Quilting styles strippy quilts

Corn-dolly crafter Colette Hughes describes the bleak situations our ancestors faced. “Imagine,” she says. “It’s winter and your family is hungry and cold. It gets dark early, fresh food is in short s

THE letter from the solicitor stated that I had been left a legacy by my great aunt Lucy. And I needed to make an appointment to attend their offices at my earliest convenience to ascertain further de

Megan Allen looks at the fascinating past and present of Britain’s wool towns

You Will Need Rusty Exotic Stripe Cushion • Exotic Stripe Warm ⅜ yd (Fabric 1) • Caterpillar Stripe Earth ¼ yd (Fabric 2) • Wobble Brown ⅜ yd (Fabric 3) Cool Wide Stripe Cushion • Broad Stripe Azure ¼

Last month we looked at how to calculate fabric requirements for quilt backing and binding. In this issue we will look at calculating fabrics for patchwork blocks. Calculating fabrics for patchwork bl

Discover the last surviving court of houses that once dominated the Midlands, and hear the stories of the workers who built Britain’s second city