UK Quilters
We’ve had our Ercol dining room table and chairs for over 50 years and thought it needed a ‘service’. I left school at 15 ( yep I’m that old!) and went straight into work at Ercol Furniture in the accounts department. Six years later I was still working there when I got married. It was…
. . . . Stunning Quilts – the title of Stuart Hillards’s new book says it all. The five main chapters each take a simple shape (or combination of those shapes) to make twenty very different blocks and quilts. Whether you are a beginner or just looking for new ideas and inspiration you will find…
Oh! Happy Dance! Well you do don’t you, when a layer cake of fabric clatters unexpectedly through your letterbox for you to review? Oh Boy! It was just up my street too! A fabulous Makower Forest, and a range that you will find in the shops now. If you like cutesy forest animals and bold…
I was lucky enough to be chosen to review a product recently and I duly received a package containing two rulers, Sew Easy 60 Degree Triangle and Sew Easy Half Diamond. Like most quilters I have more than one ruler but I have very few speciality rulers so was keen to see what I thought…
Plan an extension and an unexpected sewing retreat will fall in place just nicely. How did this happen? Through a simple ask on the UKQU pages on where to go for a retreat and the recommending of a place I got to, I find out about Thirklow Cottage and Esther. To cut a long story…
I wrote earlier on this page about my long journey with my quilt “Travelling with Kaffe and Dijanne”. The first blog was about what got me started with it: my dear friend Donna. Read that blog here: https://ukqu.co.uk/blankets-and-fabric/ Before I knew it, I tore up an old bedcover and dyed it in the washingmachine. You…
Do you know that feeling? That a quilt is “ready to be born”, you bought the fabric, you have the pattern at the ready or the drawings done, and you really really are longing to make it? But. There is always so much to do. Work. Housework. Garden. Children. Family, friends, everything seems to cry…
If you have visited here before you know that I am rather partial to modern quilts, so of course my review of Festival of Quilts 2019 had to be about the Modern category didn’t it? In fact it really did because it was one of only 2 sections that I actually managed to see whilst…
It’s been a while since Gulliver did a blog. As you know, or maybe you don’t, he lives in Whitby with me at our B&B, it’s a busy time of year from now on in, right until the end of October so chance to stitch is precious. And the grandchildren have just payed a visit…
Woohoo, it’s August and that means Festival of Quilts. I think I first went to the show in 2015, when I got myself onto a coach trip run by a local(ish) quilt group. The trips is well organised and goes on Thursday, coming back on the Friday night. There’s one night in a hotel on…
Never before had I left it so late to start a mini quilt for the UK Quilters United Mini Swap organised through the UK Quilters United Mini Swap 2019 group. I had been so busy organising the Beartown Patchwork & Quilting exhibition and trying to get my own exhibit ready that I didn’t stop to…
This is my #notgoing blog – as in #notgoing to Festival of Quilts. I sometimes think that I would love to go – then I think no. I would love to see the quilts on display and the shopping opportunities, but who am I kidding? I am not good at crowds, and find Malvern Spring…
Lyn Butler
Chris Franses
Candy Cozens
Abigail Sheridan de Graaff
Sharon Reid
Hilda Wessels
Judith Clarke
ChrisCross
Ruth Garner
Bartysmam