by GillyMac | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Now that there quite a few people coming along to classes and so many brilliant things are being created, it has been on my mind to find a way to share more of what we do just between ourselves. I already post some of the work in my gallery page on this website, and...
by GillyMac | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Earlier on this year the GillyMac Thursday evening patchwork and quilting group started on a project of Liberated Quilting, inspired by book of that title by Gwen Marsden. Our quilts started along the same lines as Gwen’s, but soon, as with all our Thursday evening...
by GillyMac | Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorised
Recently I have been researching the world of applications for patchwork and quilting to see what’s out there. In teaching, I already regularly use a few, but I was ask to write an article for an online publication so I thought I’d share my top tips....
by GillyMac | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorised
Oh my goodness.. we are about done ! Yesterday was the last big push. The GillyMac room upstairs is tidied, labelled, dusted and vacuumed. Downstairs we are leaner, with less clutter but still with some of the books I love on view for inspiration! In the next couple...
by GillyMac | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorised
I have no idea why it seems to be such a secret that to work with kids is just the best job (though teaching my two Thursday groups is a close run wonderful thing)!! This Summer, I’ve had the pleasure to teach just over 60 children, either at home, on Young Quilters...
by GillyMac | Aug 9, 2015 | Uncategorised
For the second year running, the same group of girls from GillyMac Designs have won a prize at the Festival of Quilts. This year, Wizarding Magic, a piece created by my Senior Sewing Group came runner up in the Secondary Schools category. The GillyMac Senior Sewing...
by GillyMac | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorised
This past week … Armed with a labelling machine, oodles of card and the amazing enthusiasm of Tracy… We have been sorting, clearing, cleaning and tidying the studio and the GillyMac stash. This activity has been precipitated by an increasing need to...
by GillyMac | Jul 12, 2015 | Uncategorised
At school, my maths teacher, Mr Collins, used to say to me, “Gill, it’s no good being nearly right. Nearly right is wrong!”. The problem is that when something is nearly right, you want it to be right soo much it is very hard to make that leap of...
by GillyMac | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorised
It’s not just you… it is me too…. ! Just lately I have been backing up things to quilt. Sometimes it just happens. I end up with a number of requests for classes and I get the tops made and then slow down at the point of quilting. Often it is...
by GillyMac | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorised
At GillyMac I have projects I am doing for classes, I have the childrens’ class projects all here in baskets ready for their next lesson, I have projects on my design wall for new patchwork classes, I have projects on the mannequin for my next sewing class, I...
