UK Quilters
Imagine you are 18, been in care most of your life, and next week you will be living on your own for the first time, with no one other than your overworked social worker to turn to. This is the situation for many young people every year, and Christmas 2019 will be a time when…
Thirteen lots of quilts and textiles from the estate of Hannah Hauxwell are to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Costume, Fashion and Textiles Sale on 9th February, in their North Yorkshire Salerooms. Hannah Hauxwell (1926-2018) was emblematic of the tough, resourceful upland farmers of North Yorkshire and County Durham. Having run her family farm, Low…
How many questions to Lyn Butler’s New Year’s Eve Quiz did you manage to get through? If you are still struggling here’s the answers: THIS FRACTION NEEDS SW FAT QUARTER BIT OF A TRIFLE TURNING …
Here’s a Cryptic Quiz from Lyn Butler, someone I am sure you are familiar with and who is one of our most prolific contributers. If you can’t answer them all don’t worry, we will publish the answers next week! Lyn’s Cryptic Sewing Quiz Don’t worry, we will publish the answers tomorrow but let’s see…
If you have been following the Quilts for Christmas Dinners you will maybe already have seen posts from Maggie Lloyd-Jones who started this amazing project. Sometimes things happen that reach out to us all .. this one certainly did to many of us, and will continue for many years to come. In Maggie’s own words:…
Mondegreens, or misheard lyrics feature in most people’s playlist! But what are the actual songs these might relate to! Just for a bit of fun over the festive period … see how many you can guess, or how many you thought were the actual lyrics 🎤 or share with us your own misheard lyrics. Everyones searching…
Sue Burford has created a clever little crossword to keep you thinking whilst you wrap your presents and sip the gin this lovely Christmas Eve. Download Christmas Crossword Keep an eye out for the answers. ,We are wishing you all from us here at the UKQU Website, the Merriest of Christmas! xxx
This was my first quilting retreat, held last few days of November and over Sylvia’s birthday. I’m told that the rule is “what happens on retreat stays on retreat”, i.e. no telling tales. Ha ! I’m a rule breaker…… What a surprise: I turned up later than anyone else on late on the Friday, having…
Banyarns have always been a great friend of ours here at the UKQU website and were one of the first companies to offer their support to our regular competitions with prizes and rewards, so when we started to see mention of problems happening, missed orders and more, we decided to investigate on behalf of everyone. At first, we…
Kelly Cline, the Kansas based professional longarmer, continues her story about her favourite quilt and how she achieved an amazing finish using a Vintage Tablecloth. If you missed Part one its here .. and Kelly introduces herself to those of you who have not met such an accomplished longarm quilter before if you click into Quilting News…
Day two dawned early and it was chilly outside, but no one at the Bloggerati Retreat was bothered about the weather. All the workstations were set up and manned from early doors. The joy of it all was being able to stumble down to a full english breakfast without a worry of who would be…
Have you ever wanted to enter one of your own quilts into an Exhibition? We asked you all this back in April, and wow .. did you ever. So many beautiful quilts have been entered, and once we have heard from November’s final winner we will bring them all together for you to enjoy here. …
