About the journal
Updated 22nd April 2026Quilt Europe Journal is an independent, reader-first magazine about the craft of patchwork and quilting as it is practised across Europe. We exist to gather the threads — techniques, events, regional traditions and the makers behind them — and set them down clearly, in one place.
We are a small, self-funded team of makers and writers, with no committee to answer to and no membership to sell. What follows is the plain version: what we publish, the principles we hold to, why the journal looks across the whole of Europe, and how to reach us.
We are an editorial publication, not a membership body. Quilt Europe Journal is not an association, guild, federation or umbrella body, and is not affiliated with, nor a representative or successor of, any quilting organisation. Any associations we list or describe are referenced independently, for readers’ convenience only.
What we do
We publish practical guides to the craft, a running guide to the shows and festivals worth travelling for, a neutral directory of Europe’s national quilting communities, and a gallery of maker features and stories from the archive. The writing is meant to be useful at the cutting table and honest about what we do and do not know.
How we work
Three principles guide the journal. First, reader-first: we write for makers, not for advertisers or institutions. Second, plain and honest: where a date is provisional or a fact uncertain, we say so rather than guess. Third, independent: we are self-funded, we accept no obligation to any organisation, and we are transparent about being an outside observer of the communities we cover, never a spokesperson for them.
How that independence is paid for matters, so we are plain about it. The journal is reader-supported: we carry no advertising, run no sponsored features, and take no commission on the guilds, events or shops we point you towards. Nothing on the site is paid for by the people or organisations we write about, and a link is never a transaction. That funding model is a deliberate choice — it is what lets us describe a guild, recommend a festival, or leave one out, on editorial grounds alone, without a sponsor’s interests sitting quietly in the room.
Why “Europe”?
Because patchwork and quilting in Europe are gloriously plural — a Welsh wholecloth, a Hungarian indigo quilt and a contemporary Nordic art piece share a craft but not a history. Few English-language publications try to hold that whole picture together. That gap is the reason this journal exists: not to flatten the differences, but to set them side by side where makers anywhere can learn from all of them.
Not to flatten the differences, but to set them side by side where makers anywhere can learn from all of them.
Get in touch
We welcome story ideas, corrections and maker profiles from across the continent. You will find editorial contact details on our legal notice page, and our approach to data and privacy on the privacy page.