the dyers hand

Title with apologies to Woody Guthrie. Very much alive and very busy, but decided to resuscitate the blog, at least until I have a website...

Last year I was fortunate enough to be selected as a guest artist for Cwilt Cymru, a group whose work I had admired since seeing it in the ...

You may have seen it at Festival of Quilts.  It was also featured on The Quilt Show in the US as one of a small selection of art quilts....

The sad news is that my lovely cat Django died suddenly on Wednesday night.  It was very sudden and very unexpected.  Despite his age it...

I don't normally take this long over a quilt.  This one took just over a year.  It began with a workshop with Jo Budd on monoprinting an...

This one goes well with my fur... ...but this one matches my eyes! http://lilypadquilting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-2012-pets...

...about twenty-five minutes ago.  Not the greatest photograph in the world  - the torch relay was running late and he was going pretty ...

...of what I did this weekend.  More to follow

The Contemporary Quilt Group, of which I am a member, has an exhibition at Festival of Quilts this year and I was one of the sixty-plus m...

Saturday was the latest meeting of Contemporary Quilt Region 14, a workshop with tutor Janet Bottomley on Liberated Piecing.  One of the bes...