Wordsmith (n.) one who creates with words

I’ve often wished that I kept a diary or an art journal but after many attempts I’ve had to admit that I’m just not that sort. And yet, I really do want to remember and record our ordinary days. After all, what you do every day is more important than what you do once in a blue moon.

One day I realised that I could simply stitch our stories and here we are. ‘The Wordsmith’ is about noticing and cherishing the simple things in life. It’s about love letters, little notes and finding pressed flowers in favourite books. Now’s the time to quieten your mind, gather your memories and slowly piece them together with beautiful fabrics to create a lasting cloth to be treasured by generations to come: a quilted memory to cherish.

So come, gather your letters and your threads and be a wordsmith with me.

A delightful and inspiring book, ‘The Wordsmith’ features three stunning quilts and the ideas, stories and thought process that inspired them:

Includes a unique memory quilt, showcasing 26 distinctive and inspirational appliqué blocks featuring amongst other things a blithe budgie, a legendary lion, and tales of tea, tents, love and family!

Full page photographs of every alphabet letter block and memory quilt block, providing you with the inspiration to create your very own memory quilt and poetry quilt, and which can be used as full-size templates

Includes templates showing the construction of each alphabet block and the poetry design, along with fabric requirements and guidelines for making an alphabet quilt and a poetry quilt

Guidelines for creating your own memory quilt using the ‘quilt as you go’ method, which gives the creative freedom to build one complete block at a time before compiling into a finished cloth

Beautiful full colour photographs – a book to browse and treasure

High-quality lithographic printing and perfect bound paperback book with 114 pages

Size: 210mm x 210mm