Sew2Speak

Links

The following are some other web sites that I have found useful - if you know of useful sites which are not mentioned here, feel free to let me know, so that I can consider adding them here.

Blogroll

An elegant sufficiency
Gill, England, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

Concealed, Discovered, Revealed
Sue Lawty, Artist in Residence, V&A London

Contemporary Quilts
Lisa Call, USA

Creative Conversation
Myrna Giesbrecht shares her creative journey - a great teacher

Dena Crain
Art Quilter in Kenya

Digital Gran
Margaret R, North Wales, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

Dyeing 2 sew
Valeri, quilter and dyer, UK

Entwinements
From the shibori studio of Karren K. Brito

Fabric of Meditation
Sara Lechner, Austria

Grumpy Shopkeeper
Grumpy, Scotland, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

In a minute ago
Sharon Boggon, Crazy quilter, Australia

Juliettes Place
Juliette Coates, mixed media artist, UK

Kristin’s musings
Kristin La Flamme, Germany

mainly zaz
Sara Hansson, Sweden

Marjie’s Dye Studio
Marjie McWilliams teaches the secrets of dyeing at the Quilt University

Musings of a textile itinerant
Dijanne Cevaal, textile artist, Australia

Natural Dye Journal
Kimberly Baxter Packwood, Midwest, USA

Quiltkunstquilt
Christiane Kühr, Germany

Rust tex
Lois Jarvis, Wisconsin, USA

Serentex
A group of textile artists from North Wales, UK

Sonji says
Sonji Hunt, Wisconsin, USA

Spirit Cloth
Jude Hill’s quilting story

Textile goddess
Helen Cowan, England, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

Textile tales
Carol McFee, North Wales, UK from Loose End blog ring

The Magic Armchair Traveller
Sue, England, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

The Undraped Textile Artist
Lesley Taylor, Scotland, UK from Loose Ends blog ring

what if?
Jude Hill’s blog about what iffing.

whip up
handcraft in a hectic world

Quilt Artists

Ann Johnston
Quiltmaker

David Walker
artist - photographer - writer - web designer

Dena Crain
Kenya Kwilts

About quilting

International Quilt Study Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
The International Quilt Study Center (IQSC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was established in 1997 as a result of the donation of more than 900 quilts by collectors Ardis and Robert James.

Quilt University
An excellent way to learn more about different aspects of quilting, dyeing and patchwork.

Save Our Stories
Quilters talk about their work, inspiration and why they do it.

Womenfolk - Quilts and quilters yesterday and today
Lots of interesting information about patchwork and quilting around the world

Exhibitions

European Patchwork Festival
An annual patchwork festival in Val d’Argent, France

Patchwork & Quilt Expo X
Tenth biennial quilting exhibition of the International Quilt Association to be held in Lyon, France in June 2006.

The Festival of Quilts
An annual exhibition of quilts in Birmingham, UK

Suppliers

Design Matters
Linda and Laura Kemshall. This is where I’m taking my City and Guilds course on Patchwork and Quilting

Fabric Designs
Marjie McWilliams is my dyeing tutor at the Quilt Universtiy and supplies all you need for dyeing worldwide.

Patchworkstudio an der Stadtmauer
My local quilt shop, where I took my first patchwork classes.

The patchwork shop near Munich
At Günter Panenka’s site you can buy most things you need for dyeing and a lot of the more unusual materials for patchwork. He is very service oriented and responds to orders and queries promptly. Lots of extra information on his site.