Event Description
The UK’s No. 1 patchwork and quilting event, featuring:
- An open competitive quilt show with entries invited from all abilities
- Feature quilt displays from well-known quilters and textile artists
- A variety of exhibitors selling patchwork & quilting supplies for all your needs
- Workshops available on a first come, first served basis at the show
- Demonstrators on hand to show you their techniques and to give help and advice
- Excellent facilities, including restaurant, disabled access & free parking
Thursday 15 – Sunday 18 May 2025
Thursday – Saturday: 10am – 4.30pm
Sunday: 9.30am – 3.30pm
Advance tickets
Adult: £10
Senior Citizen (65+) / Registered Disabled: £9
Child (under 16): Free
Advance tickets available until the Wednesday before the show
On the door prices
Adult: £13
Senior Citizen (65+) / Registered Disabled: £12
Child (under 16): Free
Local quilting group
In the spirit of “reduce, reuse, recycle”, Malvern Quilters have made a traditional crazy quilt, a technique popular in the nineteenth century.
The pieced top is made from scraps of silks and velvets that would have been thrown away, the wadding (the warm part of the quilt that goes between the pieced top and the backing) is a wool blanket that cost £5 from a charity shop in Malvern, and the backing is a cotton sheet that has been tie-dyed with dye that had been in a group member’s cupboard for many years. The sashing – the rectangular strips between the blocks – came from needlecord offcuts from making clothing many years previously.
The only items bought, therefore, were the blanket and the thread to embroider the quilt blocks and tie the quilt in a traditional technique.
Members pieced a block and embroidered it with traditional stitching, and the quilt was then assembled and tied by the group.
This traditional crazy quilt will be exhibited at Quilts UK Malvern at the Three Counties Showground from 15 – 18 May 2025.
Malvern Quilters are believed to be one of the UK’s oldest patchwork and quilting groups, having been formed in 1979. The group meets at Malvern Vale Community Centre and new members of all abilities are welcome.
