Linda Seward - writer, quilter and naturalist
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  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Fungi 1
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  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Early Spring Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Weeds
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Late Spring Flowers
  • Nature For Absolute Beginners: Birds
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  • 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

Judging experience

2018
Chair of Judges for Fine Art Quilt Masters at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK

2010-2012
Judge Selector and Co-ordinator for Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK

2020, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK

2008   
"Tradition bis Moderne", German Patchwork Gilde, Einbeck, Germany

2007   
Royal Dublin Society National Crafts Competition, Dublin, Ireland

2007   
Thameside Quilters “Quilts and Roses” Exhibition, Shepperton, UK

2007   
UK selector for EQA A4 Challenge, “My Country”, Scarborough, UK

2006   
UK selector for EQA Suitcase Collection, “Hot and Cold”, Hove, UK

2002   
The Quilters' Guild 8th National Juried Exhibition, “Transforming Tradition,”
Dean Clough, Halifax, UK

1997   
XIIIth National Patchwork Championships, Ascot, UK

1995   
UK selector for “88 Leaders in the Quilt World Today,” for Nihon Vogue,  Japan

1992   
VIIIth National Patchwork Championships, Hatfield, UK
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Other relevant experience

2018
Curator for Quilters' Guild's WWI exhibition at the Spring Knitting & Stitching show, Olympia, London.

2015, 2016, 2017
Curator for Quilters' Guild's exhibitions at the Spring Knitting & Stitching shows, Olympia, London.

2013
Curator for "A Living Tradition" exhibition by the Quilters' Guild Traditional Quilt Group at the Spring Knitting & Stitching show, Olympia, London.

2012, 2010, 2008
Curator for London Quilters' exhibitions at Swiss Cottage Library.

2009–2012      
QGBI Judging Committee

2003–2009      
Editorial Board of The Quilter

Member of:
1984—present
The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles

1984—present   
The London Quilters
Chairman: 1992–1995 and 2008–2011

2006—present
Contemporary Quilt



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