Hello and welcome! I’m Marjorie Cook and I am thrilled to be part of this new on line resource for quilting. I live on the border of North Yorkshire and County Durham, from where I have run my quilting and longarm quilting business (Amore Quilts & Cottage Crafts) for the last 8 years. However, I have been sewing, crafting and quilting for more years than I care to remember and more recently machine embroidery has added a new dimension to the things I create. Like many quilters, I collect fabric – it may be for a particular project or just because it is pretty and will never see a rotary cutter! My longarm is called “Angel” and she is a Handiquilter Avante with Prostitcher.
2018 is going to be an exciting year for me. I will be attending the first Handiquilter Academy in February with Kimmy Brunner and Kelly Cline which will be great fun, as well as taking classes to work on my free motion skills.
I look forward to sharing my projects, as well as the process I go through with my clients for longarm quilting, working closely with them to ensure that our “vision” is the same.
“Molly’s Garden” is one of my handstitching projects – which I started in memory of my beautiful dog who I lost earlier this year. She inspected every plant and blade of grass each morning, when she did a tour of the garden. I love the colours and texure of the tweed. The pattern is something that keeps changing as I work – but most of my personal projects are like that!
As a co-ordinator for Project Linus UK, I have met some wonderful people who are so generous with their time and talents. Together with Irene Carter and Roz Elliott, Dianne Morrison and Rita White, we run a monthly workshop – Sew4Linus – sharing our combined skills to new quilters. We have worked hard to show our volunteers that learning to quilt is great fun and that each quilt is a learning curve. There are no Quilt Police and “design choices” are all part of the quilting journey.
Being part of a quilting group is more than just about making quilts and each month I look forward to sharing the views and stories of how patchwork & quilting has made a difference to our local community, bringing people together in a way I could never have imagined.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join me next time with my views from the selvedge.
Brilliant Marjorie
Thank you
Look forward to seeing you in Bristol.
It’s going to be great fun!