Mary McIntosh - Textile Artist
Location: Sudbury, Suffolk
Email: maryelmcintosh@googlemail.com
Follow my blog on: thecopperqueen.blogspot.com
I started patchwork and quilting in 1995 during a year spent in Canada and was immediately hooked. I then spent the next ten years combining my hobby with the demands of a career and family and developing my traditional patchwork skills.
But I had always wanted to become more creative and to design and make art quilts and in 2007 I took the plunge and began a City & Guilds Course with Annette Morgan. Four years later, after completing both the C&G Patchwork and Quilting Certificate and the Diploma, I am delighted that my work was selected to be displayed in the Further Education Gallery at the Festival Of Quilts in August 2011.
Taking the City & Guilds courses has completely opened up a new world of skills and creativity for me and as a passionate advocate of C&G want to share my knowledge with others. I am pleased that I an now teaching C&G as part of Creative Stitch Suffolk alongside Annette Morgan and have recently become a fully qualified teacher with a PGCE qualification awarded in 2014
www.creativestitchsuffolk.co.uk
Groups:
Out of the Fold - an exhibiting group based in Bury St Edmunds. The next Out of the Fold Exhibition 'The Journey Unfolds' will be shown at the Knitting and Stitching Shows at Alexandra Palace from 8th - 12th October 2014 and in Harrogate from 20th - 23rd Nov 2014
outofthefoldtextilegroup.blogspot.co.uk
Tin Hut Textiles - I am a founder member of this group formed from the members of the C&G diploma class of 2011. The next Tin Hut Textiles exhibition will be in the St Edmundsbury Gallery, Bury St Edmunds in October 2014.
tinhuttextiles.blogspot.co.uk
CQ - the contemporary group of the Quilters Guild
Quilters Guild - I am the website editor and member of the committee of Region 8 (Suffolk and Essex) of the Quilters Guild.
www.quiltersguild.org.uk