UK Quilters
WARNING: Some people may find one of the pieces pictured a little disturbing – but don’t let that stop you from reading the blog and the explanation of the work! Like many people, I have suffered with depression. I can see evidence that depression has been a feature of my life for a number of…
I promised I would tell you about Laurel Burch. One of my favourite designers, probably my all time favourite, she passed away in 2007, and with her passing, all production of her fabric designs ceased. Finding her fabrics became a case of international ebay’ing, or spotting the odd leftover in local shops. In 2015 Laurel’s…
BOM=Block of the Month There are a lots of different ways of doing a BOM. In its most basic form, a blogger will release a different blog each month with a tutorial, you source the materials and put them together. Now, they’ve grown from that with shops and designers offering BOM’s at what can sometime…
What do you do with all those beautiful clothes when your baby grows out of them…how about a memory quilt. When my granddaughter, Izzy, was a toddler, my daughter couldn’t bare to part with her baby clothes so scooped them up and handed them to me to make a ‘keepsake’. Izzys baby clothes…. plus a…
Before I begin let me first tell you that I first published this as a how to/this is how I did it document on the UKQU Facebook group approximately 2 years or so ago. I had some great feedback at the time and then promptly forgot all about it! Recently Juliet contacted me and asked me…
Hello and thanks for stopping by again and taking the time to read the news and views from my quilting world. How do you organise your quilting projects? In an effort make inroads into my own, along side my longarm quilting and involvement in Project Linus ( as well as reducing the volume of post…
Hi Everyone, thanks for giving up some of your time to come back to read my blog. I survived the first one relatively unscathed and received some lovely comments, thank you to everyone who took the time to leave a comment or send me a message. This time I thought I might tell you about…
With the quilt appeal for the Grenfell Tower tragedy coming to a close, it’s given me time to think about what being charitable means within the quilting community and the good it can bring. Certainly sewing for a good cause is not something new. While many feel sewing is good for the soul, it also…
Now Christmas is over I can get down to the important things in life – quilting! As much as I enjoy Christmas and seeing the family (a lot!) it does get in the way of everything else quilty going on. Since starting my quilting journey, I have tried several techniques and quilting related arty things.…
Cushion and Quilt from Recycled Shirts One of the questions I was asked recently was whether patchwork and quilting was expensive. As with everything we do, it’s up to us. It can be very expensive but, on the other hand, it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that quilts used…
Hello and welcome! I’m Marjorie Cook and I am thrilled to be part of this new on line resource for quilting. I live on the border of North Yorkshire and County Durham, from where I have run my quilting and longarm quilting business (Amore Quilts & Cottage Crafts) for the last 8 years. However, I…
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…
Christine Hutchins
Juliet Nice
Jane Galley
Lyn Butler
Elizabeth Goldsworthy
MARJORIE COOK
Carol Munro
Amy Watson
Nicola Manton
Helen Kent