UK Quilters
I’ve been designing a new sampler quilt recently for people that would like to expand their knowledge as a follow on from my beginner’s quilt workshops. Incorporating lots of different techniques in the blocks, I’m planning on running this on a monthly basis and I was thinking that perhaps creating a Quilt Block Keeper Bag…
Those who know me know that my weakness is not chocolate, or alcohol, or even fabric. It is sewing machines, though I see myself more as a re-homer than a collector. Some people rehome dogs; with me, it’s machines. I don’t like to see them wasted. My weakness is old Elnas, not the really old…
What now seems like forever, several years since, I joined a weekend workshop with Sheena Roberts (Green Man Quilts) at the Jane White Sewing Studios. These are at the Ropewalk in Barton on Humber, an arts and crafts hub with a very tasty deli-style cafe where an eclectic mix of crafters can be found. …
Friendship Star Quilt I didn’t realise that there was going to be a Part 2 to this but yet here we are with a Part 3. Admittedly they have been spread over a bit of a long time. As I have said before, I am such an amazingly fortunate person to be earning my living…
Although most of the Members of the UKQU, there are a few Newbies who may not have made a Fabric Postcard. So, I thought I would share my Birthday Card Postcard which I have made for my No 1 Grandson! What you need: A design – this could be a Theme determined by the Admin…
What was I thinking? Words are really strange things. They have fixed meanings. We can look them up in a dictionary. But then suddenly they don’t mean what we think they do! Societal norms vary. We get “Wicked” and “Sick” being positive words – I am too old to be able to handle that!! But…
Day 29: Star Stitch, with perle thread. Diary Entry: Cleaning day, but not productive or balanced. The morning was great. Sorted out my sewing corner, my project bag, my embroidery work space and my embroidery box. But when it came to cleaning the rest of the house I had nothing but interruptions. I still had…
When it comes to designing a quilt it can sometimes help to go with a theme – especially for a sampler or a block of the month – such as ‘seaside’, ‘houses’, ‘trees’. You then have the entertaining task of finding blocks that fit the theme, that ‘go’ together, that perhaps make use of different…
Free Motion Quilting, Whole Cloths. This is a video challenge that I set myself, of using 3 stencils, 3 colours of thread and 3 designs. which could be a mixture of one part of a stencil, or a full stencil. As with the designs using parts of or all of the design. Which where (straight…
Which blocks work best together when making a Sampler Quilt? Some people would say that you could choose any blocks, but I think that the finished result will be more pleasing if a bit more thought goes into your decisions. (It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree with me by the way – you can…
As promised last month, the book for June has exactly the same title as the one we read during May; A Single Tread. The author for the June version is Tracy Chevalier. The book takes us to Southampton and Winchester in 1930s England where we get to know Violet Speedwell, who is a ‘surplus woman’.…
How small a scrap of fabric do you keep? The answer is different for everyone. Some scraps I have are tiny but I might just need that particular shade of blue for an appliquéd eye at some point. So during lockdown I have vowed to tackle my scraps and reduce the ever-expanding bags/boxes that grow…
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