Karen was born and brought up in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK where she learned to sew and knit with her grandmother. It was several years later, after turning her back on her formal education and teaching career, that she came back to her crafting roots.
Karen always had a passion for textiles, pattern and colour and after a brief silkscreen printing course in 2011, she set about teaching herself more about this technique in order to design her own fabric. She incorporated this into her quilting, where she has a particular love for mindful hand piecing and hand quilting.
Karen loves to teach printing and quilting in workshops around the UK and overseas and is a regular Faculty member at Quiltcon.
Karen is the author of two books Screen Printing at Home and Wabi Sabi Sewing.
She is one third of the UK based The Thread House with fellow quilt designers Jo Avery and Lynne Goldsworthy, incorporating idyllic rural retreats and an online learning Academy.
Find her patterns, thread collections, notions and more https://www.karenlewistextiles.com/
Follow Karen on Instagram at: @karenlewistextiles
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