This touring exhibition will be visiting Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The exhibition’s first stop is at the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair, ICC Sydney Darling Harbour, Australia, June 26 – 29, 2025.
Update September 2025:
The next stop of the tour takes place at the Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, Victoria, Australia. September 3 to 6, 2025
Update October 2025:
The next stop on the tour will be at the Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre, Merivale St, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. October 15 to 18, 2025
Lancashire Courting Cake is my latest work all about my love of food. The hand embroidery centres around a delicious strawberry cake recipe and a nostalgic Lancashire tradition started in the early 1920’s.
Lancashire Courting Cake
Lancashire Courting Cake
This cake is a romantic expression of love dating back to the summers of the 1920s. Its backstory is rooted in the north of England and centred around young love, warm summers and an abundance of ripe red strawberries.
Hand embroidery detail
As part of a courtship, women would make the cake for their betrothed or for a man they had a crush on as a gesture of love, and also to show off her baking skills.
Prior to their wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton tasted one on their visit to Lancashire in 2011.
This piece of embroidery is part of the One Red Thread 2025 ‘Love is RED’ exhibition in Australia curated by Textile Fest. It’s first stop touring Australia will be at the Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair, ICC Sydney Darling Harbour, Australia, June 26 – 29, 2025.
Update
My embroidery is on the next stop touring Australia. The exhibition will be on show at the Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, Victoria, Australia, September 3 to 6, 2025.
