Ditzy Quilts is a one woman handmade store specialising in gifts, quilts and home décor items. Everything in my shop is made by me in my home studio where I enjoy playing with various fabrics and yarns to create something special whilst singing along to whatever music has taken my fancy that day!

One of my favourite things about running a business is sourcing my materials, as much of my inspiration and design work only happens when I have the fabric or yarn in front of me. As well as scouring the internet for new fabric lines, I also enjoy shopping at local stores where I can see the fabric in person, touch it and really see the true colour and beauty within.

My favourite place to buy supplies is the annual Festival of Quilts which takes place during August in Birmingham (UK). I spent hours looking through all the individual booths, as well as thoroughly enjoying the quilts and artwork of many other artisans that are on display - all of which are very beautiful and inspiring.

I am currently working on expanding my "ready-made" items for my Etsy shop, though I am often working on private commissions along side. Most of these are for baby quilts which I love making as you can find some really great fabric that is quirky and fun. In the future I hope the be able to create some more artistic pieces for display as well as keeping up with my functional lines of home décor. Art quilts appeal to me as they allow the use of different techniques and more fabric manipulation, and result in something totally unique.

As well as quilting, I also enjoy working with yarn. I love wearing knitwear in the colder months, but often struggle to find things that appeal to me on the high street. This is why I have started developing a hippy and funky line of scarves with yarns that are colourful and chunky. This is currently a small line in my business as I only tend to knit in the winter months, but is something I would also like to expand on in the future.

Thank you for taking an interest in my shop, I hope you enjoy looking at my work as much as I enjoy creating it.

Jenny


"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."

~Henry David Thoreau 1815