Socks needing some love? 'Darning Socks' by Hikaru Noguchi is published! A collection of ideas and full step-by-step photo instructions for applying visible mending to socks, making them stay in use and keeping them out of landfill. Make your holes happy and grab your copy from us! #darningsocks

🎧 Textile Artist Kirstie Macleod talks about 'The Red Dress' on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social stitching stories, voices & empowerment.💃
🧵 Listen here: tinyurl.com/RDP-podcast
📖 Published @quickthornbooks.bsky.social
#RedDressProject #TextileArt #CraftActivism #textilestories #storiesinstitch #women

🧵 When Rachael Matthews invites you to a shop launch, expect a needle & thread (yes, we pricked our finger).
Artist, author, and public knitting pioneer – meet the mind behind Rag Manifesto:
👉 quickthornbooks.com/blogs/news/m...
#RagManifesto #PublicKnitting #QuickthornBooks #blog

We’re thrilled to unveil our new website—a true celebration of the creativity at our heart. Please do have a 'canoe' around! The new site features imagery from our talented book contributors: Danai Tsouloufa, Lynn Setterington, Rachael Matthews & Hikaru Noguchi. www.quickthornbooks.com

❓This recent article in the Independent is the first of six by Caroline Garland - & asks the question:
'Can nature now teach fashion a new way to be?'
📣The first of the 'Fashion Reimagined' series includes an interview with Quickthorn author Kate Fletcher her 'Almanac'

tinyurl.com/indyfashreim...

📻 Such a lovely interview with Kirstie Macleod - author of the Red Dress - conversations in stitch: buff.ly/L4Gs1xT
Take a listen if you can.
💃 Her new book detailing the project journey is available in two formats from our website: www.quickthornbooks.com
#theredressproject

Packed & sent! Hundreds of 'The Red Dress-Conversations in Stitch' are on their way from Quickthorn HQ. (Kirstie & Katy elves featured)

They’ll be landing with you very soon! We’d love to hear your thoughts—feel free to message us with your reviews!

Order yours at quickthornbooks.com #thereddress

Prof Kate Fletcher, author of ‘Fletcher’s Almanac’—fresh from the Creative Hub at Hay Festival, where she answered questions on fashion systems & the natural world from Andy Fryers - Head of Sustainability at Hay.

Catch a glimpse here & grab your pocket copy via our website: www.quickthornbooks.com

🎙️ Hear 'The Red Dress' story on Cotswolds Radio via @mixcloud.bsky.social
Kirstie Macleod shares the project’s journey (21:52), followed by Quickthorn’s Katy Bevan on founding the press + publishing this new book (37:58).
🎧 tinyurl.com/Red-Dress-Ra...
#TheRedDress #QuickthornBooks #IndiePublishing

We are supporting #dyingmatters awareness week. “Swimming saved me.”
Ruth Fitzmaurice's story is just one from 'When Words are Not Enough'—a powerful collection on grief, healing & the creative ways we can survive.
Reviewed by @theguardian.com this book is for all of us.
#Grief #Wellbeing

💥📣 We are BEYOND excited that one of Quickthorn's books is heading to the 2025 @hayfestival.bsky.social

👀 Keep an eye on our posts for all the details!

🛒Bookings can be made via the festival website from Friday 14th March. Join us there and discover a world of different voices....
#katefletcher

Wisdom from Kate Fletcher in #FletchersAlmanac as we step into a new season. A time of hope, yet our senses may also feel heightened to nature’s predators. She reminds us that we are deeply connected to the whole. Perhaps, in these troubled times, a new sense of solidarity is beginning to emerge?

"It is impossible to capture all the outcomes of these shared stitch projects in the artworks alone. Textiles are often viewed in terms of technical skills, but these projects are about so much more - demonstrating that stitching together is not only a global communication tool, wellbeing device..."

Re-sharing here a lovely post from Clare, owner of Made in Stroud Shop.
"We are very pleased to have two new books by @quickthornbooks “Fletchers Almanac” and “Connecting Threads” they available to buy now in store and online." #quickthornbooks #stroud #instroud #madeinstroud #cotswolds #books

More on the mystery of the 'missing quilts' covered by the BBC yesterday. Please get in touch if you have any photos from the first exhibition in 1996 or let us know if you have any news of quilts themselves: [email protected]. Catch the episode from 1hr20 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Have you seen the missing quilts? In 1996 Lynn Setterington was in an exhibition in Cirencester. Four of Lynn’s works disappeared from the venue and have not been seen since. Nearly 30 years later, we’re hoping to find someone who has photographs and might even know where they ended up