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Hi Everybody!! Where does the time go? Hard to believe I’m sat here writing this on New Years Day 2024! Hope you’ve all had a fabulous 2023 patchwork and quilting? It wouldn’t be New Year for me if I didn’t have a new Mystery Quilt BOM (block of the month) due to start this month, so…
So, guess what! This is the first time ever, in my whole life, that I have written a blog. It’s exciting (for me at least) and, with a bit of luck and a following wind, enjoyable for you. Shall I tell you a tiny bit about me? I’m a crafter! I’ve been crafting, one…
Bondaweb from Vlieseline is a mainstay for appliqué in patchwork and I recently had a project that needed just this product. One of my ladies that joins me on a Friday for my Sit and Sew classes was attending a Christmas craft fair to help raise funds for the charity NOWZAD. They are working in…
The Design Pro Applique Mat has been designed with a specialised surface to keep your applique templates and pieces in place to prevent slipping while fusing. Measuring 11.6″ x 16.5″ the mat is see-through to allow for repeated use even with fusible materials and includes a Teflon pressing sheet – so is it worth the…
Hi All! Just thought I’d scribble a quick update having attended my first main quiltshow since, well, a long time ago!! It was so much fun to be back out there and teaching again, 6 workshops a day for 3 days – lots of new and old faces, lots of natterings and laughter and a…
I love a Block of the Month – I mean, I REALLY love them. I will confess to having several on the go at the moment, and one of them is Girl’s Day Out. I saw this advertised on the Villavin Crafts Facebook page, and I knew at once that I wanted to do it.…
On UKQU we love to provide different ideas using different techniques for quilters and crafters out there so every now and again we have a challenge. As Spring is around the corner we thought we’d re-visit flowers. Hawaiian Staycation We did flowers before in 2020 and, as I’d been playing around with Hawaiian quilting at…
I’ve been having a sort out of my cupboards and finding all sorts of half-finished, or even barely-started bits and pieces left over from 30-odd years of teaching. My most recent find has been a bag full of applique bits some of which may have featured in a previous blog here a few years back.…
Sylvia – the lady responsible for the UKQU Website put a challenge out to us Bloggers for some new patterns and blogs with flowers as the subject. A specific flower would be allocated to us as individuals…. now that’s just too much of a temptation for me, flowers, nature, colourful etc etc etc so I…
Hello All! I know I say this every time I write a blog, but where does the time go?? (……having fun completing a mystery BOM perhaps?) It’s just about March already, hopefully we’re all still safe after germs & storms? Quite possibly owners of more fabulous pieces of patchwork & quilting items? 10 months ago…
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…
A special child needs a special present – here’s an idea for a personalised and unusual gift which will be useful for years. This card hanger can string along a wall, or over a door, and because an alphabet is included, you can add any name you want. A video course is now available, showing…
