UK Quilters
How can you tell which fabrics are ‘light’, which are ‘medium’ and which ‘dark’, let alone ‘light-medium’ or ‘medium-dark’ or any of the other variations you may have come across? If you are using a monochrome range of fabrics then this may be fairly easy – in both the green Trip Around the World and…
I hate anything going to waste and that included patchwork blocks. When I was doing some pattern testing for the Sew A Row Fire Quilt, I ended up with two blocks that weren’t used. They’d been sitting in the bottom of the box and I just had to do something with them. I couldn’t let…
I have made several Thread Catchers over the past years and non of them have been that successful. When I saw this idea on the main Facebook page, I just had to make one….. it is really cheap, and easy to make and it works! I asked Yvonne Kearton if I could ‘steal’ her…
From time to time our UKQU Website shop owners offer valuable advice for us. Stephen from Aberdeen Sewing Machines has this for us all this week to explain an important aspect of sewing machine technology. [and there’s a flash sale over at their website too for their Pfaff machines.. you heard it first here]. Why IDT? One of…
Introducing Denise .. our vlogger .. direct from her hospital bed no less. This girl means business!
Have you ever stitched the pieces of your block together, looked at it, and wondered why it doesn’t look right? When assembling blocks, the small units are assembled into rows first, and the rows are then joined together. You have probably turned one of the small units (or even a whole row) around while doing…
I’m making two postcards, and it’s hard to see how they’ll work out: So, I cut out a 6×4-inch window to get a better idea before I go any further: It helps me to visualise how it will turn out. It’s simple, but it works:)
The sun is shining as I write and holidays are approaching. I sew virtually every day and when going on holiday I just can’t go without taking something with me be it a little kit or a full project. But how to take your fabrics and notions without packing way too much? Something I’ve been…
I’ve just been cutting rather a lot of strips all the same size to make a mini Bargello and I thought it might be helpful if I showed you how I manage to remember to place the ruler in the right place each time. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve miscut because…
Hi, I’m Devi and have been invited to contribute a blog or tutorial. This blog/tutorial first appeared on my website at the end of last year and may have been seen by a few of you already. Since writing it people with far more experience of quilting that I have told me that the method…
From time to time we post information from the manufacturers and distributors. This article is taken from Barnyarns own website. As you might be aware, they are a regular supporter of our website, and usually seen on the exhibition circuit where you can chat with Callum and the team. Even better, there’s a UKQU.co.uk discount…
The funny thing about things that you know is that you think everyone else know them too! Last week I packaged and sent of some wadding to a fellow blogger and when it arrived she got in touch to say what a great idea it had been to tie it up with a selvedge and…
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