UK Quilters
I was going to write about making Half-Square Triangles and the blocks using them that we have been making in our classes this month, but I got side-tracked by some of my students and a few beginners in the Facebook Groups asking about cutting and how to work out what to cut and how big…
16 or 17 years ago I went on a jewellery making taster session at the Bead & Button Bazaar in Earlswood Lake Craft Centre and found that I had quite a passion for it. After a while I was lucky enough to be offered an opportunity to facilitate a class (or two) for knotted and…
Um… February, still dark mornings/evenings. I’m not up for attempting a large project quite yet. So, I’m working on using up some scraps. I’m thinking scrappy strips. A quick delve in my scrap bag for some greens. I’m thinking my little project will look good if I keep to one colour family. I’m cutting strips…
After my introduction to all the beautiful fabrics available (see my first blog if you haven’t read it already), I realised this passion for quilting was beginning to seriously develop and I started to think about how to extend my knowledge. Up to this point, I’d felt quilting was quite a solitary hobby – I…
Australia is a country rich in both flora and fauna. I wanted to celebrate this and make a wallhanging for my husband’s birthday. Firstly, I started with a piece of plain white homespun and thought about the light and shadows. I mixed watercolour paint with textile medium and painted diagonal bars of slanting light ad…
I’ve been quilting since 1992, after seeing wonderful quilts made by friends and neighbours when I worked in Japan, and stitching sashiko since New Year 2000. Although my background is originally in Fine Art and stage design, I’ve had several changes of career direction and started designing and teaching patchwork, quilting and sashiko in 2001. …
Seeing the beautiful Japanese fabrics at the Edinburgh Quilt Show in 2015 was the trigger point that inspired my passion for patchwork and quilting. How could I possibly resist working with these fabulous fabrics? I’m Val Brooks, born in Abingdon too many years ago to remember, and I learnt to sew at school by an inspirational…
Chris Franses
Ruth Garner
Joy Morgan
Val Brooks
Sue Griffiths
Susan Briscoe