Debbie - I learnt to sew on a Singer treadle machine in my primary school staff room, my teacher was an accomplished dressmaker, who volunteered to come in once a week, we made aprons.  I then went on to do Needlework and Dress at ‘O’ Level and was given my first sewing machine at the age of 18.

Over twenty years later I stumbled upon a very small patchwork shop in Petersfield run by Heock, a Korean lady, and for six months I had one to one tuition in her shop and progressed from a cushion to cot quilt to full size double bed quilt which I got Long Arm quilted.

By chance one Sunday when I had been teaching swimming at Kings International College in Frimley I stumbled across an exhibition by Heather Quilters at that time chaired by Julia Gahagan she had established a range of quilting workshops and classes at Yateley School which I attended for over a year together with a class run by Christine Thomas in Camberley.