UK Quilters
Jonathan Dymond As the first guy blogger allow me to give you a very quick synopsis of my background. I come from an old coal mining area, Cinderford in the Royal Forest of Dean in Glousestershire. Went to a secondary school and gained a CSE Grade 1 in Needlecraft (the first guy ever in the…
My sister asked me months ago to make a giraffe themed quilt, the remit was simply that… giraffe oh and beige/browns. Now my sister knows how much I love a challenge and I will admit to having lost my quilting mojo over the last 8 months or so following some tough personal times. I think…
Just going to put it out there straight away, this is not about double sided quilts, this is about being a bit creative – especially when you haven’t got enough fabric for your backing! Storm over an Amish Sea Once upon a time, when the world and I were young (and dinosaurs roamed the earth!)…
Choosing African prints for quilting might be a little daunting because the patterns are bold and the colours plenty! If you are a beginner and feeling a unsure, my advise is to approach it the way you would choose the fabrics for any other quilt you are making. Let the idea of the quilt you…
I think it’s really satisfactory to take an old piece of denim and embellish that with some colourful patches of fabric and thread. Doing some hand embroidery is a great start if you have never done anything like this before. You can start with one spot and wear your piece in between and later on…
Hello everyone…Miriam here. I’m an Architect turned stay-at-home wife and mother to two beautiful girls and a baby boy. I live in Africa, in a country with no culture or history of quilting, quilt shops, guilds or workshops, but somehow I fell in love with quilts and quilting and after months of drooling over the…
Happy New Year and happy new UKQU website. Hi, I’m Lyn Butler and I feel very honoured to be small part of this new exciting venture.Being part of the blogging team ( my first time) is both challenging and a little scary! I was introduced to patchwork, by my dear friend, 18 years…
About a year ago I found myself very bored with my job. I felt very guilty about it, since it was a dreamjob… I worked as a coordinator for a project called “Home-Start”, where I train, coach, support and match volunteers to a family. The volunteers stay for about a year in the family and…
If you have read my Bio or popped onto my own blog, you will know that I write under the name Picklepiemama, and that I spend far too much time making things (or, at the very least, thinking about making things). I love sewing and, like many of you, have far too much fabric lying…
Achoo!………..I’m off sick with a chest infection…cough, cough, splutter, splutter….achoo! The thing I’d like to do most is get up there and finish the thing I was working on before I took to my bed. But I’m not going to. You know how you feel, and you know what you can do, but if you’re…
Looking back over my quilting journey reminded me that every year one of the quilt groups I belong to holds a Christmas Challenge. The previous years winner sets the new challenge and last year Frances Meredith set a Round Robin challenge which proved to be SO MUCH fun. The first round was to make a…
Jonathan Dymond
Elizabeth Goldsworthy
Sheena Roberts
Miriam Galadima-Benson
Marijke Van Welzen
Lyn Butler
Hilda Wessels
jacqui_cole
Alison Ball
Helen Kent