Linda Seward - writer, quilter and naturalist
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  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Fungi 1
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  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Lichens
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Early Spring Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Weeds
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Late Spring Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Birds
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Early Summer Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Butterflies
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners:Late Summer Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Bees and Hoverflies
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Prickly & Autumnal Plants
  • Hairstreak article: Silver-studded blue butterflies
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Spiders and Flies
  • Fantastic Fungi photos
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Fungi in my Garden
  • Nature photos: signs of spring
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners : Weird and Wonderful Fungi
  • Looking for Lichens in the Chilterns
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners : Wasps, Galls & Wasp Mimics

2013 to 2015

Orange Leaves

2013            22 x 19" / 56 x 48cm

Materials and Techniques: 
cotton fabrics, pleated organza; fabrics collaged onto cotton wadding, raw-edge appliqué, hand-quilted, monoprinted leaves, leaves discharged and coloured with marking pens, embellished with metallic foils, beads and embroidery

This wall hanging was made as I wrote The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting, and I tried out many of the different surface design techniques on this piece.

Collection of Glenys Price


Walk in the Woods, April 5, 2013

2013       31 x 45"/80 x 114cm

Materials and Techniques: 
cotton fabric backing, tissue paper, fabric glue, textile paint, sheer organza, forest materials. Painted, free-motion machine quilted, heat distressed, hung from branch with rope

Inspired by forest materials collected during a walk in misty Oxfordshire woods. A backdrop of trees was painted on handmade paper “fabric”, machine quilted, then layered with organza stitched in squares. Feathers, wood, pine cones, etc. all collected on one walk were inserted in the squares. Organza was heat distressed with a heat gun and a soldering iron to expose the inclusions and parts of the backdrop. Edges were heat soldered.

 For sale £300


Beaded Shibori Circle

2013            15 x 16"/38 x 40cm

Materials and Techniques: cotton fabric, indigo dyed shibori, embellished with beads, hand embroidered with French knots and straight stitch

Started in a workshop with Janice Gunner, in which I learned how to do indigo dyed shibori. Beaded in a starburst pattern. The embroidery floss was hand dyed in the same indigo bath as the shibori.

For sale £150


Mountains & Meadows

2014       18 x 25” / 46 x 64cm

Materials and Techniques:
cotton fabrics, hand-dyed and monoprinted, collage, tissue paper, fabric glue, textile paint, sheer organza, forest materials. Monoprinted and hand-dyed fabrics, hand collaged, hand quilted, embellished with beads, free-motion machine quilted.

I took a workshop with Jae Maries and learned how to dye and monoprint fabric. One of my monoprints resembled mountains and a meadow. I ripped the fabrics into sections and assembled them on wadding and a back, then hand quilted and beaded the fabrics together before machine quilting the background. It is stretched over  foam board.


For sale £250

Cindy's Quilt

2014        81 x 66 cm / 32 x 26 inches

Materials and Techniques: cotton fabrics (commercial and photo-transfer prints), machine pieced, hand appliqued, machine quilted, cotton wadding, machine-quilted, hand embroidered

Made for my friend Cynthia Pikul who was suffering from ovarian cancer. I asked her for her favourite colours and she said “orange, blue, green and gray”, so I made a quilt in those colours (substituting photos and purple for the gray). I gave it to her the last time I saw her, which was in January 2014, and did lots of the embroidery while I was sitting with her in the hospital. She kept it hanging in her room. I wanted to remind the nurses and doctors that she was a vital, beautiful human being. Her family returned it to me when she died on July 23rd, 2014. One of our mutual friends, Anthony Marchese, was killed by a car on October 5th, 2015. His image is also on the quilt. He had been my friend for 55 years. I think of them every day.

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3 Snakes

2015        25 x 41cm/10 x 16 inches

Materials and Techniques: cotton and silk fabrics (hand-dyed and commercial), hand pieced, hand appliqued, hand embroidered, embellished with buttons and ebony//ivory snakes purchased in Africa

I made this in a Janet Bolton workshop, using her lovely technique of hemming and freehand cutting.

For sale £200

Wedding Bouquet

2015        107 cm square/42 inches square

Materials and Techniques: cotton and silk fabrics, machine pieced, hand and machine appliqued,  ruched, folded, hand and machine embroidered, embellished with beads

I took a workshop with Stuart Hillard at The Quilters' Guild of The British Isles AGM in Harrogate and started this quilt for my niece Ashley's wedding gift. It's called Wedding Bouquet. I presented it to the bride and groom at the rehearsal dinner on the night before their wedding in Los Angeles. I was so pleased when they hung it over the bridal table at the wedding.

Collection of Ashley and Casey Boyd

Where There's Smoke............

2015          80 x 45cm/31 x 18 inches

Materials and Techniques: cotton fabrics (monoprinted, hand-dyed and commercial), cheesecloth, crazy curve patchwork, cotton wadding, machine-quilted, embellished with beads

The piece was inspired by a fabric that reminds me of fire, monoprinted in a workshop I took with Jae Maries. I had some other fiery and smokey looking fabrics, so decided to feature those as well. The pieces are stitched together with a technique called crazy curve patchwork, with inserts of dyed orange and yellow fabrics in the seams (to look like flames). Fiery shapes (copied from real fires)  are machine quilted. The work is embellished with beads and crystals.

For sale £200
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