UK Quilters
I live in a b&b in Whitby. My husband and I do all the running of it. It’s very hard work during the summer months, but great fun helping guests enjoy Whitby and their holidays. There’s always new festivals to enjoy and familiar places and faces to visit. Once the jobs are done and it’s…
This is the beginning of a story about how old quilts can inspire very contemporary interpretations. It is only the beginning, because the contemporary quilt is still a whole lot of ideas floating around in my head, just starting to form and take shape thanks to the inspiration from an unexpected source. I’ve wanted to…
Having looked at designing our own blocks it is time to design our own quilts. Before you even start your design you need the answers to a few questions. Where is the quilt going? Who is the quilt for? Are there any time constraints? Do I enjoy making something intricate or do I get bored…
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…
A good few years ago I was introduced to a quilter, Hilda, who invited me to her home on a Tuesday evening as I wanted to go to a patchwork group and there didn’t seem to be any locally in the evenings. From that first Tuesday evening of 5 in her living room, Puriton Quilters…
I’ve spent most of the summer travelling and now it’s back to work. There changes going on at home so it’s been difficult getting back into the swing of making, but tidying my fabric boxes has been inspirational. Watch the video to find out more. Hope this inspires you to take your scraps and turn…
Last time I muttered in passing about designing ‘blocks’ using hexagons and diamonds and decided to leave them to one side as I am not a hand-piecer. However, my good friend and partner in quilting crime, Barbara Chainey (the other half of ChrisandBarbaraquilts) is a hand-piecer and has often asked me to use EQ to…
I have been sent this book to review and what a beautiful looking and feeling book this is. It feels like fabric and has a close up of beautiful reverse appliqué and seed stitching. Yummy before the first page is turned. The book is divided into seasons as well as ways of working and equipment and…
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…
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…
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…
Judith Clarke
Corinne Curtis
Chris Franses
Sharon Reid
Jane Galley
Abigail Sheridan de Graaff
Ruth Garner