a 'domestic' scale. Her nursery is great too!

Banksy in Bristol

Blog procrastination over

Here is my Little Gem Quilt that I have made for the Contemporary Quilt Group tombola at the Festival of Quilts to raise funds for the new Quilters Guild Museum and Gallery in York, hopefully someone will be pleased to win it! Its hand pieced and quilted while my lovely Bernina sewing machine has been away for a service. There are loads of these A4 sized quilts that have been submitted, view the gallery here