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Hello and welcome to the third part of the UKQU Sewing Challenge; a challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create other things than quilts, such as for example garments, accessories, or things for the home. Please read on to find out what the next challenge is. I am not sure…
Hello and welcome back to the UKQU Sewing Challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create garments, accessories, things for the home and perhaps also something for charity. Please read on to find out what the second challenge is. For our end of summer / early autumn challenge I am keen…
Hello and welcome to the UKQU Sewing Challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create garments, accessories, things for the home and perhaps also something for charity. We’ll be embarking on various types of sewing projects which may challenge some of us, but hopefully still be lots of fun. Best of…
We’re a month into the year already – well, we will be by the time you read this, it will be a month. Did you see posts about people trying to decide what their word for the year was going to be? Well, this year I decided to join the bandwagon. I thought that perhaps…
Challenge accepted and I get given the landmark, Houses of Parliament. Thinking cap on and was certain that what I make I would use and not put to the back of a cupboard or in a drawer never to be seen again. The decision to make a clock was a very quick one and with…
Challenge accepted and I get given the landmark, Houses of Parliament. Thinking cap on and I was certain that what I make I would use and not put to the back of a cupboard or in a drawer never to be seen again. The decision to make a clock was a very quick one and…
I’m not one to shy away from a challenge. Once I left teaching, my husband and I came to the decision that we would become foster carers. We approached a fostering agency, having been recommended by friends of ours. When fostering for an agency, the children we tend to look after are those who are…
Last time I told you about my visit to the Art Couture exhibition. Of course a Textile artist needs some new fabrics! I love to participate in the Cherrywood Challenge. In 2018 in the Prince Challenge. Here I am in Houston at the Quiltfestival where I got to sign the Prince books. In the 2019…
When issued the challenge to use a song title as inspiration for a quilt I thought that it sounded an interesting idea. I’d not done one before so popped my name into the mix. Then Sylvia gave me the title! I began to investigate the song and, although it’s one that everyone will have heard,…
I really liked the song title I was given all those months ago, when I thought the challenge and idea was something I could get my teeth into. After all, I knew I had the perfect fabric somewhere in my stash. As soon as I saw the title, I knew what I wanted to do,…
The first day back of the New Year at the quilt group I’m a member of is an exciting time! The Christmas Challenge reveal has become a definite date on the calendar. The previous year’s winner sets the challenge which has been in many different formats from a ‘star’ block including a particular fabric, a…
Miranda Rowlands Quilt “Celebration: Nigeria meets Australia in a burst of Colour” winner of the first ever Quilt Africa Fabrics Challenge. Since it was introduced to the shores of Africa in 1846 by the Dutch, African prints have come to represent the culture, history, tradition and way of life of not just one group of…
