Recycling fabrics: Pauline Mills

This beautiful quilt was made by quilter and Guild member Pauline Mills. Pauline is totally committed to using recycled fabrics, this piece is made entirely from striped shirts! We are now living in ‘a throw away society. The UK now sends many thousands of tonnes of clothing to landfill every year!’ We hope this has …

Textile Artist – Mandy Pattullo

The last post introduced you to two textile artists and here is another who recycles, this time, some very old textiles. Mandy Pattullo trained as a surface pattern designer and was encouraged by her college to look at old fabrics to get inspiration.  This sparked an interest that led to Mandy to start collecting old …

Inspiration round-up – eco-aware quilt making

We know that a lot of you reading Youngish Quilters are concerned about our environment and this awareness shows through your quilt making.  We hope you enjoyed reading Tuesday's post about Natural Dyeing - did it inspire you to think about trying something new?  Today's post offers some more sources of inspiration for  environmentally aware …

Natural dyeing

I was so excited to be assigned this topic, because I've been immersing myself (not literally, obviously, haha) in natural dyeing over the past year, and it's been so much fun that I'm dying to tell you all about it (see what I did there? I'll stop with the silly jokes now). Firstly, what is …

Festival of Quilts theme 2020

Competitions For Children/Schools/Groups of children   The following prizes apply for categories 13 & 14: 1st Prize: £200.00 2nd Prize: £100.00 3rd Prize: £50.00   THEME for 2020: ‘Reuse, Reduce, Recycle, Rethink’ Quilts of any size, using any technique, made by young quilters / embroiderers, in the following age ranges: a) 5 – 9 yrs …