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Little Laura 3
I do love an encrusted surface and this Laura has a lot of very shiny black beads appliqué-d down the right-hand-side. There is an old turquoise bead earring on the left, which I got in a lucky bag I...
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Little Laura 4
This one is the first of this series that I did. It has a very geometric stacked-up pattern feel, but the bronze on bronze pattern made with metallic machine sewing thread, here used for hand...
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What I did at the weekend
I love Bank Holidays because I don’t feel so guilty about spending a chunk of time in my workroom. I started off today making a quilt for a new baby, but it went horribly wrong when I rather...
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Louise Gardiner at Bristol Quilters
Last night were were exceptionally lucky to have Louise Gardiner, a professional embroiderer of twenty years standing, to talk to us. First of all she is a very engaging speaker, bursting with...
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The £50,000 question
Big Keith’s appraisal in ‘The Office” Events took a surprising turn this week: I had a really useful appraisal with my new colleague, Jon Beaverstock. Appraisals, for those of you fortunate enough...
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What I did on Saturday – Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition
This weekend we held Bristol Quilters’ Exhibition. It comes round once every two years which is a really good spacing because it gives us time to produce some very nice pieces. I can’t single out...
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On the joy of getting something right
Last week I had a particularly bad day at work. I went to a meeting where just about every behaviour I warn students about was on display. So, no-one (except idiotic me) was prepared to stand up to...
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Quilted beauty
Just a quick post today. This lovely quilt is my mother’s friendship quilt made by her friends for a significant birthday. She lent it to me for my talk to the Bristol Quilters on Wednesday. The...
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Latest additions to my Laura Ashley project
First of all, I am very sorry about the long gap between this post and the last one. I know a high proportion of people like to read the blog on Sunday afternoons, and I haven’t been providing you...
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Public engagement – Thinking Futures Workshop and Glamorgan Quilters
It has been one of the busiest two weeks of my life, which is why I haven’t posted anything recently. First my lovely PhD student, Zara, had her viva. Although this is her oral exam on her thesis, I...
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What I did at the weekend
If you read my previous post you will know that I have had a very busy time recently. So this weekend, although I have a head buzzing with Laura Ashley ideas which need making, I found myself making...
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Relaunching the Laura Ashley quilt
I have had a new lease of life with my Laura Ashley project. My huge Body Shop/Anita Roddick quilt has finally gone to its new home and this seems like a good time to make a start on the large Laura...
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What I did at the weekend
These are really not very good photographs of the work I did on the new Laura Ashley piece. I have had a big burst of interest in this quilt, and I am wondering if it is because the other large piece...
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What I learned about identity from Jan Hassard
The speaker at Bristol Quilters last week was the lovely and very talented Jan Hassard. She has been a member of Bristol Quilters for years, and so it was nice to see her body of work as it...
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What I did at the weekend
On Monday night I gave a talk to the Westbury Park Quilters on Album and Friendship quilts. I have been doing some research on these on and off for several months, and one of the most intriguing...
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Quilt chic
For my birthday I asked for a copy of the The Decemberists’ new album. I am not a big fan, but I really wanted the CD for the cover, which looked to me like one of the wonderful nineteenth-century...
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Falling in love again
There haven’t been many posts recently as I have been finishing things off and there hasn’t been much to report, but suddenly I have quite a lot to post about. This is a big project from my work on...
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Fabric pictures of houses
Quick post today. Yesterday was the first event on the schedule that I have drawn up with my visiting US quilt scholar academic, Marybeth Stalp. As part of the workshop, I made up some packs for...
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Quilting Cradle to Grave – Academic quilting at Bristol University
On Wednesday afternoon we had the third of our four events with Marybeth Stalp, our visiting Benjamin Meaker fellow, from the US. The theme was Cradle to Grave looking at quilting as what Marybeth...
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Dragon Hide 3
This is the third dragon hide in my series with my Grate Frend, Beatriz Acevedo. I am aiming for 25, but we’ll see how far I get. This one is made from a bag of beads I got for three pounds in a sale...
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