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How well my husband knows me.
Mexican Wrapping Paper It was my birthday this week. It is only when your presents come wrapped in paper like this that you know your 25 year investment in a relationship was time well spent. I liked...
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The Body Shop Quilt: Nottingham panel
Body Shop Quilt: Nottingham panel, 2010 I was talking to my mother on the phone yesterday and she was asking me about the piece I had made about my home town. I can only think that she was referring...
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Recharging the batteries?
Laura Ashley hexagon patchwork I spent yesterday at an academic conference on narrative and storytelling in organisations. Just before the lunch break, Carol, one of my colleagues from UWE, asked me...
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Crossed structure bindings workshop with Lori Sauer at Heart Space Studios
Crossed structure bindings - spines In between the end of teaching and the beginning of marking, I have a bit of slack and so decided to take another bookbinding workshop with Lori Sauer. This one was...
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What I did this Saturday – Bristol Quilters Exhibition
My Grate Friend (TM Molesworth) Ceri's Quilt I spent Saturday afternoon stewarding at the Bristol Quilters’ 2011 Exhibition. What a fantastic show. There were over a hundred beautiful quilts made by...
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Exhibiting Anita
The Body Shop Quilt at the Pound, Corsham. One of the textile groups I belong to, The Bath Textile Artists, is currently exhibiting at the Pound, Corsham (www.poundarts.org.uk/), and I have a small...
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Eliza, Anita and Me
I have been spending some of my time this weekend finishing an academic paper on using portraiture as a research method, looking at what the visual image can help us to say about people we study that...
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The York Exhibiiton
I was talking to the Medieval Historian this morning and saying that I seem to have had a medium-sized skip of affirmation parked outside the house for a month which has been shovelled in through...
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A post as much for me as you
Today is a momentous day. I have finally started work towards my book. I have sat down and written out plans before for a book which all came to nothing, because I think books have to be ‘ready’...
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Relaunching the Laura Ashley quilt
I have had a new lease of life with my Laura Ashley project. My huge Body Shop/Anita Roddick quilt has finally gone to its new home and this seems like a good time to make a start on the large Laura...
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