DESIGNS

In my life I have had many incarnations of which Quilting is the very latest. I have been a cabinet maker, a marquetarian, a tailor, a teacher of English with a speciality in children's literature, a librarian and a night school teacher of cabinet making. I am lucky to have come from a family of craftsmen and brought up over a joinery cabinet workshop and having access through my grandmother's family to my uncle's woollen clothmaking factory at Bronwydd, Carmardden. 

 

I was expected at school to go to art college but I was not encouraged to do so nor to follow into the family business. The philosophy of my family, which is today a widespread one, is that those who work with their brains achieve greater rewards than those who work with their hands and so I went off to university with the girl who became my wife and we both pursued Philosophy degrees.

 

My wife's mother was a seamstress and when I expressed an interest she taught me and when I and her daughter married she bought my first sewing machine. With that machine I made some clothes for my wife and for the children. Throughout my married life, I turned out the odd item but was mainly called upon to do alterations.

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Only in the last five years have I sewn in earnest. I cannot explain from whence the urge to quilt came, but once started it became an addiction. I have become a competent long arm quilter and have produced 40 plus quilts of various sizes in various genres. I have made wholecloth quilts, traditional American design quilts, family tree quilts and latterly a wide selection of art quilts. What next l wonder?