Tin Hut Textiles Exhibition at Makit Fenland Fair

The next Tin Hut Textiles Exhibition will be as part of the Makit Fenland Fair in St Ives.  This is a one-day event with several exhibiting groups plus a range of traders, demonstrators and guild stands.

Tin Hut will be showing the 'Seasons' collection, the 'Decay' collection plus some new 3D pieces.

When: 10am-4pm, Saturday 7th November 2015
Where: Burgess Hall, St. Ivo Leisure Centre, Westwood Road, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6WU
How much: £5.00 for adults (under 14s free)

www.makitfairs.com/fenland-fair/

the Tipsy Stitcher

This is a brand new piece - the binding stitched on last night only hours before it was due to be exhibited as usual - made for the Out Of The Fold exhibition at:

Workwise Cavern 4, 

Whiting Street

Bury St Edmunds

Suffolk

from Sat 24th October until Sat 31st October (closed Sunday and Monday) 10am until 4pm

This was a 'Moving On' challenge to take a traditional block - in this case the Drunkards path block - and move it on and make a piece in our own style.  

The Tipsy Stitcher 2015 - black linen wholecloth, discharged and bleached. Machine stitched.

The Tipsy Stitcher (detail)

Out of the Fold Exhibition now open

Applique Frame Quilt

My Ickleton and Fulbourn leisure groups will be tackling an applique frame quilt this term so here is the example I have made to show the sort of thing they can do.  All needle-turn applique so it took ages but I really enjoyed sitting in the autumn sun or (ore often) sitting listening to the rain bounce off the conservatory roof whilst I did all the hand stitching.

Follow the blog to see how the talented ladies of Ickleton and Fulbourn do with this technique.

'Seasons' exhibition now open

The Tin Hut exhibition 'SEASONS' is now open.

Pond Gallery
Snape Maltings
Snape
Aldeburgh
Suffolk

Friday 4th September 2015 - Wed 9th September 2015
From 10am until 5pm each day

Festival of Quilts

Come and visit my stand at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC at Birmingham from Thursday 6th until Sunday 9th August. It is stand QIA7 in the Quilting In Action zone.

My 'Copperplate' triptych will be hanging in the Quilting In Action Gallery and my 'Coppercoil' quilt will be exhibited as part of the CQ 'Elements' Gallery.

'Coppercoil' 

Cottenham Summer School

Had a lovely week teaching at Cottenham Summer School. Good venue, lots of light and space, nice food and friendly people. 16 students made a quilt in a week or worked on their own projects. Here are some of the results.

Beryl's Stardust quilt with her own embroidered motifs

Ruth's delightful quilt using vintage embroidered pieces combined with printed fabrics

Mel and one of her beautifully pieced owls

Shirley used a green batik jellyroll for her stardust quilt

Diane worked on a project using the Kansas Trouble block 

Veronica used a classic blue and white combo for her Sails quilt

Nora's Stardust quilt with lovely soft colours

Hilarie's first ever quilt

Judy's glorious bright batiks

Daphne and her Sails quilt