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Support Buy British Day A week today!

By lisawato / September 26, 2014 / Comments Off

From 2nd to 4th October it’s BoB14. Best of Britannia is; a pop up department store in the atmospheric Farmiloe Building in Clerkenwell selling and celebrating all the best British Made goods. My distinctive Harris tweed and sumptuous velvet quilts which are 100% British made will be at my Quilts by Lisa Watson stand at BoB14, situated on the ground floor. http://www.bestofbritannia.com/exhibitors/

I do hope to see you at BoB14 which includes celebrating Buy British Day, a week today!

Gentleman model needed Any ideas? Any volunteers?

By lisawato / September 22, 2014 / Comments Off

Luckily I know a few people who have fab homes. I have coveted this pillar box red egg chair in my friend’s home since it was brought earlier in the year. Lisa & Bob v.kindly let me take some pics of our Shackleton quilt drapped in all it’s rugged warmth in their home today. So, we have the fabulous Shackleton quilt. Check. We have the ideal interior shot. Check. Now we need the ideal gentleman model for the shot. Any ideas? Any volunteers?

Tempted? You can buy one of our special limited edition Shackleton Gentleman Explorer quilts here: http://thegreatbritishbanjocompany.com/the-shackleton-gentleman-explorer-quilt-handmade-in-england-2222-p.asp

Quilts by Lisa Watson features…

By lisawato / September 9, 2014 / Comments Off

What a pleasant surprise to have Quilts by Lisa Watson featured in not one but two blog posts last week…

Thanks to JustCHARMING for including my sunshine yellow velvet quilt in an etsy autumn gift guide; https://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTIzMjgzNnwyNzI0MTg0ODU3/autumn-gift-guide

and thank you to Little Ram Studio for including my hot pink and bright orange tweed quilt in their

Fabulous Folksy Friday Finds! under ‘Q’ is for…

Q is for Quilting – It’s official I just love this quilt! Made up from Harris Tweed and sumptuous deep velvet it’s just the sort of blanket to snuggle under as the evenings get chillier. Also love that Lisa uses her sweet little Westie dog to help model her quilts! Check out these quilts and Rosa the dog back in Lisa’s Folksy shop: https://folksy.com/shops/stitchpics

http://littleramstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/indian-summer-perhaps.html?spref=tw

All the fun of the fair last weekend at Chatsworth

By lisawato / September 2, 2014 / Comments Off

Thoroughly enjoyed myself last weekend at Chatsworth Country Fair. Inbetween talking quilts, we were throughly entertained by all the fabulous array of dogs passing by. Here are a small selection of the stalls close by and including Quilts by Lisa Watson

I have just two unique cream cotton one of a kind quilts available for you. The fabric is Ian Mankin, who are a established Made in Britain utilitarian brand, making quality furnishing fabrics. The cream fabrics are slightly different on either side and both have interesting textural weaves to them.

Candy cane Harris Tweed patterns

Concentric modern quilted quilt

These lighter weight reversible quilted shirt quilts are stitched with British shirt fabrics of the finest quality.

Find more at; http://www.chatsworthcountryfair.co.uk/

The Shackleton…quilt

By lisawato / August 20, 2014 / Comments Off

I am loving the earthy colours and combination of textures in our new Shackleton quilt. Cannot get enough of how strokable the corduroy is and it’s just right for our gentleman’s quilt.

To recap Simon MIddleton from the Great British Banjo company asked me to create a Shackleton quilt inspired by the great man.

https://www.quiltsbylisawatson.co.uk/manly-shackleton-quilt-being-stitched-now/

The top of the quilt is Harris Tweed made from 100% wool. This is hardwearing fabric woven in Harris on the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, so the flecks of colour and weaves of the tweed fit in perfectly with the rugged landscape of Antartica where Shackleton and his men survived their epic adventure. The back of the Shackleton includes durable corduroy in just the right gents trousers shade encircled with utilitarian fabrics from Ian Mankin.

The Shackleton is 100% British made with fabrics carefully chosen to reflect the age and times that Shackleton encountered and inspired.

To buy your own individual Shackleton quilt (all the Harris Tweed tops are unique) follow the link http://www.thegreatbritishbanjocompany.com/the-shackleton-gentleman-explorer-quilt-handmade-in-england-2222-p.asp

I’m going to be on the telly

By lisawato / August 18, 2014 / Comments Off

Much excitement at quilt towers since I have been contacted by Wildside productions, http://www.wildsideproductions.co.uk/ (who create documentaries for the Spanish Ministery of Education) to participate in a programme they are filming on start up businesses. That’s English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5wHwtZQ6hU is a language teaching programme, similar in content to our educational OU programmes and will be aired on Spains TV2 http://www.rtve.es/television/la-2-directo/. Filming is on 18th September and I cannot wait!

My granny who is now 95 loves Spain and in true ex pat Brit style, along with my grandfather spent the winter months of their retirement in a finca near Alicante. So if I’m lost in translation, I shall ask my Granny, (or my kids) to translate for me when the show is aired.

Incidentally, Wildside Productions found me via a guest blog post I wrote for Blue Orchid http://www.blueorchid.co.uk/2014/07/a-quilt-will-warm-your-body-and-comfort-your-soul/ which goes to show blogging is good for you and your business.

Manly Shackleton quilt being stitched NOW

By lisawato / July 22, 2014 / Comments Off

OOhhh the excitment, I am collaborating with The Great British Banjo Company (who make a Shackleton banjo) and am stitching some Shackleton Quilts.

You might recall my previous post;

https://www.quiltsbylisawatson.co.uk/manly-or-girly-whats-a-quilt-to-be/

Well, this initial discussion has led to a new Harris Tweed quilt being stitched inspired by Ernest Shackleton the infamous antartic explorer. The aim is to create a hardwearing 100% British fabulously manly quilt, that is made to last which will just grow better with age, as even more of your adventures are interwoven into its fabrics.

The link between Shackleton and banjos is; The great British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton saved his expedition’s banjo from his ship Endurance as she sank into Antarctic ice, saying: “We must have that banjo. It’s vital mental medicine.”

He went on to bring all of his men home in an epic adventure of heroism and extraordinary leadership. In the hundred years since then Shackleton’s leadership, adaptability and strategic thinking have become legendary.

Which is why adventurers of every kind ask themselves, when the going gets tough: “What would Shackleton do?”.

Why make a quilt of course! Following lots of discussion the final fabrics have been chosen and next week we start stitching. Huzzah. Look forward to hard wearing corduroy matched with utilitarian fabrics from totally British Ian Mankin; http://www.ianmankin.co.uk/, coupled with yes it’s my fav; Harris Tweed

http://thegreatbritishbanjoblog.com/

Click the link to buy a quilt

By lisawato / July 16, 2014 / Comments Off

https://folksy.com/shops/stitchpics

To buy our distinctive gentleman explorer quilt The Shackleton please visit click http://theshackleton.bigcartel.com/product/the-shackleton-gentleman-explorer-quilt

I’m featured on the Blue Orchid blog

By lisawato / July 14, 2014 / Comments Off

Since starting my quilt business I have been advised by the fabulous Stuart Ridgeway at Blue Orchid (UK business start up and growth agency). Earlier this month I was asked to contribute to the Blue Orchid blog writing about my quilts; http://www.blueorchid.co.uk/2014/07/a-quilt-will-warm-your-body-and-comfort-your-soul/