Quilt (top) finished and taking Forest of Zine on tour

It took several months longer than I expected, but the quilt (top) is finished! I will get round to finishing the actual quilt at some point, but the quilt top is the main part and it gives me time to work out how I’m actually going to quilt it and let me work out how to create mossy margins around the edge. I can’t tell you how pleased I am with the quilt, I especially love the embroidered patch blocks contributed by 23 people 😀 It’s also difficult to explain what the quilt means to me, especially those contributions. I hope to be able to find the appropriate words when I make a zine about it.

The next step is to take the quilt on a cycle tour (the first of many?). This time from Aberystwyth to the Forest of Dean for International Zine Library Day on Sunday 21st July! I’ve planned my route, booked my campsites and now I need to contact some places along the way that I’d like to take the Forest of Zine to visit.

Forest of Zine

Forest of Zine is my most recent project, and it’s substantial! Forest of Zine is a bicycle-based mobile/pop-up zine library. It launched in July 2023 in Ashton Hill Plantation, near Bristol (my favourite local wood) and enables people to engage with the collection in nature and encourages them to make their own zines informed by nature and/or their own experiences.

More details can be found on the Forest of Zine page of this website!