Community Quilt Project

St Annes House Community Quilt Project - 2025

This project began with offering mending circles to the local community in BS4 and across Bristol. After spending a few years connecting with people at St Anne’s House, I had the idea to create a wall hanging that could live in the building — something made by the community, for the community.

I’ve loved working with everyone involved and wanted to create something that could be shared, loved, and seen for years to come. That’s how the Community Quilt Project was born — and now it hangs proudly in the entrance to St Anne’s House.

A group of children and adults gathered around a large table participating in arts and crafts activities in a well-lit room with large windows.
Children and adults gathered around a large table engaging in arts and crafts activities, with drawing papers, markers, scissors, and decorative items scattered on the table.
Top-down view of a group of people gathering around a table, engaging in arts and crafts activities with various supplies, fabrics, and a pink water bottle.
A person sewing at a table with various supplies, including threads, needles, scissors, and fabric. Others are partially visible in the background.
People engaged in a craft activity at a table with scissors, paper, embroidery hoops, and fabric pieces.
A woman sewing with a floral patterned dress, seated at a table with art and books, focusing on the community quilt project.
Person engaged in sewing at a table, with embroidery thread, scissors, a coffee cup, yarn, and other craft supplies visible.
Embroidery on orange fabric with a semi-circle shape and several human figures jumping over the semi-circle.
People engaging in quilting or textile crafts at a table with fabrics, thread, scissors, embroidery hoop, and quilting books.
Four people standing in front of a white wall, each holding a small, colorful textile art piece.
Women and a girl displaying a colourful quilt with various embroidered and sewn patterns on a table.
People gathered around a table displaying a colourful quilt with various designs, inside a room with bookshelves, artwork on the walls, and hanging sketches.
A group of diverse adults and children gathered around a colourful quilt on a table in a room with orange walls and large windows, engaged in a craft or activity.
A young girl sitting at a table, working on a colourful fabric craft project with embroidered and appliquéd designs, in a room with storage shelves and supplies.
A man and a woman sitting at a table covered with a colourful quilt, engaging in conversation against an orange wall in a cozy room.
Adult woman sewing fabric with colourful quilt designs, seated at a table with young people sewing in the background.
community quilt project
A colorful quilt on a table with various stitched and embroidered designs, including suns, hands, and abstract shapes, surrounded by three people, a young girl with a floral headband, a woman with glasses, and a partially visible person, in a room wi
engaging in a craft activity, working together on an embroidered or sewn project.
Working on the final quilt top
Children and an adult around a table, looking at a colourful quilt with various drawings and patterns, in a room with storage boxes and a countertop.
A colourful quilt with various images and symbols hangs on a white wall above a small table with a potted plant, a framed photograph of a man, and a QR code sign.
Three women hugging at a reception desk in an office or community space, with a colourful quilt hanging on the wall behind them and office supplies visible.
Two women smiling and hugging behind a reception desk at the St. Annes House.
Group of people standing and sitting inside a room with wooden-paneled glass windows, watching something out of frame, with a blue floor and ceiling lights.
A group of people is taking a selfie in a convex security mirror inside a building. The reflection shows multiple individuals smiling and posing, with artwork and posters on the wall behind them.