UK Quilters
I couldn’t help but make a third version of my Nine Patch Daisy! Here, I oversized the background by laying the background templates on 9” squares changed up the nine patch and added stitch and flip 1 ¼” corners to the centre square took 6” strips of 4 fabrics, folded them in half and freehanded…
Hi! My name is Eleanor, and I run a small online quilt shop called justsewnow.com. We have a large and varied selection of fabric, stacked right to the roof! We recently put in a large flower bed packed to the brim (it’s sort of a theme here!) with flowers for all seasons. When this flower…
2020 Blog Hop – Folded EPP flowers About Me I live with my husband of twenty-four years on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides on the West Coast of Scotland. I began sewing before I went to school and I have been quilting for nearly twenty years. I worked in IT for over…
The beautiful blue cornflower was adopted as the national symbol for MND..Motor Neurone Disease because of its fragile appearance but hardy nature. Like the cornflower, people with MND show remarkable strength in coping with this devastating disease. I decided to make this block for the GFBH2020 as it is so beautiful and has a powerful…
Have you had enough of flowers for one quilt, or would you just like some ideas to break up the design a bit? I’ve had a look online and found quite a few different free* patterns which may go well with the Garden Flower theme for this blog hop. Disclaimer: The designs for all of…
Hi and welcome to my first block design (exciting !). I joined this blog hop following an email I received from Craft Cotton Co (via UKQU). I am involved in writing tutorials and blogs for them and the shout out came for anyone who wanted to get involved in the Blog Hop and I thought,…
I used templates provided with a quilt magazine, scraps of cotton in colours of choice, a 12 inch square in border fabric. Print out the template sheet onto heavy paper or light card. Cut out templates. Using the colour for the centre of the flower, cut and attach fabric to 4 of the elongated hexagon…
Pam Moore wanted to join in with our amazingly popular Garden Flowers Blog Hop, but as happens from time to time, life got in the way. Not wanting to disappoint we asked Lyn Butler to help out and this is what Pam told her. In Pam Moores words: I normally spend more time at our…
Simple Stylised Roses For the Garden Flowers 2020 blocks, I had intended to create a Bindweed block. After all, we do have it in our gardens …if we are not vigilant! But they have a pentagonal structure, and sadly, I am Mathematically challenged. They just don’t tesselate. So I went for simple and foolproof. Circles…
For this block we’re going to make four 6.5″ foundation paper pieced blocks each with a flower, stem and leaf. Once sewn together, they’ll make up a 12.5″ (12″ finished) block. Please read the full instructions before you start and use the comments (scroll down to the bottom of the page) if you have any questions.…
The popular name for this patchwork design reflects the romance of the Victorian Era with it’s love of elaborate decoration on household items & decor. Dresden, Germany was a center of 19th Century romanticism movement in art, one that included the fine decoration of porcelain. The plate were embellished with elaborate design using flowers, fruits…
With the Picket/Garden Fence border blocks made I thought about how I could bring the blog hop Flower theme into the border. After much deliberation I finally decided on this delightful mini Tulip block. It’s so easy to make and can easily be made from your ‘scrap stash’ and you can choose to have each corner…
Eleanor Carleton
Kathryn Campbell
Lyn Butler
Nina
Gill Rich
Margaret Hamilton
Maggie Attfield
Carol Lightburn