Malvern Quilters
  • About Malvern Quilters
  • News from Malvern Quilters
    • What's on - quilt and textile related events
  • Meeting Information
  • Programme 2024-2025
  • Exhibition 2024
  • Stitching for Charity
  • Members' Makes
    • Sampler Quilts 2019-2020
    • Members' Makes - Ashley Holder
    • Members' Makes - Denise Strutt
    • Members' Makes - Geraldine Slade
    • Members' Makes - Irene Shaw
    • Members' Makes - Jacquie Clegg
    • Members' Makes - Janis Taylor
    • Members' Makes - Pat Bernard
    • Members' Makes - Sally Kidd
    • Members' Makes - Teresa Cuthbert
  • For Sale & Wanted
  • Contact Us
  • Useful Links
    • Equipment for loan
    • Quilting Glossary
    • Carols recommedations for zips and fabric
    • Books we like
  • Workshops and Sit & Sew Days
  • Group Quilt 2025
    • President's Quilt 2022
    • Ruby Rose Quilt >
      • Edith Walk Photo Exhibition

Useful information and links

Workshops and Sit & Sew days

We hold several workshops and Sit & Sew days throughout the year. Details are on the Programme page. Venue and time information for these days is here.

Equipment for loan

Malvern Quilters has Sizzix die cutting equipment and a short-arm quilting machine for loan to members of the group. Details are here.​

Bank details

Malvern Quilters' bank details - for membership and workshop payments
Lloyd’s Bank Ltd - Sort code: 30-98-97, Account name: Malvern Quilters, Account No: 80454060.
Please use your full name as your reference to ensure easy identification of your payment and workshop reference if you're enrolling for a workshop.

Fabric shops

  • ​​Amo Threads (deadstock fabrics) - online​
  • Doughty's - Hereford​
  • Empress Mills - Colne
  • Lady Sew and Sew - Henley-upon-Thames​
  • Midsomer Quilting - Chilcompton
  • Oh Sew Crafty - Kidderminster
  • The Cotton Patch - Birmingham
  • The Patchwork Basket - Newent
  • The Stitchery - Upton-Upon Severn ​​
  • Village Fabrics - Inkberrow
  • White Cottage Country Crafts - Bridgnorth
​Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  • Gloucester Resource Centre - excellent crafting supplies; some fabric, but little 100% cotton
Herefordshire Reuse & Recycling Organisation - general secondhand furniture and clothes; good small pieces of fabric, craft supplies. Note: if travelling from Malvern, it may be easier to go into Hereford centre and then out, otherwise SatNav takes you on a long country route​!
  • Worcester Remade - different sorts of fabric, craft materials, quilting magazines for 20p.

YouTube Channels

  • Carolina Moore - demystifying the scant 1/4"
  • Just Get it Done Quilts
  • Missouri Star Quilt Company
  • The Quilt Show - quilting website hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims
  • The Sewing Studio

Quilters' Guild

  • Quilters' Guild - website of The Quilters' Guild of The British Isles
  • Quilters' Guild Region 11 (our region)
  • Quilters' Guild - quiltmaking basics

Quilt Shows

Information about quilt shows and textile-related events is now on the What's On page

Podcasts

A Quilting Life
American Patchwork & Quilting Podcasts
Check your thread
Great British Quilter Podcasts
Haptic & Hue
Quilt & Tell
Quilt Buzz
Quilter on Fire
Seamside with Zak Foster
The Secret History of Quilting

Quilting magazines from the library

Membership of Worcestershire Libraries is free, and you can access Pressreader from your library account​. The following quilting magazines are available on that platform:
- Arte em Patchwork- Love Patchwork & Quilting
- Patchwork
- Patchwork Passo a Passo
- Quilter's Companion
- Quilter's World
- Stitch & Quilt
- Today's Quilter

References

Aurifil Shade Card (downloadable)
Economy block tutorial and size chart

Friendship star blocks in six sizes
Half square triangle reference sheet
Hobbs' Batting reference guide
Nine-patch guide
Quilt backing guide
Quilting accronyms
Quilting glossary/terms
Sawtooth Star Cutting Chart - for stars from 3" to 20"
Schmetz needle guide

Ultimate Quilt size reference sheet​​
X-patch calculator - take the maths out of the block sizing for 4-, 9-, 16 and 25-patch blocks

Local quilt groups

Ledbury Quilters
Saltway Quilters, Droitwich
Three Pears Quilters, Worcester

Quilt History

- A Brief History of the American Quilt (Mary Fons)
- A Scant History of Patchwork & Quilting in the British Isles
- Material Culture: Quilt Historian Barbara Brackman's Blog about Quilts & Fabric Past and Present
- Within the Frame
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  • About Malvern Quilters
  • News from Malvern Quilters
    • What's on - quilt and textile related events
  • Meeting Information
  • Programme 2024-2025
  • Exhibition 2024
  • Stitching for Charity
  • Members' Makes
    • Sampler Quilts 2019-2020
    • Members' Makes - Ashley Holder
    • Members' Makes - Denise Strutt
    • Members' Makes - Geraldine Slade
    • Members' Makes - Irene Shaw
    • Members' Makes - Jacquie Clegg
    • Members' Makes - Janis Taylor
    • Members' Makes - Pat Bernard
    • Members' Makes - Sally Kidd
    • Members' Makes - Teresa Cuthbert
  • For Sale & Wanted
  • Contact Us
  • Useful Links
    • Equipment for loan
    • Quilting Glossary
    • Carols recommedations for zips and fabric
    • Books we like
  • Workshops and Sit & Sew Days
  • Group Quilt 2025
    • President's Quilt 2022
    • Ruby Rose Quilt >
      • Edith Walk Photo Exhibition