Quilters' Guild Blog

Alex Kingswell shares her experience organising and setting up her solo exhibitions.

our regular coffee morning with membership chair Carol Bowden

meet geraldine our new YQ officer

Pauline Macaulay shares her instructions for sewing syringe driver/drainage bottle bags, commonly used by patients in palliative and post-operative care.

meet Carol, the new Chair for Membership services at the Quilters Guild

We talk to Leah Higgins about her quilting journey, favourite techniques, inspirations and proudest moment. You can read a full interview with Leah in the winter edition of 'The Quilter', our membership magazine.

For those visiting The Festival of Quilts this August, we’re thrilled to offer a series of short gallery talks on our Collections stand this year. The Exhibition, A Diverse Patchwork, celebrates the diversity of our patchwork and quilting community.

Get to know The Guild by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country and further afield, and we want you to be able to share their work.

Clive Bruder talks to us about the inspiration and impetus behind the Boys Sew Too movement.

Angela Daymond reflects on how stitching has helped her adapt to life with a spinal cord injury. This feature first appeared in the Autumn 2020 (issue 164) of ‘The Quilter’, the quarterly member only publication of The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles.

Get to know The Guild by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country and further afield, and we want you to be able to share their work.

Get to know The Guild by meeting our talented members! Meet Guild member, Pascale Michalski.

The Quilters’ Guild Museum Collection is fortunate to have a number of interesting and unusual pieces of patchwork and quilted clothing which date from the 18th and 19th centuries, including two pockets.

An unusual theme, but one that popped into our curator’s head whilst coming up with new ideas for how to share The Collection. She has found five quilts that feature fish, so, here we go!

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! Meet Guild member, Kerry Keeble...

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country doing amazing sewing and we want you to be able to share their work.

‘Hey Mum (a Quilters’ Guild member), guess what? I’m going to work for The Quilters’ Guild’. ‘Finally’ – she rejoiced – ‘my daughter has seen the quilting light’!

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country doing amazing sewing and we want you to be able to share their work.

I’ve been the Curator of The Quilters’ Guild Museum Collection for 11 years now, and I can say that writing this feature is remarkably difficult. Here at Quilters’ Guild HQ two days are rarely the same!

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country doing amazing sewing and we want you to be able to share their work.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country doing amazing sewing and we want you to be able to share their work.

Meet a Member – Pauline Burbidge

Meet Guild member Janice Gunner, a professional Textile Artist and past President of The Guild.

Meet Guild member Jenni Smith, a quilting and dressmaking designer.

This week we invite you to join with us in giving a special welcome to Guild member Kate Percival. Kate has been a member of The Guild for many years and has contributed significantly to so many aspects of the Guild’s life.

Meet Guild member Carolyn Gibbs, a member of the Traditional Group and The British Quilt Study Group.

This week meet new member Sarah Ashford who runs the online #greatbritishquilter event and sews for many of your favourite quilting magazines!

Meet Guild member Annie Henderson-Begg, who won the City & Guilds Award at Festival of Quilts in 2017.

Meet Guild member Phillipa Naylor, who won two prizes at Festival of Quilts in 2017, The Best in Show, sponsored by Mettler and the winner in the Miniature Quilt Category.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! Every year we are so proud to have so many Guild Members who are winners at Festival of Quilts.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members. Every year we are so proud to have so many Guild members who are winners at Festival of Quilts.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! Every year we are so proud to have so many Guild Members who are winners at Festival of Quilts.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members. Every year we are so proud to have so many Guild members who are winners at Festival of Quilts.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members. We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country and we want you to share their work with you.

Get to know The Guild better by meeting our talented members! We have interesting and inspiring members all over the country doing amazing sewing and we want you to be able to share their work. We are asking Members to tell us a bit about their sewing life using five simple questions.