UK Quilters
Maggie Lloyd-Jones .. founder of the Q4CL Project has an appeal ..in her own words: I’ve written lots about Quilts For Christmas Dinners – the public face of Quilts for Care Leavers (Q4CL) – and our fantastic company of quilters. We are aiming for 1000 quilts this year, enough for at least 20 Christmas Day…
Isn’t it what every quilter wants, their own longarm and frame? It’s mostly a question of money and space, and I have very little of either but I am a determined little bunny, so here goes… I was lucky enough to get this Grace Next Generation quilting frame at an absolute bargain price on our…
To those who have not met or heard of Kelly Cline, here’s a link to her biography. Here Kelly introduces her favourite quilt. “Champagne and Caviar”, is the title I’ve given to this spectacular quilt! It began as a 100 year old, silk embroidered tablecloth, purchased from an estate sale. Unfortunately, I have…
In my last blog I discussed learning to use rulers on your machines and designing with them. The response was fantastic, so much so that I am going to have to look at repeating the class later in the year as this one has sold out. I have also been asked many times to put…
Many of you commented on the last post I did, so I thought you might like to see this little one I have been working on. This is a small piece of Radiance fabric (which unfortunately is no long available) and is a mix of cotton and silk. I tied it and dyed it at…
This year will be my second year working at Festival of Quilts. It seems like yesterday that I turned up at Pinhole Quilting’s stand, well shall I say floor space because on the Tuesday lunchtime that was all it was!, as the new girl and not really knowing what to expect. I had bought my…
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I want to do something just a little different and original. About 2 yrs ago I found ice dying and it opened up a whole new world. It can be a very random and mystical process or a little more precise but still mystical, you never really know…
I hope the last blog gave you a little insight into how I am creating the Dragon quilt. There is still so much to be done with it yet and some will have to stay a bit of a secret until later on but I will take you through the whole process eventually. When I…
Hi, Good to see you back. I hope you are enjoying my post’s. In the last one I said I would take you through the creation of the Dragon, which by the way, still does not have a property show name yet, but I am sure that will come. For those of you that have…
Some of you will have seen the posts from others about the 1st UK Longarm Quilting Academy held by Pinhole Quilting, the UK HandiQuilter distributor. What an event!. As UK Ambassador for HandiQuilter it was so good to see two other Ambassadors from the US Kim Brunner and Kelly Cline, who are both fantastic quilters…
Hi everyone, welcome back By the time you read this the inaugural UK Handi Quilter Academy, which I was lucky enough to attend, will be over and everyone will be back home, I thought you might like to hear about what we got up to. It took place in Bristol at the Aztec Hotel and…
Well how are we enjoying the new website, the Bloggers are fab and so diverse, the shops are so tempting as are the free patterns. So far I have signed up for the Mystery Quilt by Abbieanne (Click here) and am excitedly awaiting its arrival. I have also joined in to The Block of the…
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