UK Quilters
Clear Flower Bag from M&S as a top layer. I do take out my own bags but sometimes I forget and need to pick one up while shopping. Things also come through the post in unwanted plastic and friends give you things in plastic bags so it is hard to get away from it. Thus…
Congleton Chronicle – a quilt made by 21 members in 1987, raffled for a local Hospice. 35 years ago (1984) a lady put an advert in a shop window in Congleton, Cheshire, asking if anyone wanted to get together and form a patchwork and quilting group. There were about five responses and so the group…
The other night I lay in bed tossing and turning thinking about my upcoming holiday and how I was going to transport a mini quilt I was working on without folding it and messing it up (lots of little pieces arranged on it). At 2 am I decided to get up and tackle the problem…
A good thing about belonging to a patchwork and quilting group, apart from the social element of spending time with like minded people, is that you end up doing things you wouldn’t otherwise do. Of course it depends on the group. I joined the Beartown Patchwork & Quilters group about three years ago and it…
Vegans don’t usually buy leather products and so finding a nice phone case it sometimes difficult. One day as I was, yet again, searching for a nice case to replace my old one (one of those you open up like a book with credit card holders on one side) I took out my phone to…
The quilting bag which can be adapted for your needs . I so enjoyed the sew-a-row challenge last year (Fire & Ice) that I signed up again when the word was out that there was going to be another one. I am one of those people who think things are ‘a good idea at the…
I was one of the lucky Bloggeratti to go in the Quilting Retreat at the beginning of December and it was the best thing since sliced bread! Good company, great space, nice vegan food, good bar and a nice clean bedroom. I have never met any of the other bloggers before and it was so…
When my friends asked me two weeks ago if I was making all my Xmas presents I jokingly said : ‘in August I decided to make everyone I love a gift for Xmas but in November I decided I only loved one person’…. It was funny, and it had tickled me when I read the joke…
Leaf Book Mark Water soluble stabiliser (WSS) reinforces hand and machine embroidery and is a fun material to work with. Looking for ideas to ‘play’ with this material I came upon a lovely YouTube tutorial by Deborah Wirsu called Textile Leaf Bookmarks. The idea is to collect leaves, draw the outline of one on a…
Explore the Plains Most dinosaurs were herbivores, living on a vegetarian diet of ferns, conifers and other plants This is a gorgeous fat quarter pack of dinosaur fabrics which have been designed by the Cotton Craft Company alongside the Natural History Museum. They are stamped with facts and great images and I particularly love the…
“Help! My walking foot is dropping little marks on my work” I posted in the UK Quilters United FaceBook group “You probably bought a cheap foot” came the sharp reply from one of our trusted experts. Well! I was well and truly flabbergasted and mightily embarrassed (hangs head in shame). But… she was absolutely…
OK! So it is a book pillow but with a bit of a slant! What do you get a very dear friend for a special birthday when you know she has everything she needs? I thought and thought and came up with a plan…. a good book, chocolate and wine makes for a blissful evening…
