UK Quilters
If you have been around young children, as a parent, grandparent or friend, you have probably seen the sack-like things the toddlers sit in when it’s a bit cold or to protect them from the sun? These footmuffs / cosytoes / bunting bags, or whatever you like to call them, are super-handy as they are…
Long, long ago (well, it feels like it), when Maxi Mister was small and Mini hadn’t arrived, I decided to make some of the things I knew I needed for when Mini did pop out. Maxi had been cloth-nappied until potty training, so we had also used washable changing mats. By washable, I mean bung…
Yep, that was football and hexagons in the same sentence! If you have been really bored, you may have found out that a typical football consists of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I say ‘typical’ football, as the older ones were made up of rectangular-ish shapes and the latest one used for the World Cup…
In the third part of my series of tutorials on making this lovely curved English paper-pieced flower cushion, I’m going to show you how to hand appliqué your pieced ring onto the fat quarter of background fabric using a tiny slip stitch. The edges of the flower are already turned under and nicely pressed, making…
CAMDEN BOWL A great way of using all those narrow pieces of wadding that you have left over when you are sandwiching a quilt. My Bowl has a circular base with a diameter of 7inches. But you can make it smaller or larger and elliptical rather than round. For this Bowl you will need 6…
I had so much lovely feedback from last month’s post that I thought I would share another technique that I really enjoy: appliqué. I am the first to admit that I’m not a lover of hand applique but I’ve always enjoyed machine appliqué. I really like the way that you can make a word, image…
TOILETRY BAG – Easy make, in about half an hour. As the summer is just around the corner (well, maybe), I thought I would make and Blog a Zipper Pouch Toiletry Bag. I have made several of these, they are quite quick and relatively easy to make. Here goes: You will need 2 pieces of…
Following on from last month’s blog post, I thought I’d talk about another of the UKQU Facebook page’s satellite pages for ‘swaps’. There is the postcard swap, a block swap, hexie flower swaps and the infamous mini quilt swap. This is my second year in the mini quilt swap. The mini quilt swap is a…
So far, I have discussed the acquiring of items for starting this exciting hobby. Now I feel it is time to start to experiment with them. Working on the principle that you already have the shirt, various other fabric items and the sewing kit, I would like to talk you through making a quilted pincushion,…
As you may have seen on Pinterest or Instagram, English paper-piecing is currently taking the quilting world by storm, and in particular fussy-cut EPP. In this technique, each of the paper shapes are cut from identical areas of a fabric, often creating a kaleidoscope-type pattern. This technique is often seen with straight edged shapes such…
The AQC is one quilt show I have never been to before because I live too far away. This year, however, the stars aligned and I couldn’t stay away. Zarina, a quilting friend from Malaysia, was able to go and the opportunity was just too good to miss. Zarina and I first got acquainted over…
Well, it is April already! This month I have decided to use the fabric that I made when testing the Twisted Pinwheel Template by ‘Crafty-UK’ for the Product Review. Requirements: Front Fabric with the Twisted Pinwheel design 18″ x 18″ …
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