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Visit to Calico Kate and the Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter, West Wales - Plan your visit!
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On our trip to West Wales we enjoyed driving through stunning valleys along roads fringed with daffodils. The blue skies and unbroken sunshine made the Welsh landscape more dramatic than my previous memories of our last visit which was pre-Covid.
The plan was to visit Calico Kate's quilt shop and then to a customer to service her Amara so a two-day trip. What we hadn't appreciated was that the Welsh Quilt Centre had recently re-opened and it's located only two doors down from Calico Kate's shop. Things were getting better and better!
You can find out more about Calico Kate's shop by watching the YouTube video. These are photos of the inside of Kate's shop.
Kate has recently purchased a Handi Quilter Moxie and describes how she is looking forward to learning new skills in longarm quilting.
High Street Lampeter - Calico Kate
The proscenium arch that is Calico Kate's window display
Lovely post by Kate about Helen's quilt and Pinhole Quilting!
Calico Kate on the High Street Lampeter. Next door is a tea shop and then the Quilt Museum
Pete and Kate - welcome to a joyful and bright fabric shop!!
A recent finish by Helen Burnham showing how she zig zags the edges to keep the edges consistent prior to binding
Top floor cutting room, Japanese fabrics, retro and 50's
Janet Clare and more!
Janet Clare and more!
Janet Clare and more!
Children's and novelty fabrics
Fun sheep - so appropriate for Wales!
Tilda Fabrics
Tilda Fabrics
Helen in the Kaffe Fassett area
Kilmt closeup quilted by Helen Burnham on her Handi Quilter Moxie
Kilmt closeup quilted by Helen Burnham on her Handi Quilter Moxie
Kilmt closeup quilted by Helen Burnham on her Handi Quilter Moxie
Kilmt closeup quilted by Helen Burnham on her Handi Quilter Moxie
Lots of Haberdashery, Thread and Wool supplies
Quilt Eat Sleep & Repeat
Kate of Calio Kate
Exhibition on until Christmas Eve 2022
Here is a selection of quilts from the Exhibition. They have a lovely book that accompanies the exhibition that tells you more about some of the quilts.
Bold applique - a variation of Rose of Sharon. Hand quilted. Traditional folk art piece.
I particularly loved this Victorian purples patchwork. From Queen Victoria's half mourning period. Stunning piece.
Traditional welsh quilt made as part of the Rural Industries Bureau scheme
We thought the two above were modern quilts (perhaps a Kaffe Fassett fabric in the centre of the one on the left) only to find that they were made around 1910 by Mrs Annie Davies. She lived above a drapers shop in Aberystwyth. She probably used offcuts from the drapers. The striking fabric on the inner central pinwheel really creates a "zany design" as the catalogue calls it!
Grandma's garden quilt. Silk and velvets made by a lady in Neath just prior to emigrating to Canada at the end of the 19th century. She made it as a keepsake. The papers were left in and can be seen through some of the fabrics that have faded away.
Paisley Pageant Exhibition by Sandie Lush
This is Sandie Lush's third series of hand quilted Welsh cot quilts. It's based on paisley patterns and variations from an original prize-winning quilt by Mrs May Thomas in 1901.
Sandie's work has always been a big draw for me - I've met Sandie over the years from Cabot Quilting conferences I attended in the 1990s and at various quilt shows over the years where her hand quilting quite often took the top prizes (along with a few other significant well-known hand quilters who have preserved this quilt form at a high level).
It was fantastic to see how Sandie has produced another body of work around a traditional design and theme.
We hope this has given you a taster of Calico Kate's Shop and the Quilt Museum. Plus don't miss contacting Jen Jones for Antique Quilts and Blankets in her 18th century cottage shop.
Abigail Sheridan de Graaff is a Handi Quilter Educator and Professional Longarm Quilter. From her quilting studio in Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire Abigail uses a Handi Quilter Amara 20" longarm machine with the computerised Pro-Stitcher system to complete her own as well as customer quilts through her business Cut&Alter. In this blog feature Abigail explores Glide 40wt and 60wt thread, the quilter's palette. But as you'll discover, Glide thread is not just for quilting. Our Glide Thread Club launched in 2020 - you can build the entire Glide 40wt thread collection with the 27 sets of 9 1000m cones. No threads are repeated so you can confidently purchase knowing you won't have two the same! For more details visit the Thread Club pages on our website - Glide Thread Club. Before I bought my longarm machine I have to admit I knew nothing about thread, although I was not aware of this shortcoming! Basically I bought whatever was in the local shop if it was
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