UK Quilters
The themes for my blogs this year have been stash busting and the UKQU bookclub, but recently I’ve been busy designing t-shirts for sale, yep, you read that correctly. A while back I was approved as a Merch by Amazon seller. This means I am able to design and sell t-shirts, sweaters, etc on Amazon (currently…
After learning how to make and use half-square triangles in the first instalment of this series, in this blogpost, we will move onwards, discovering how to make quarter square triangles. As usual, this will be illustrated by two traditional blocks: Ohio Star (an easy one well known to many of you already) and Silent Star,…
This time of year is always a busy time with work and within my household, even those times are strange there still seems to be lots of things going on. It’s recently been my sons birthday, how do I have a teenager! He was thrilled that he has a finished rainbow Bargello quilt and an…
Last month I showed you my books on hand quilting and promised a peek at my machine quilting books this month. I think next month I will have to continue with quilting books – the ones with ideas and designs in them. But, for the time being, I’ll talk you through the technique ones. I…
When it comes to starting a new hobby, how many of you are tempted to go all in and buy all the tools and equipment you can find? It can be very expensive and overwhelming at the beginning and it’s no different with quilting. Quilting can turn into a very expensive hobby and when you…
Rainbow Bubbles ( background filler) A great little filler, easy and fun to do, use verigated thread for a great look. But will be just as effective in a solid colour. Have fun and enjoy https://youtu.be/V2ZKOWv1_R
*Spoonflower fabric: too nice to cut. Like many quilters, I love fabric. And like many quilters, colour attracts me like shiny things do a magpie. After my love affair with fabric (see my Golden Thread blog post), I found myself wondering about the names of colours-often outdated now, but so very evocative! Modern classifications just…
Day 43: No stitches today. Diary Entry: It was a semi productive day with regard catching up on admin, but been crabby for most of it. It was strongly implied that I was not sewing fast enough, which in turn caused me grief and upset. I ended up tired and in pain, which resulted in…
One of the questions I see often on various Facebook posts and pages is ‘How do you store your fabric?’. Then there are the posts that show how people have stored their fabric – you know the ones – those pictures apparently showing shelves of bolts of fabric, all organised by colour, with stacks of…
The other day was fine – dry, warm, not raining – so a friend and I met up for a suitably socially-distanced picnic in my garden. I’d been over to visit Ann in her new garden (but not house!) just after the lockdown was eased and we had a picnic in her garden, wandered around,…
Many of you will know or will have heard of, Abbieanne Patchwork and Design. She’s a wonderful character, full of exuberance and a joy to be around so when I happened to be on holiday in Cornwall this summer I thought I’d call in and see her famous ‘Therapy Cupboard’. Abbieanne’s Therapy Cupboard Abbie is oft…
Trying to bring structure to our garden toys and to ensure all sets are together, I decided to make some simple fabric bags to store everything in. As a result, here is another stash busting idea. A few of our garden toys Material Scrap fabric of suitable size for the contents Cotton ribbon / tape…
Nina
Carolyn Gibbs
Sarah Wells
Chris Franses
Jane Galley
Sandra Pearson
Maggie Attfield
Denise Inkson
Christine Hutchins
Helen Kent