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Beyond The Festival of Quilts
I’d hoped that 2020 would be the first year I’d attend The Festival of Quilts, billed as Europe’s premier Quilt show and held annually at the Birmingham NEC. Unfortunately, like all these kind of things that have been cancelled and postponed now, that’s just not possible. Fortunately, they’re running a virtual version of the festival…
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Virtual Log Cabin Quilt
#virtuallogcabin Whilst watching The Creative Craft Show Live on Facebook last weekend (see the post), I viewed a conversation with textile artist Dionne Swift. During the interview, Dionne mentioned a collaborative project she’d conceived earlier during lockdown to create a virtual log cabin quilt in order to foster a sense of community amongst quilters/crafters during…
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The Potential of Quilting Workshops via Zoom
Recently, I randomly came across a local live quilting event on Eventbrite hosted by The Southern Maltings, a community space in Hertfordshire dedicated to making creative experiences and activities available to all. Titled ‘A Beginners Guide To Patchwork’, it caught my attention and as it was due to stream live within in a couple of…
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Bluprint (Craftsy) Saved?!
Well, for fans of the online craft education platform Bluprint (formally Craftsy), today’s announcement that TN Marketing have acquired ‘certain assts’ of the ailing business will come as very welcome news indeed. Having signed up for the annual subscription (albeit at a discounted rate), only to be told soon after that it was the end…
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Hello there!
Soooo… this’ll be my first blog post then. Not just the first on The Quilting Spot, I mean my actual first. Ever. You’re reading this, so that’s one objective ticked off already – to share my quilting thoughts, musings, projects and progress with likeminded quilty souls like you (note how I didn’t say ‘journey’ there.…
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