Author: Jane Haworth

Jane Haworth is a quilt artist and teacher known for turning photographs and personal imagery into fabric collage. Capture Your Own Life with Collage Quilting, published by Landauer in 2023, explains that method for beginners as well as experienced quilters. The guide moves from choosing an image and enlarging it to building a pattern, selecting fabrics, cutting shapes, stitching, and finishing the completed work. Twelve projects range across animals, flowers, houses, landscapes, and other familiar subjects, while seven reusable patterns give readers a practical starting point. Haworth’s teaching emphasizes tracing and cutting shapes as the design develops, reducing the need for a large set of numbered pieces. Her own studio practice and workshop experience inform the sequence of exercises and the attention given to displaying finished collages. The book’s full subtitle, Making Unique Quilts and Projects from Photos and Imagery, captures its central aim: helping makers translate personally meaningful pictures into textile compositions.