Category Archives: Bloggers

Win a pair of tickets for the Bowes Museum

Sylvia Priest - webmaster and quilter21st June 2021Bloggers, Competitions

The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle has some beautiful collections, including one of the greatest collections of North Country Quilts. This collection will be on display until January 2022. Several of our members have already been to visit - you can follow Caroline Griffiths latest visit in our Blogger section. The lovely people in charge…

North Country Quilts at the Bowes Part 1: Strippy quilts

Carolyn Gibbs21st June 2021Quilting, Quilting News

Currently, there is a wonderful exhibition of Heritage quilts on display at the Bowes Museum, which is near Barnard Castle. These are all British quilts made in the North East of England from the mid nineteenth century onwards. If you think that all traditional quilts are made from blocks, you may be in for a…

July 2021 UKQU Book Club

Nina21st June 2021Bloggers

The book for July in the UKQU Book Club is The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie. Linked by a sewing machine, we meet the three main characters Jean, Connie and Fred in this sweet Scottish story mixing some historic facts with family life, romance and kindness. Jean’s story takes place at the beginning of the…

Clover notions

Sylvia Priest - webmaster and quilter17th June 2021Bloggers

We have been rather busy in the day job at Resolution recently, and for once it was an assignment I really enjoyed. Many of you here might not realise that aside from running this fabulous website Resolution are also professional video producers. Just before lockdown we built one of the few private greenscreen recording studios…

Review of Makower UK’s ‘Classic Christmas’

That's Sew Kerry14th June 2021Bloggers, Product review, Quilting, Quilting Fun

I was really pleased to receive sample squares of this traditional Christmas fabric – ‘traditional’ is not my usual thing so I was looking forward to a challenge and being able to make whatever I liked with it. Classic Christmas is made up of 10 different prints in green, red, cream and gold in a…

Use it or lose it – now more relevant than ever!!

Vendulka Battais12th June 2021Bloggers, Quilting Fun, Quilting News

The long winter lockdown is over and retail has now been open for nearly three months. We are all happy that we can see our family and have a chatter over coffee with a friend. Unfortunately not everything is as bright and shiny as this lovely summer weather. You might not be aware of it,…

Jomil Junior Strips courtesy of PANICO’s

Carol Lightburn12th June 2021Bloggers, Product review, Quilt bags & Gladrags

My trip to the North East always means I visit PANICO’s in Stockton-on-Tees so I can top up my fabric stash. They always have an excellent range of reasonably priced fabric to suit all pockets whether you are a quilter or dress maker. Like all fabric retailers PANICO’s have been keeping their customers going via…

Puzzle Quilt Block 6

Chris Franses10th June 2021Block of the Month, Bloggers, Free Patterns, Patchwork, Patterns & Makes, Puzzle Quilt Block of the Month

Block 6 of the Puzzle Quilt has arrived. This month’s block, called In A Spin, introduces another unit – Flying Geese. But first a few words of apology and explanation. Last month I said there might be a random extra post and it was intended to look at quilts to make with last month’s block.…

Clover Wonder Pins

That's Sew Kerry10th June 2021Bloggers, Patchwork, Product review, Quilting, Quilting Fun

I’m delighted to be given the opportunity to test this clever hybrid of two products I already love to use – what do you get when you cross Wonder Clips and quilters safety pins? Clover Wonder Pins of course! A new concept from Clover that offers the benefit of both straight pins and safety pins,…

Quilting for Fun

Jane Galley9th June 2021Bloggers, Quilting Fun

So often, when you run a business around quilting, you can forget to quilt for yourself for the pure enjoyment of the process. Yet, it’s what we need to keep our creativity fresh. After a really hectic couple of months, I made a conscious decision to have some quilting fun, just for me. Back last…

Gutermann creativ launch four new thread packs

Sylvia Priest - webmaster and quilter7th June 2021Quilting Fun, Quilting News

Now available on 300m reels, Gütermann creativ has added some colourful Cotton 30 Thread Packs to their already extensive range! Do we really need an excuse to add to our thread stash? Cotton Thread is soft, supple and both light-resistant and colourfast, even in temperatures of 95 degrees. The natural softness of pure cotton…

Review of Makower Uk’s ‘Santa Express’

Marti McLachlan7th June 2021Bloggers, Patchwork, Product review

I was delighted to receive 20 x 8″ squares of this beautiful Christmas fabric to make whatever I liked with and to give a review of it. Santa Express is a bright, colourful Christmas fabric range by Makower Uk. I am already a fan of Makower, so was really looking forward to it. I was…

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