Category Archives: Bloggers

A Wedding Stole

Earlier this year my brother, a widower, announced he had ‘met someone’. Not only that but they were getting married the next month. Cue much family panic – insufficient time to buy an ‘outfit’; how grand a wedding, do we need a hat? Most of this panic was from our little sister and the more…

Flange Binding

Well, before starting to write a Blog on Flange Binding, I did a search and found two Blogs that contained the word ‘Flange’. One was by Ruth Garner for her beautiful Northern Lights Mini Quilt that she made for this years’ UKQU Swap and the other was by our Founder of UKQU, Juliet Nice. From…

Finishing workshop projects

Having enjoyed three busy days at Festival of Quilts last month I attended eight workshops, two were half day workshops the others were hour long workshops. My friend and I have been admiring free motion sewing for many years, so we plucked up the courage to attend a few free motion classes. The tutors and…

Big girl pants time!

I’ve finally got a sewing room! I’m so excited! I’ve had to decorate two room and convince my son to move into a different (bigger) bedroom, his only condition was that I paint it grey(it was pale purple). After three long hard days decorating I finally finished his room, I looked at the spare room…