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On the biography page you will see where I started and where I am at now. I wish I had more time to make quilts but this is something that I do for pleasure and not to pay the bills!  I am so glad that I started out on the long road to using up all my fabric stash - something that I will never accomplish I hasten to add - as it has given me such joy over the years.

I trained as a graphic artist at the Reigate School of Art and specialised in package design, printing and calligraphy. Although there was a textile department at Reigate I wasn't interested in fabrics at that stage.  After leaving art school I ran the Art Department of a local stationers and kept up my drawing and painting.

It was in the 1960s that Blue Peter (the children's television programme) showed how to make a patchwork quilt and I thought I would give it a go.  The only fabric I could find was crimplene which didn't hold a crease and I tried to fold this over newspaper templates of hexagons. Needless to say it wasn't a complete success. I believe the semi-finished product languished in a bag in my mother's attic for many years and has never seen the light of day since.

After various travels around Europe I was living in Belfast and a neighbour took me to a patchwork exhibition at the Ulster Folk Museum and the rest, as they say, is history! I was totally smitten by the colour and pattern that I saw and realised that here was a creative outlet that would be better than slapping paint onto hardboard. I could make large areas of pattern and colour to  my hearts content.

Over the years each time we moved I started up another quilting group. It is the best way I know of making friends and having a good time. It gives me great pleasure to see some of those groups still in existance and quilts made by some of those ladies winning prizes at national shows. I have made so many friends over the last 25 years that I would thoroughly recommend everyone to quilt!

A quilters best friend - Poppy.   1999-2010