Quilt Association News Archive

26 December 2009

Research Associate Dr Philip Sykas, from Manchester Metropolitan University, ran a two day workshop at The Minerva Arts Centre in early October 2009.

26 December 2009

The Quilt Association has received a grant of £5000 from the lottery-fund grants programme ‘Awards for All Wales’ for a research project focussing on quilts from its Heritage Quilt collection.

26 December 2009

The Quilt Association’s successful project is called “Warming Minerva”. The organisation plans to extend the central heating system in the Centre, which currently only serves Gallery 1 at the front of the building, into Gallery 2.

26 December 2009

Volunteers welcomed textile conservator Alison Lister to The Quilt Association’s base at The Minerva Art Centre in Llanidloes in October 2008.

23 December 2009

Four of the Association’s trustees attended the BQSG weekend in late October 2009.