About Naomi
Naomi began her journey with cross-stitch as a young child and has now been sewing for over 25 years.
In 2017, Naomi started to design for several leading UK patchwork and quilting magazines with a primary focus on hand-piecing. At the same time, Naomi also started an Instagram-based sewing group which uses hand-sewing as a weekly prompt and has a global audience and participant base.
Naomi feels passionately about the power of hand-sewing and self-care, as a creative tool in our toolbox, for making sense of the world around us, for being creative, and for connecting with others around us.
Click here to watch Naomi in The Makers Studio.
Signature Technique
Hand-piecing, colour, and quilt-as-you-go
Top Tips
- Use a purple tip needle when joining your quilt-as-you go pieces – your machine will be much happier!
- Play and have fun! Sewing is there to be enjoyed, not something to be pressured or feel constricted by. If you want to start a new project, listen to what your heart is saying (however corny that sounds!)
- Add all the colour. Remember your freedom with colour and patterns when you were a child and embrace that fun element of adding in the fabrics, designs and colours that you love.
Patterns
Posts
How it all started
In the beginning - Summer 2008: Valerie Nesbit (from Creative Quilting, Hampton Court, Surrey) dreams of creating a TV based web site devoted to Textile Arts. Jennie Rayment, nips and tucks, prattles and teaches internationally in her own little calico heaven August 2008: Seeds planted
Valerie finds a film crew and goes to Festival of Quilts, Quilt Museum in York and records workshops with several well known quilters.
Make Do & Mend
Broiderie Perse is a very posh way of using fabric to hide a stain! - lovely job though Jennie and no-one would ever know if you hadn't shared the secret.