A PENSIONER is hosting her first exhibition with a display of quilts at the Ryedale Folk Museum.
Self-taught quilter Emily Gardner, 92, has donated 20 quilts to the museum for the Patchwork exhibition. The museum, at Hutton-le-Hole, near Pickering, is also putting other quilts on show for the display.
Mrs Gardner, of North Yorkshire, was born in 1915 and was originally trained as a nurse.
She took up quilting in the 1960s and still designs all of her own patterns, with each quilt being hand stitched.
To mark the free display, visitors are being asked to help with stitching a communal quilt at the museum.
Patchwork runs from next Monday until Sunday, April 22, with museum doors open between 10am and 4.30pm.
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