My favourite piece of the entire show   The Festival of Quilts 2025 was wonderful. It was so very good to catch up with friends and students. I was there for 2 days, and it was almost enough.  The quilt displays were fabulous and there were some amazing and thought provoking quilts. From traditional to modern and everything in between. Whilst I can appreciate the skill involved in all the clever machine stitched quilts and the amazing colourful designs and piecing  . .  I am always drawn to the less 'perfect' hand pieced and stitched work.  I am fully aware this isn't a popular opinion, but it is my own.   I taught basic quilting techniques as part of my 4 year Experimental Textiles course. This involved me researching the history of quilting before I could teach it. I was fascinated by the story telling of memory quilts, the beautiful quilts made by soldiers from scraps of soldiers woolen uniforms in the first world war, and the Changi Quilt . Above...