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Quilting to please myself
I was at a bit of a loose end yesterday – I had finished the marking and didn’t feel like doing anything very mentally demanding, so I decided to go up to my workroom and assemble a small project I...
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In which I return to my sewing machine
In a recent post I was complaining about not having enough time to do any stitching and how edgy and nervous this made me felt. Well, this week I have managed to get upstairs to my work room to do...
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The Joy of Drawing
In recent weeks I have seem to have been doing a lot of work on my drawing, and I have started really to enjoy it, and to believe that I can draw what I want to my satisfaction. I did a great on-line...
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St Fagans National History Museum – handling quilts collection
On Thursday I gave myself the great treat of a coach trip to St Fagans Museum of National History, just outside Cardiif in South Wales. It was Bristol Quilters’ Annual Summer Outing, and we went to...
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Family joke
It’s a family joke that no matter where we go on holiday, no matter how remote or how desolate, I will always find the quilting shop. Yesterday was no exception. We were in a tiny hilltop town in...
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What I did on Saturday
Olympic Cauldron: beautiful and functional I spent Saturday afternoon in the company of the delightful Gwent Quilters giving the talk at their annual Summer lunch. They gave me and the medieval...
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St Laura and the Nuits blanches
On Friday night I found myself completely unable to sleep: wide awake, thoughts racing through my head. I tried all those relaxation exercises, but after a while I gave in and got up. I went...
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My latest quilt
This is my new quilt. It is a cautionary tale really. I wanted to have a second large ‘statement’ piece in the York exhibition and so I went flat out to finish it, with predictable results. I...
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Telling Tales – Bath Textile Artists’ New Show at Bristol Guild
It’s an exciting day today – the Bath Textile Artists’ exhibition at Bristol Guild ‘goes up’. I have to drop off my my work at 10.00 am. This is our first big exhibition for a while, and features...
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My latest (small) quilt
Most quilters I know have a travelling project, something they can take with them on holiday, or on a long journey, or for the really obsessive, to do in waiting rooms on visits to the doctors or...
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On not having a Kaffe Fassett quilt
I haven’t posted much recently because I am mainly trying to finish things off and there isn’t much to show. I have taken two quilts to be professionally quilted which is a great way of getting...
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All our yesterdays
I have been clearing out the stuff we had to clear out from my mother-in-law’s attic in something of a hurry, and finally got round to a bag that I don’t think I have opened for at least fifteen...
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My quilting bona fides
Most of the time I make quite small pieces, or large pieces which are more about surface embellishment or ‘ideas’. But just occasionally I do a bit of traditional non-nonsense, uncomplicated...
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What I did at the weekend
As part of my day job, I chair a scholarly organisation of academics working with critical or alternative ideas about management and organising, SCOS, which stands for Standing Conference on...
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My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
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Kaffe Fassett at the London Fashion and Textiles Museum
Yesterday I went to the London Fashion and Textile Museum with my Grate Frend, Beatriz. We went to see the Kaffe Fassett exhibition. She had never heard of him, which I found a bit strange as all...
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Festival of Quilts, NEC
Retro, one of the magnificent quilts on display at this year’s Festival of Quilts This year I managed to get to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham. I went with my Grate Frends, Alison,...
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Mandy Pattullo at the Festival of Quilts
I posted earlier in the week about the Festival of Quilts at the NEC. I had walked all the way round several times, I thought, but almost at the end of my visit I came to a white cube gallery that I...
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What I did at the weekend
On Saturday I went to Builth Wells in Mid Wales to do a talk for the area day of the Quilters’ Guild Region 12. Their small but magnificent banner is shown in the picture above. Quilters, kindly...
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This is not something I thought I’d ever live to see
This weekend’s Financial Times magazine has an article about Tracey Chevalier teaching the journalist to quilt. The article is about her ‘method’ writing – like method acting, but it does sort of...
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