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I just finished stitching a little cot quilt for a friend and colleague’s baby. It’s been a few years since I stitched for a baby and the experience had me nostalgic and reflecting. My friend is a historian of eighteenth century relationships, and so I knew straightaway that I wanted this quilt to reference Georgian… Continue reading British Baby Quilts in Space and Time 1700-1990.

Emotional Journeys: The British Quilt in Space and Time. Last summer I collaborated on a lovely film which explores why quilts survive within families. I chose to talk about The Swaledale Farm Quilt, probably made in the 1890s by Mary Jane Dent Kilburn in the Yorkshire Dales village of Muker, high in the Swale Valley.… Continue reading The Swaledale Farm Quilt