UK Quilters
Ginkgo Feather is a variation on the Ginkgo Grid, it is a intermediate / advance tutorial. I created this in two colours and it is great for Whole Cloth quilts or a small to large blank space in your quilts, sides of your bags. Enjoy, have fun . Subscribe to my channel, it is free. …
If you enjoyed the first video showing howto graffiti FMQ then you will love the second part of the Graffiti Sampler with lots of different stitches for FMQ Enjoy have fun https://youtu.be/FI8xw0d_3kY
Lots of us aspire to FMQ to decorate our piecing, and you know its not always easy, but so long as you are happy with what you achieve then thats enough! However, sometimes its know where to start. This video of Graffiti stiches will refresh you with all the stitches you have learnt from my…
2 weeks before Christmas back in 202I decided to write a Christmas story for my grandsons, who were staying from the 21st. Aged 6 and 4 I couldn’t find a story I thought they would like, a story that had a few more words and less pictures to the page. So I decide to write…
She sat looking at the bleak view; the rain, bucketing down the windows. She mused that the rain was in as much of a hurry to fall as she was to finish this year. This year had not been as full and she felt terribly empty. Her usual calendar of coffees, meet ups, Stitcher Group…
Okay, confession time, my name is Carol not Katy but growing up my Mum and Dad always called me Katy but never actually explained why! My mum passed away recently and subconsciously my memory has been flashing back to things she’d said and done over the years. Some of those memories are that, and even…
Some shapes can be really tricky to draw and, when designing projects, a little help can be invaluable. I have several sets of these wonderful template sets from Sew Easy and Groves very kindly sent me the mini Star and mini Heart sets to trial for them. Sew Easy Mini Hearts Set These are sets…
My sewing has been in the doldrums for months and months – a combination of a lack of enthusiasm, a lack of inspiration and a 9 month old granddaughter (who is wonderful!). My sewjo had gone completely AWOL! About 2 years ago I had the mad idea that I wanted to make a rainbow quilt. …
It’s always great to try a new product, especially when you haven’t used it inside your normal ‘sewing zone’, but when UKQU.co.uk linked me up with Vlieseline and they sent me 5 products to review, I must admit I was a little stumped as to what I would be able to make with them. With…
As promised, or threatened, the October book in the UKQU book club is another quilting mystery book. It is called The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse and is the first book in the Cats in Trouble Mystery series of eight books featuring Lillian Hart who makes quilts for a living. The books are written by…
With the days getting shorter, I’ve lined up a few quilting mystery books for the next few months. Starting us off is Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery, by Elizabeth Craig. The book is available as Kindle eBook and second hand paperbacks from a variety of suppliers online. It may also be worth checking your…
Entering the first large sized quilt I ever made into the Festival of Quilts 2019 was an experience. As a newbie quilter, I think if I had realised the grandeur and the prestige of the competition and the enormity of the event, I might have been too intimidated to enter it. Luckily, ignorance is bliss…
Sandra Pearson
Judith Clarke
Keren Baker
Carol Lightburn
Helen Kent
Bartysmam
Nina
Katherine Elizabeth Clark