Welcome to my website.   It will be mainly about stitching - mostly  quilting. 

I began quilting, like so many others of my generation, with Laura Ashley fabrics in the 1970s.  Life/children/work intervened and I did not seriously return to quilting/textile art until I was approaching retirement.  I felt I wanted to stretch myself, so took the C & G certificate followed by the Diploma.  Studying for the Diploma worked well for me as I tried so many different techniques and styles and, one day, realised that I knew in which direction my style was developing.  Much as I love abstract textiles/quilting, and admire many other artists, it is not my area.   I love to draw, paint, print and stitch and this is what I now do.

Awards: 

"Best of World" in the World Quilt Show in the U.S. 2014
Visitors' Choice - Bristol Quilters Exhibition 2014
First prize in the Pictorial Section at Festival of Quilts, UK in 2013
3rd in Best New Amateur FOQ 2013
Best Machine Quilting  - South West Quilt and Textile Show 2016
Highly Commended - South West Textile Show 2017


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I belong to a number of different groups and here are the links:

Contemporary Quilters West:      http://www.contemporaryquilterswest.org/  
SAQA - Juried Artist Member:     http://www.saqa.com.
Threaded Together​                      http://www.threaded-together.co.uk
​Bristol Quilters:                            http://bristolquilters.co.uk/

Exhibitions in 2020:

With Threaded Together - Scottish Exhibition Centre, Glasgow  4th - 8th March
With Six Dames - "Quilt Expo en Beaujolais", Parc Expo, Villefranche sur Saone, France   15th-18th April 
Unfolding Stories 4 with C Q West  - Lansdown Gallery, Stroud GL5 1BB  12th - 24th May