About Vendulka
Vendulka Battais is an award winning textile artist, tutor and half of the couple running textile studio OliVen in the heart of Suffolk.
Vendulka started her creative journey making clothes from remnants with her mum in the Czech Republic. She learned simple patchwork when she moved to the UK and was looking for a new hobby. From squares and triangles, Vendulka’s work evolved into quilting, embroidery, and circular patterns inspired by mandalas and dreamcatchers.
It was this growing passion which led her to start her own patchwork and quilting shop with her partner, Olivier, on the Isle of Wight in 2011. It’s called OliVen. In 2015, they moved family and shop to the village of Monks Eleigh in Suffolk.
Vendulka loves to make patchwork quilts, teach patchwork in the shop, travel to teach groups and demonstrate at shows.
Somehow she found the time to publish a wonderful book, Cathedral Windows – New Views, and win the Best in Show Award at Festival of Quilts 2021. This is what the judges had to say about the work: “a wonderful collaboration of design and workmanship. We loved the variety of feathers and their balance of glorious colour. A masterclass in the stitching of an intricate Mandala, together with precise use of the glitter liner medium.”
Signature Technique
Bringing embroidery into quilting
Top Tips
- Glittery and metallic paint on fabric brings a project to life – especially in the dark!
- Create an enhanced 3D effect on Cathedral windows with folded patchwork, padding, and a new colour twist.
- Combine different elements such as machine quilting and hand embroidery. It’s a joy to work on and the result is stunning.
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A Patchwork Weekend in Hampshire, October 2024
Date: 26- 27 October 2024
Location: New Place Hotel, Hampshire
Price: £430 Early Bird Special before 26 April 2024 / £460 after
Spend two days with Sarah Soward and Terry Summerfield of Pauline’s Patchwork creating amazing bargello projects or scrap busting quilts.
Goldwork Weekend in Hampshire, May 2024
Date: 11 – 12 May 2024
Location: New Place Hotel, Shirrell Heath, Hampshire
Price: £430 Early Bird Special before 11 November 2023 / £460 after this
Enjoy a very special weekend of goldwork embroidery with Wendy Mansfeld. You will learn several embroidery techniques, including how to handle metal threads.
Join ECT Travel at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024
Join ECT Travel at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2024