UK Quilters
Last month I burbled on about the Rail Fence design and how different it could look if you used strips of different widths instead of the usual equal ones. But I couldn’t just leave it there and went on with my playing around. What if, I thought, I added squares to the corners? All corners?…
There are thousands upon thousands of envelopes used every day, for business and personal use and a vast array of envelopes of every colour and size. They’ve certainly come a long way since they were first used as earliest records say that the Ancient Chinese and the Babylonian’s used clay to protect messages. Around 2,000…
Welcome to the first block of our month-by-month Puzzle Quilt. As explained in previous posts the idea of a puzzle quilt is to make two (or more) identical blocks but move the colours around so the blocks look completely different – the puzzle being to find the pairs. Each month the blocks will introduce you…
Those of you who have persevered with my ramblings here over the last few years (yes, it really is more than two!) will have realised that I enjoy footling about (as my mother used to call it) with pencil and paper or, these days, the computer. I like to take a traditional design and tweak…
I feel we all probably need something to sew, something to keep our minds and fingers occupied while locked down, in a high tier or whatever, wherever, we happen to be at the moment. To which end I have dug out the worksheets for the Puzzle Quilt class I should have been teaching at The…
Like most this year my family had some celebrations planned. My son’s 18th in the first lockdown, our Silver Wedding anniversary in July and then, my own big 5 0 in the second lockdown. This time last year I would never have believed we would be putting off big celebrations until 2021. The advantage is…
Makower have always been a great source of fabulous patterns, like this lovely Stripes and Plaids designed by Alison Glass using her own Kaleidoscope fabric. Everyone loves a rainbow quilt and this one is a real star. Download the instructions and create your own version.
From time to time the website features designs from some of the fabric manufacturers and designers we know and love. Take your colour mixing cues from Kaffe Fasset in this eye-catching, exciting quilt featured on the Freespirit website. . Simple triangles are sewn together in pairs, so construction is easy, but take care not to…
Sometimes we just like to have a go at something different don’t we. Like this fabulous little Tomte Gnome from Makower. It’s one of their patterns that has been around a while, but somehow it never seems to age. This little Gnome could be holding open our doors to welcome Santa in for many…
PAINTED FLOWER 2 I designed this PAINTED 3D FLOWER to give everyone a chance to do a form of Trapunto Quilting. There is a worksheet on UKQU web site. IT IS FREE TO DOWN LOAD Trapunto is a way of making your blocks appear 3D . You need to make up your blocks any block…
I’m not one to shy away from a challenge, and so I jumped at the chance to be part of the UKQU blog hop – especially when the theme was flowers. I instantly knew what flowers I would choose – tulips. The inspiration for my flowers and leaves came from bobbin lace making. Back in…
Hawaiian Inspired Flower Block. Hawaiian Inspired Flower Block Another brilliant idea from UKQU – a Flower Blog Hop. A trip from one blog to another but for us quilters with a fabulously free flower block at every stop! What could be better for us than sharing our passion for patterns… When the call went out…
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