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Shakespeare Portraits – Shottery St Andrew’s Primary School & Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; March 2020
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & St Margaret’s CE Junior School, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire; March 2020
Textiles Week; St Ethelbert’s Catholic Primary School, Slough; February 2020
‘British Values’; Birchwood Primary School, Dordon, Warwickshire; December 2019
‘Our School Mission’; St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School, Leamington Spa; December 2019
Theseus and the Minotaur; Oxford Grove Primary School, Bolton; November 2019
“The Stone Age” – Oxford Grove Primary School, Bolton; September 2019
“The Lost Words”; High Meadow Infant School, Coleshill, Warks; March 2019
“Medusa”, Oxford Grove Primary School, Bolton, December 2018
“Shakespearean Advent Calendar”, St Gregory’s RC Primary School with Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon; November 2018
“Our School”, Birchwood Primary School, Dordon, Warwickshire; November 2018
’50 Years Old’ – Widney Junior School, Solihull; November 2018
‘Remembrance’ – Our Lady & St Teresa RC Primary School, Cubbington, Warwickshire, Oct 2018
‘Our Class Animals’ – Eastlands Primary School, Rugby; July 2018
‘Local Landmarks’ – Westgate Primary School, Warwick; July 2018
British Values, Wood End Primary School, Warwickshire January 2018
British Values; Dordon Primary School, Warwickshire; November 2017
Our Values, Woodside Primary School, Grendon, Warwickshire; November 2017
‘Consideration’, Budbrooke Primary School, Warwick, June 2017
‘Unique & Together’, Morven Park Primary School, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, May 2017
‘Our School Values’, Marston Green Junior School, June 2017
Piano Panel commission, Water Orton CE Church, Warwickshire; May 2017
‘Our Christian Values’, Higham-on-the-Hill CE Primary School, April 2017
Diversity Week Project, Asquith Primary School, Mansfield, Notts; March 2017
‘Christian Values’ Banner project, St Martins CE Primary School nr Newbury Hampshire, Feb/March 2016 (work in progress, 18 banners in total)
‘Winter’ pictures; Y1 Ridgeway Primary School, Burntwood, Staffs; January 2017
Roman Mosaics, Meriden Primary school, Warwickshire November 2016
‘Remembrance’, Asquith Primary School, Mansfield; November 2016
Our Class Logos (Woodland Animals); Arley Primary School, North Warwickshire; October 2016
School Banner, Our Lady of Peace Catholic Primary School, Slough; September 2016
‘British Values’, Three Peaks Primary Academy, Tamworth, Staffs. July 2016
‘On The Beach’ Festival of Quilts entry , Kingsbury Primary School, Warwickshire Summer 2016
Kandinsky’s Circles, Coton Green Primary School Tamworth, Staffs. June 2016
Modern British Values, Budbrooke Primary School, Warwick, June 2016
The Queen’s 90th Birthday, Marston Green Junior School Solihull, June 2016
‘Collaboration’, Beaconside Primary School, Rubery, May 2016
‘British Values’, Arley Primary School, North Warwickshire, May 2016 (work in progress)
Chadsgrove Special School, Bromsgrove, 20th April 2016
Our School Values, Slinfold CE Primary School, West Sussex, 22nd March 2016
‘Sing Up!’ Piano Panel, Our Lady of Peace Infant School, Slough, March 2016
Roman Mosaic Tiles, Year 4 Meriden CE Primary School, Solihull, 24th November 2015
Our School Values, Sapcote CE Primary School, Leics, 9-11 November 2015
Magna Carta 1215-2015, Marston Green Junior School, 23rd October 2015
“Patchwork Magic”, Kingsbury Primary School’s entry, Third prize, Primary schools class, 2015 Festival of quilts, NEC, Birmingham.
Magna Carta Piano Panel, Shustoke Primary School, Warwickshire, September 2015
“British Values”, Marston Green Junior School, June 2015
“Achieving Together”, Southwark Primary School, Nottingham, June 2015
“Lest We Forget”, Asquith Primary School, Mansfield, June 2015
“Our School”. Budbrooke Primary School, near Warwick, May 2015
“Celebration”, Chadsgrove Special School, Bromsgrove, May 2015
Our Garden (aka British Chickens!), Widney Junior School, Solihull, March 2015
Kandinsky’s Circles, Lostock Hall Primary School, Preston , March 2015
‘Our School’ The Round House Primary Academy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, November 2014
Poppies of Remembrance, Shustoke CE Primary School, North Warwickshire, November 2014
‘Roman Tiles’, Meriden CE Primary School, Nr Coventry, October 2014
‘Arley Past & Present’, Arley Primary School, North Warwickshire, September 2014
‘In our Garden’, International Festival of Quilts Entry 2014, Kingsbury Primary School July 2014
‘Lest We Forget’, Marston Green Junior School, July 2014
‘Our School’, Lady Katherine Leveson CofE Primary School, Temple Balsall, Knowle (Solihull), July 2014
Our School Badge, Arley Primary School, Warwickshire, June 2014
Anti-Bullying Quilt, Portishead Primary School, North Somerset, November 2103
Transport in our Village: Primary Schools category, International Festival of Quilts, NEC August 2013
Crazy Colours – Year 6 project, Marston Green Junior School, June 2013
Oak Class Hanging: Class Trees Project Part 7, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, March 2013
Cherry Class Hanging: Class Trees Project Part 6, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, March 2013
Willow Class Hanging: Class Trees Project part 5, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, February 2013
Chestnut Class Hanging: Class Trees Project part 4, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, February 2013
Fir Class Hanging: Class Trees Project part 3, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, January 2013
WOMBATS (Water Orton Mothers, Babies & Toddlers) Welcome wall-hanging for new vicar, January 2013
‘Our School Values’ wall-hanging, Portishead Primary School, North Somerset, November 2012
Sycamore Class Hanging: Class Trees Project part 2, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, December 2012
‘Our School Values’ hanging (detail), Widney Junior School, Solihull, October 2012
Stan the Dragon – 75th Anniversary Panel; Stanville Primary School, Sheldon, Birmingham, October 2012
Birch Hanging: Class Trees Project part 1, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, October 2012
‘Diamonds’ – International Festival of Quilts 2012 entry, Kingsbury Primary School July 2012
Diamond Jubilee wall-hanging, Marston Green Junior School, June 2012
‘Unity’ Quilt, Widney Junior School, Solihull, 30th March 2012
Cross Wall-hanging, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, March 29th 2012
Wootton Wawen CE Primary School Printed Piano Panel 10th November 2011
Wootton Wawen CE Primary School Banner, 14th November 2011
Henley-in-Arden Schools Cluster Community Conference Quilt (conference 12th July 2011)
‘Fun of the Fair’ – Kingsbury Primary School’s ‘Highly Commended’ entry for 2011 International Festival of Quilts
This ‘community quilt’ was created by the children of Kingsbury Primary School (plus some helpful local residents) to mark the link with their partner school in China. An article telling the story of the quilt’s construction will be published in Patchwork & Quilting magazine later in 2011.
Year 6 Leaver’s Legacy Quilt, Marston Green Junior School, July 2011
This rather partiotically coloured printed quilted panel was created by a group of Year 3 and 4 Gifted and Talented pupils at Marston Green Junior School to celebrate the Royal Wedding of 29th April 2011.
This ‘city-scapes’ quilt won second prize in the NEC Festival of Quilts Primary Schools section 2010 – and won Kingsbury Primary School another sewing machine!
Wootten Wawen wallhanging
This wallhanging, inspired by the amazing Baptistry Window at Coventry Cathedral, was commissioned by the head teacher of Wootten Wawen CE Primary School to hang in her office. An article logging its production was published in British Patchwork & Quilting Magazine in November 2010.
This quilt was created by 90 of Crazy Mary’s Year 5 & 6 pupils in the summer of 2009. This was also exhibited at the NEC Festival of Quilts (2009), where it won first prize in the primary school category. The 3 classes researched Asian textiles, then designed and created lino prints, quilting and embellishing them with beads and sequins.
This quilt was created by Crazy Mary and 90 Year 5 & 6 pupils at Kingsbury Primary School in July 2008. It was exhibited at the International Festival of Quilts at the NEC in August 2009. The 3 classes designed the 4 panels: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water. Each child pieced a crazy patchwork patch to make up a 25x25cm block for one of the panels, embellishing it with stitching, beads, buttons and sequins.
This wallhanging and ‘Joseph’s Coat’ were created with pupils at St. Nicolas Primary Scoool, Nuneaton while I was teaching there, before 2007; the former as part of Craft Club and the latter as part of an Expressive Arts project.
These are just some of my other creations ! Visit my Facebook page to see more – there’s a link on my home page!
Hi Mary,
absolutely stunning work, congrats on your win and well deserved.
Lisa 🙂
Thanks Lisa – I’ve just this minute finished stitching together this year’s Festival of Quilts entry – it’s spread out on my living room floor as I type this! No idea whether we have any chance of winning again , but the kids had fun making it anyway!
Fabulous, and I enjoyed looking at the Widney one every day during my time there. Looking forward to a Budbrooke quilt being added soon!