UK Quilters
Oh, what’s a girl to do when you’ve lost your sewing mojo……try and get it back of course! Let me start at the beginning. I store all of my fully made up quilts flat on the spare bed in the guest bedroom. It was my daughters 18th birthday in mid-December and she was going to…
Recently I attended my very first quilting retreat and boy, it did not disappoint, but more on that later. As I had never attended a retreat before I eagerly read up on what people were packing to take along to work on and with. And I made some lists of my own. Quite a few…
Oh boy, where do I begin? I started my quilting journey less than 3 years ago, and I’m totally hooked, some might even go so far as to say that I’m an addict. I have made quilts for everyone in the family, some members even have 2! I have made quilts for friends, their children…
Christmas is not Christmas without a Christmas tree to put all your wonderfully wrapped Christmas presents under. As a person who never had or decorated a Christmas tree until I was 25 years old, I think I might just love the wonder of a tree more than anything else once we are in the festive…
I have been to Festival of Quilts (FOQ) once before, in 2017 with my friend Lynne and we had a good but rather hectic day. Since then I have made friends with the lovely Carol from my local quilt group and Deb another longstanding friend, although not a quilter does like to have a look…
Why am I so critical of my work? This is a question that I have asked myself many, many times, but why am I so critical of my sewing? My first ever quilt I am self-taught and have only been sewing / quilting for around 2.5 years and I watch YouTube tutorials to learn new…
Stashes, we all seem to have them, some bigger than others, but do we really need them?!?! Fat quarter storage I know, I know, it’s a hanging offence just to ask that kind of a question to quilters, but seriously, do we really need a huge stash? 1 box of yardage Some would say definitely…
Spiral Motion by Jo Gray I recently attended the quilt show at the Region 8 Blackthorpe Barn Exhibition and saw some truly amazing quilts, and I hope someday I will be able to make something as good. Some of my favourites are shown in this blog and I have the names of the makers if…
Last year I started hinting to my husband that I had outgrown the corner in my bedroom that I was using for my quilting and that I needed more space. I suggested that maybe I should convert one of the spare bedrooms into a sewing room and then I listed the cons to this suggestion.…
I have blogged several times listing all my ‘bad buys’ and the fact that I never think through my purchases when I’m at shows etc. Well, here is something that I am really glad that I bought (I actually bought 3!) It is a simple gadget / tool / storage item!?!? Not sure what to…
I was lucky enough to be sent the Makower UK Festive Range of fabric squares to review recently, can you imagine, Christmas fabric in April, what fun!!! Makower UK Festive Range The bundle of 14 squares arrived and they were so pretty with shiny gold in the print on some of them and I loved…
As a fairly new quilter I always seem to be drawn to the latest must have gadgets and tools, this can be very costly if you make bad choices! Whilst watching some tutorials I noticed that when trimming blocks that some people used a cutting mat that could be rotated, I thought that this was…
