Featuring Patchwork & Quilting Course Information with galleries of tutor & students’ work.

A Future and a Hope (detail)

New course information for 2025-2026. For Patchwork & Quilting enthusiasts, classes are continuing at my new studio here at Mole End, North Somerset (just off Junction 21 on the M5 near Weston-Super-Mare). We’ve had a great year, (I will try and update the galleries soon  (time being the issue)!  As mentioned previously I’ve retired from teaching City & Guilds courses (after a rewarding 25 years) and I’m concentrating now on the short and long-term leisure classes. These are technique based courses – people choose what they want to learn and I teach topics as requested. There are courses to suit all levels of ability from beginner to advanced and I’ve put all the course information under ‘Courses’ in the top menu bar. You’ll see I’ve also added the current availability of places (which I’ll keep updated over the summer).

I prefer to run courses to one-day workshops, as this enables people to get to grips with a technique, develop their own ideas and complete projects (very important)! Some techniques take longer than others of course! There 6 different classes, so if someone has to miss a scheduled date (for whatever reason) they can catch-up the session in another class. This also has the benefit of everyone ultimately getting to know one-another and see what other people are working on, and it enables me to keep the courses cost-effective for everyone.

The Beginner’s class is once a month on Saturdays for ten months from September to early June. It covers a wide range of essential techniques to enable those new to the craft to get to grips with the basics and make a quilt. There are lots of examples on the website of sampler quilts made by absolute beginners. For more further information, dates and costs, click on ‘Select Page’ (for mobile users) or ‘Courses’ in the top menu.

If you’d like to discuss learning a particular topic, then please get in touch through the website (the contact details are above).

Exhibition News –  Forthcoming exhibitions; Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham: 31 July – 3 August 2024.  The Craft4Crafters show at Shepton Mallet: (29 September, Bath & West Showground). Quilts UK Malvern, Worcs. 14-17 My 2026. Bristol Quilters exhibition, Badminton School date TBA

Galleries  – Click on the first thumbnail picture and follow the arrows to scroll through each Gallery.

For booking forms – please contact me through the ‘Contact’ link above

Links – there are links to other artists mentioned on the website.  

I hope you enjoy browsing through the inspirational items students have created – they never cease to amaze me! It’s a privilege to teach such enthusiastic students – we have a lot of fun! If you’d like to join us,  just get in touch!

                                                                                                                                                Lynne Quinn – July 2025

P.S. Thankyou Neil at ‘Winterbourne Computer Services’ for helping me create this site!