I took an Adult Education evening patchwork class in the late 1970s at Worcester Technical College. The class tutor was Brenda Cox, who had been a founding member of Malvern Quilters. Whilst I loved Brenda's teaching and enthusiasm, I hated the techniques, cutting shapes from graph paper, sticking them onto card, tracing around the templates with a pencil and cutting out with scissors. Then everything was stitched together by hand. I remember asking why we couldn't machine our pieces together, but was told that patchwork was hand-pieced! I was in love with patchwork, but not the technique. Fast-forward a few years and I was living in France and wanted to go back to patchwork, but fabric was 20€/metre, and somehow I accumulated fabric but didn't make much. I returned to the UK at the end of 2019 and brought back fabric and books rather than furniture... Since then I've been enthusiastically making quilts and accumulating even more fabric - I have an extensively curated private collection, not a stash!

Quilts

Wallhangings

Charity quilts