UK Quilters
Here is a little fun quiz to brighten your day. It’s all multiple choice. All you have to do is select your favourite answer or make a new one up. Each question has the first line of a carol. You need to select what goes next. Have you found your favourite line? Or made…
Christmas with the family – Sue Griffiths Everyone wants to be with family and friends at Christmas. Or at least, as a young adult, you feel moderately obliged to join the family. And that was the situation I was in, my first year of full time work in Wellington, New Zealand. My family lived about…
Dad, the gravy boat and Sunbonnet Sue – Christine Franses My parents married a couple of days before Christmas. We decided that for their ruby anniversary we would have a family lunch – the whole family, more than twenty five of us – combined with Christmas celebration. And it was decided that I would host…
Revenge of the tree decorator – Teresa Barrow Just remembered that I shrink wrapped the fake Christmas tree last year …. genuinely ….. after years of have you done it yet? (equivalent to toddlers in the back seat on a long car journey doing the inevitable “Are we there yet?” ) but far far worse!…
I’m so excited about my latest pattern. I have designed a row by row quilt for beginners to teach techniques, which is still in progress. But I just thought the starfish are adorable and would make such a cute baby quilt. …And it did. In fact, I’m so not over the starfish, I had to…
I’ve just had a week of holiday in New Zealand visiting family and enjoying old haunts. I also got lucky enough to go to two quilt shows and a couple of shops. (I mean quilt shops of course, the rest don’t count). Luckily for me Rose City Quilters and Horowhenua Quilters were both having exhibitions.…
Well, firstly, yay for holidays. I’m off to visit family, which is nice, but I need to make sure I’m well prepared for waiting at airports, and have small things to do while relaxing with family. I fly because my family are either overseas or like 17 hours drive away, (that’s the nearest child, the…
The brief we were given for the Sew a Row was ‘ice’. Now, I live in the subtropics in Australia and it’s a long, long time since I’ve been in the ice and snow. In fact the last time I was in the snow was …. around 1985. At the time I was flatting in…
I was lucky enough to go to the Sydney Quilt Show and meet Sharon Bradley who was demonstrating her new product ‘fusamat’. I’d seen the product advertised but was a little unclear on how it worked. So I stopped for a demo. Well, firstly, what is it? It’s a see-through mat that you can press…
I’m really excited about the Quilt Africa Challenge being run by Miriam Galadima Benson from Nigeria. You can follow the link to read her blog post about it. African fabrics are so exciting to use and so different from what we get. They are characterised by being bright and cheerful and evoke the brilliant colours…
I had a wonderful day at the Sydney Quilt show run by Quilt NSW. The standard of quilts was very high and the prize winning quilts were all wonderful. Here is a quick tour of my favourites, not in any particular order. Karen Terrens ‘Snow White’ is a particularly lovely wholecloth quilt. The pale blue…
I love baby quilts, they are small, easy to make and there are so many adorable patterns to choose. But, I want to distinguish very clearly between play quilts and bed quilts. A cot quilt looks so cute. But what about SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)? Nobody wants to put a baby at risk and…
