UK Quilters
I was very lucky to be asked to review a new range by Makower, called Sunny Bee. I am a total sucker for dots, bees, daisies and sunflowers. This range features all of these elements, so frankly I’m in heaven. Sunny Bee by Makower, is a gorgeous range due to hit stores in February. It’s…
The advantage of making your own tassles is that you will always have them to match the item you are making. You can match colour, materials and size. I’ve always made them before using cardboard so I was quick to jump at the chance to try out the Clover Tassle Maker. I was sent the…
Over the holidays and the last couple of weekends I had a bit of spare time, so went for a wander around a well known stuff shop. In our home it’s actually known as Stuff Shop, even though it sells clothing too. Mostly we shop for the stuff. It struck me as I was wandering…
Charm Spaces 2 We are again filing in the negative spaces on our quilt. In this second video we will be using a stencil showing you that by doing so you can expand your design to make a different pattern. We will be doing the Figure Eight pattern, Circles, and in the four corners Feathers.…
When we were asked to do the music themed quilts, it was all good fun. There wasn’t a lot of pressure on us as it was all down to personal interpretation of the song. So the Bloggers asked for another challenge. Its great fun, and this time we were asked to create our quilt interpretation…
This is a tale I found in a very old book dated around 1364. I discovered the volume holding up a back leg of an old sideboard in a deceased relatives house, in the old fishing port of Whitby. It was very tatty and musty smelling, with many small nibbles, mould and fungi sprouting out…
The new Library of Birmingham replaced the Central Library and was opened in September 2013. Situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the Birmingham Rep and Baskerville House. There was an international competition announced to design the New Library and early August 2008, Mecanoo, and multi-discipline engineers, Buro Happold,…
I have always been a bit of a one for lovely fabric .. ok ok, so I admit I might have a couple of metres more than I am ever likely to use in my lifetime, but when Makower UK sent me the new Edyta Sitar range to review I decided I would take a…
It is time again for another stash busting idea – a bag holder and this make will be perfect for Fat Quarters. As each bag only uses one FQ, you may need to make a few of these… The bag holders originally were a great way to gather all freebie plastic bags we got in…
Charm Spaces The next Series I am introducing is Charm Spaces. There are 4 videos in this series. This is where we take the negative spaces in our quilts and fill them in. We will be working with 10 inch spaces but the first video can be transferred to any size. Charm Space 1 Any…
February is coming up, and with it Payday finally thank goodness. But more importantly, the second part of my Calendar Block of the Month! The pattern is available to download at the UK Quilters Shop Here’s Annetta’s January ‘J’. She’s used snowflake fabric for the J, I wonder if she’ll use similarly appropriate fabric for…
I have now received the first mailing of this new Club. This new Design Club has been created by Donna McCauley a Westalee Accredited tutor in the USA. Which is designed to use Westalee Quilting Rulers on traditional quilt blocks. I want to try this club when I saw the first announcement about it from…
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