Arnolds attic YouTube Archives

23rd December 202517th January 2026

Seasons Greetings for 2025

Warmest Seasons Greetings!

Thank you so much for your support this year and your enthusiasm shown for fellow textile artists on my YouTube channel – every like, comment and share makes such a difference.

Wishing you a peaceful festive season and a bright, creative New Year!

Darning Workshops for 2026

Would you like to join me in a Darning Workshop in 2026?

I’ve had quite a few enquiries about hand stitching workshops so I’m currently making plans for some in 2026.

If you’d like more information, email me at me@catherinehill.art and I’ll keep you updated when I have more to share.

Darning Sampler 2 - Cloth — Darning Sampler 2 – Cloth

‘A Way with Words’ Artist Talk

I’ve opened up my booking diary for 2027 and 2028 for talks and have a few dates available for 2026. I’m based in Crewe and have family in Hertfordshire so I’m happy to travel from either location.

The PowerPoint talk is called ‘A Way with Words’ and shares an insight into how I design and create my hand stitched text based work. I prefer to use your group’s projector if available, but I’m happy to bring my own. I also bring along some original hand stitched pieces for you to see up close, plus a selection of goodies for sale.

If you’d like more information, email me at me@catherinehill.art.

Greeting Cards and Giclée Fine Art Prints

Thank you for all your purchases this year and as an update, Giclée Fine Art Prints of Summer 2022 Part 1 & 2 are now available to order on my online shop https://www.catherinehill.art .

All prints are printed to order, unmounted and include a signed and embossed Certificate of Authenticity.

More prints are planned for the coming year.

The Yorkshire Gallery

Thank you to owner Paul and all the customers at The Yorkshire Gallery for your support in 2025.

A new Christmas delivery of greeting cards and Giclée Fine Art Prints arrived at The Yorkshire Gallery, Unit 26, The Piece Hall, Halifax HX1 1RE this December.

Each print has always come with a signed and embossed Certificate of Authenticity. This new batch of prints features an updated certificate that also includes a paragraph or two with a story about the print.

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Amy Pabst – Meet the Artist

Author and quilter Amy Pabst grew up in rural West Virginia, where there’s a strong heritage of quilting. Her exhibition ‘Micropiecing: Quarter Million’ presents a series of 27 miniature quilts that focuses on the traditional pineapple block on a very small scale.

Amy Pabst: https://www.instagram.com/amymakesquilt

Foundation pieced pineapple quilt by Amy Pabst - Meet the Artist — Foundation pieced pineapple quilt by Amy Pabst – Meet the Artist

All blocks are less than 2.5cm, and each piece is less than 3mm wide. Each quilt has thousands of pieces, and the series was considered complete when the total number of pieces reached 250,000. The design sources for Amy’s quilts include antique and contemporary quilts, as well as original designs.

Variation on pineapple foundation patchwork

Amy Pabst

Amy is a West Virginia native, discovered quilting in 2011 after finding a book at her local library. Since then, she’s created countless quilts and become a prominent figure in the quilting community. Amy is a teacher, speaker, and judge for the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges, and she actively participates in local and international guilds. Her first book, Log Cabin: The 100,000 Pieces Project, was published in 2020 by Quiltmania.

Currently, Amy is a full-time fibers student at Marshall University, with minors in creative writing and women’s studies.

Filmed at the Festival of Quilts 2024.

For a more inspiration, please browse the ‘Meet the Artist’ collection on my YouTube Channel.

L’Merchie Frazier – Meet the Artist

L’Merchie Frazier is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who explores themes of Black identity in the Americas and beyond. Black and indigenous people have a shared history of over 500 years in unwritten, unrecognised and unacknowledged narratives about the spaces they occupy, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Join L’Merchie as she shares the stories behind her work.

L’Merchie Frazier: https://lmerchiefrazier.org/

Story Quilt by L'Merchie Frazier — Story Quilt by L’Merchie Frazier

“The journey to establishing selfhood and importance that is manifest in today’s “call to action” is a trek of reclaiming the right to self-possession and ownership with elevated voice, story and space. Importantly, the direct action to embrace the right to exist, claim one’s own self-worth, beauty and love is a marked effort that fuels the move from insignificance to significance, to matter.”

This exhibition celebrates the Decade of African Descended People declared by the United Nations, 2015 to 2025. The LookBook quilts, The Quilted Chronicles series, participates in the restorative aesthetic to promote dialogue via an explorative historical lens, to reclaim the lives and legacies of Black and Brown people, children and their communities across centuries of memory, places and activism.

L’Merchie’s quilts select moments to confront the impact of slavery and systemic racism.

The inspiration to create these quilts is supported by archived threads of petitions, speeches, organisations, lawsuits, writings, media, witnessed violence and protests. The experience is documented from the kidnapping of Africans and their arrivals in 16th century, to the American Revolution, through the Civil War and the 13th Amendment in 1865, through the end of American Reconstruction, in a continuum to the 21st Century.

Story Quilt by L'Merchie — Story Quilt by L’Merchie

Filmed at the Festival of Quilts 2023.