Mary McIntosh - Textile Artist

Location:  Sudbury, Suffolk 

Email: maryelmcintosh@gmail.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 was delighted that my work was selected to be displayed in the Further Education Gallery at the Festival Of Quilts in  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 am now  teaching at creative_stitch and took over from my former tutor Annette Morgan as Principal Tutor in September 2019

I have become a fully qualified teacher with a PGCE qualification awarded in 2014 

https://sefwi.org.uk/creative_stitch/courses

Groups:

Out of the Fold - an exhibiting group based in Bury St Edmunds.  

outofthefoldtextilegroup.blogspot.co.uk

Spotlight Textiles - an new exhibiting group formed in 2021 by Advanced Stitched Textiles students and their tutor (Me)

CQ  - the contemporary group of the Quilters Guild

STARS  Stitch and Textile Art in Suffolk (Formerly the Suffolk West Embroiderers' Guild