Hello – I’m Carolyn Gibbs, and my great love is traditional style patchwork and quilting – designing and making things myself, as well as enjoying antique quilts made by others.

In my “other life” I teach Che…

A special child needs a special present – here’s an idea for a personalised and unusual gift which will be useful for years.

This card hanger can string along a wall, or over a door, and because an alp…

I collect antique quilts, mostly from EBay, and some of them arrive showing plenty of evidence of a hard life. If they are in good condition structurally, but very dirty, I usually wash them. People often ask me how…

The North Country Quilts exhibition at the Bowes Museum on until January 2022 contains some wonderful examples of typical British styles.
In the last post, I wrote about the Strippy Quilts. Today the topic is the…

Currently, there is a wonderful exhibition of Heritage quilts on display at the Bowes Museum, which is near Barnard Castle. These are all British quilts made in the North East of England from the mid nineteenth…

The long winter lockdown is over and retail has now been open for nearly three months. We are all happy that we can see our family and have a chatter over coffee with a friend. Unfortunately not everything is as…

Beginners often start with stitching squares together to make their first patchwork quilt.Many experienced patchworkers know a simple trick to help get the seams lined up nicely when the squares are stitched…

There are three main ways to copy a design onto your fabric:

Tracing the design onto the fabric from a paper copy. This must be done before layering.
Drawing the design through the gaps in a stencil (purchased or…

Have you ever heard of digitally printed fabrics?? The technology these days is moving forward in everything and the production of the fabrics is no exception. I had the opportunity to test a series of digitally…