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.
Videos
Patterns
Posts
04 June 2022
New Videos Every Friday A Wander Around Oliven a Quilt [...]
Subscriber Giveaway for June 2022 – Fabric Bundle from the Creative Quilting Fat Quarter Club
This month's giveaway is a stunning fabric bundle. You will receive six coordinating Fat Quarters from the latest fabric ranges at Creative Quilting. This bundle is from one of the recent Fat Quarters mailings run by Creative Quilting. The Fat Quarters are sent out every other month and are taken from ranges on the shelves so is always unique to Creative Quilting. What an exciting way of increasing your fabric selection. They have 4 different fabric clubs. To enter the competition just send an email entitled FAT QUARTERto justhandsontvcomp@gmail.com The competition closes 30th June 2022
20 May 2022
New Videos Every Friday Tilting Squares Patchwork with Valerie Nesbitt [...]