UK Quilters
Some of you may know that Strictly Quilting has been running sewing retreats for a couple of years now in collaboration with Cecilia Slinn. We recently held our Summer Retreat where we had a fabulous time. There were two projects for people to make. Cecilia brought us a Project Bag and I designed a Block…
If you’ve met me before at a show, in a class or on our wonderful retreats you may well also have met my Mum. We started our quilting journey together well over a decade ago at a local quilt shop and, as the saying goes, didn’t look back. From quilt shows to exhibitions, local quilt…
This year is passing so quickly. Easter has come and gone and the garden has started to grow even with all the rain. It’s about now I start to look forward to summer, hoping for a little sunshine to make us all feel better. Cecilia Slinn and I have been arranging this summer’s June Retreat…
Create a whole range of unique and special projects* by combining waddings and interfacings from The Patchwork and Quilting range from Vlieseline. Made from natural, sustainable materials such as wool, cotton and soya, there is sure to be something for everyone! The fusible non-woven Quilter’s Grid and the natural blend batting 279 Soft Cotton work…
Towards the start of this year I was hoping to host a Sew A-Long (SAL) series of blogs on my website Strictly Quilting. Well, sometimes life gets in the way by throwing the odd curve ball and I found things didn’t quite work out the way I’d planned. I’d started the design, based on star…
A tool for pressing seams – it’s that simple! No frills, no tricks, a simple little tool that gets the job done but can be used in a multitude of ways depending on the project. Made from hard, sturdy plastic it has a slanted end with a round indentation on the top to rest…
Gütermann is one of the most popular thread producers having been around for decades. As a girl, the chap that used to service our sewing machine always recommended Gütermann thread and I still use it for a lot of my piecing and dressmaking. They have a wide range of threads and one is Deco Stitch.…
“A lightweight, soft, sew-in wadding made from bleached cotton with scrim, allowing an excellent combination of a soft hand feel and a lightweight construction while still providing significant stability and support. Especially developed for quilts and light coloured fabrics but is also very well suitable for lightweight but warm jackets and coats.” Sounds too…
This lovely quilt has been designed by the well known quilter, tutor and quilt designer Paula Doyle. If you know her personally then you wil also now how generous she is with sharing her work too. Paula’s latest design .. Four Patch Crossing Quilt .. is so simple to put together that everyone, even…
Late last year a group of five stitchers from the Bloggarati on UKQU, the lovely group who provide us with the Blogs on the website, got together to devise another free Sew a Row quilt. We did a pair of quilts a few years ago, Fire and Ice, which were fun to make and joined…
One of my FAVOURITE things about patchwork and quilting is the community – quilters are such a lovely bunch, there is always some kind of swap, quilt along, charity quilt, sew along, community project going on, we just can’t help but be involved and I love that. So I was thrilled to be included in…
Who put my hand up to join in with this latest sew-a-row? Of course, I did it myself, having thoroughly enjoyed the Fire & Ice quilts that I was involved with plus the separate project where a few of us swapped rows which resulted in a fabulous quilt with rows donated by others and I…
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