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Winner of Sustainable Quilts at Festival of Quilts!

 I was beyond delighted to find out I won first prize for the newly created Sustainable Quilts category at this years Festival of Quilts! It made my trip up to Birmingham doubly special as I was already giving a talk about my ‘Lucky! Lucky! Lucky!’ quilt as part of The Quilters Guild of the British Isles. So it was a busy day taking photos, meeting the sponsor of the category, Madeira. I’ve always thoroughly enjoyed a visit to the Festival and come away inspired and fired up to make more work. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet other quilters and folks from instagram. Roll on next year!





With Heather Audin, the Quilt Curator from The Quilters Guild of the British Isles, in front of my ‘Lucky! Lucky! Lucky!’ Quilt.











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