Born in Yorkshire, England, Philippa discovered a love of sewing and knitting as a child. A second-hand sewing machine for her thirteenth birthday enabled her to progress from making dolls clothes to full sized garments for herself, family and friends.

A chance meeting, in Saudi Arabia, in 1996 led to a short quilting course, after which clothing became less interesting and quilting an all-consuming passion. 

Philippa combines her technical expertise and designer training to produce intricately pieced, appliqué or whole-cloth quilts which are heavily machine quilted often utilising trapunto. For over 20 years Philippa used a domestic Bernina sewing machine for all her work.

Philippa has had great success in quilt shows in both the UK and America, winning many prizes and is the only non-American to have more than one quilt in the collection of the Paducah National Quilt Museum.

In 2019 Philippa and her business partner David Tongeman set up ‘Quilters’ Question Time’ (www.quiltersquestiontime.com), an online teaching library where each month Philippa teaches a new class, ultimately building to include all the techniques she has developed to create her award-winning work. The lessons cover a wide spectrum of technical and artistic skills, which are invaluable in aiding students to move forward in their creative journey.