Pippa Moss – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features beautiful Hawaiian appliqué quilts by artist Pippa Moss.

Hawaiian quilt-maker Pippa Moss explains her techniques & shares her beautiful quilts with us, each quilt is lovingly crafted with authentic Hawaiian patterns, hand appliqué & hand quilting. Catch up with Pippa and her beautiful quilts at the Festival of Quilts 2021

Images courtesy: http://welshquilts.blogspot.com

red on a white background - hand appliquéd Hawaiian quilt by Pippa Moss
Hand appliquéd Hawaiian quilt by Pippa Moss
Green on cream Hawaiian quilt by Pippa
BookHawaiian Quilt by Pippa

Books and patterns mentioned in the video:

Hawaiian Quilt Patterns: 

Suggested Baltimore Books by Elly Sienkiewicz:

Watch this space! – join the mailing list and be first to see some wonderful artist interviews.

Dawn Cameron Dick – Meet the Artist

Dawn Cameron-Dick

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features beautiful appliqué quilts by artist Dawn Cameron Dick.

Dawn has over 40 years experience working in the textiles industry and is best known for her signature technique ‘Invisible Machine Appliqué’. She teaches all over the world including the Festival of Quilts, Houston Quilt Festival & QuiltEuro. Dawn has written four books (details below), presented on a TV sales channel, filmed classes for Just Hands on TV and filmed her own DVDs. Catch up with Dawn at the Festival of Quilts 2021 as she explains her techniques and shares her beautiful exhibition quilts with us.

Images courtesy: https://www.dawncamerondick.com/

patchwork quilt. white square on point inside a lime green square. What square is filled with pink applique flowers and green leaves
Artwork by Dawn Cameron-Dick
reverse applique ammonite shell created in a spiral of rainbow colours
Artwork by Dawn

Dawn’s books:

It’s been brilliant to be back filming again. I’ve really missed talking with other textile artists – sharing our love of cloth.

Watch this space! – join the mailing list and be first to see some wonderful artist interviews.

Contact Magazine July 2021

In Contact Magazine July 2021 you’ll discover an article sharing the story behind the name ‘Arnold’s Attic’. This digital magazine is the latest publication by the UK Embroiderers’ Guild. If fancy a quick peek, I’ve added a snippet below for you to read.

A copy of the Contact Magazine article
Snapshot of the Contact Magazine article

“Catherine’s use of the name ‘Arnolds Attic’ came about after a chance opportunity to acquire a large collection of vintage haberdashery, cloth and ephemera from a friend of her aunt who was clearing out his house.  The family had worked in the Lancashire textile mills for generations and as his mother had been an avid collector of fabrics her entire life, the collection was varied and substantial.  To honour the memory of this kind gift which moved Catherine from being a keen hobbyist to a passionate explorer and experimenter, she called it after the man and where the collection had been stored – Arnold’s Attic. “

The collection has inspired and appears in many of the works produced over the years and continues to provide a rich kaleidoscope of ideas, source materials and challenges when coupled with Catherine’s memories and heritage of growing up in Lancashire. Catherine began to focus on pieces with this common thread and exhibitions to showcase these to educate and inform about the many aspects of this important era and her childhood growing up in the now declining industries. In more recent years, Catherine has sought to perfect a style of ‘handwriting’ stitching in her signature red thread (a lot sourced from the collection) and use this to narrate stories to conjure images and emotions and fire the imagination.

Contact /magazine July 2021

The Guild contacted me earlier this year asking me to take part in the series ‘A-Z of Artists’. It’s an honour to share my work alongside some amazing textile artists. The artworks appearing in the article are Matchbox Challenge and Time for Tea, which I created under the name of Catherine Hill Textile Artist.