UK Quilters
When I knew I was going to be involved in putting something together for this quilt, I was both thrilled and apprehensive. When I’m planning or designing quilts at home, they tend to take on a mind of their own as they come together. When you are working with other people, it’s not always that…
I hate anything going to waste and that included patchwork blocks. When I was doing some pattern testing for the Sew A Row Fire Quilt, I ended up with two blocks that weren’t used. They’d been sitting in the bottom of the box and I just had to do something with them. I couldn’t let…
Having seen lots of wonderful projects on Pinterest made using the Clover Embroidery Stitching Tool, I was eager to volunteer for the task of reviewing it. There was a press release about it earlier in the year, you can see it here. It is available from most craft shops, prices from around £10. You will…
I can begin to tell you how thrilled I was to be asked to review some fabric for Gütermann and even more delighted when the box came through the door. The video will give you my thoughts in more details and I’ll show you what I made with two of the fabrics included. In brief,…
If you want to catch up and find out what was needed for this bag, you can find all the details here. I’m happy to say that the changing bag is now complete so join me as I show you how it has turned out. The changing bag is quite large, but very lightweight. With no…
I love making and to make to satisfy someone’s special needs and requirements is so very satisfying. Being asked to make this changing bag means a lot and I know it will mean so much to the recipients. If all the supplies had been delivered on time, I could have showed you the finished item…
I’m very privileged to have main responsibility for the the UKQU Pinterest account and I love it. It means I get to browse around the new products our members are listing and get to see lots of helpful reviews as well as hints and tips. Our bloggers are also able to pin photos from their…
With the growth of social media, it has become so much easier to share our creative masterpieces. This can be a good thing as it can lead to inspiration but it can also have a negative effect. Have you looked at an amazing quilt and then thought, I could never do that! For many, just…
I don’t know about you, but I hate throwing anything away in my sewing room. Snippets of thread, yarn, and fabric must have a useful purpose, but what do you do with them? Do you have uses for them, or do you find it easy to let go? For several years now, I have a…
Having come home from work, I opened an unexpected package. I put my hand in and felt a rubber ring and I was trying to work out who would send me such a thing and what it was for. It wasn’t until I pulled it right out and saw the label that I realised it…
BOM=Block of the Month There are a lots of different ways of doing a BOM. In its most basic form, a blogger will release a different blog each month with a tutorial, you source the materials and put them together. Now, they’ve grown from that with shops and designers offering BOM’s at what can sometime…
