UK Quilters
Shop, learn and be inspired at The Stitch Festival! Taking place at the Business Design Centre from 23rd – 26th March 2023, expect to be inspired by quirky textile displays, shop from your favourite craft and textile suppliers, learn a new skill in fun workshops and enter their dressmaking competition! We have FIVE…
Are you planning to visit the Festival of Quilts this year. Between the 18th until the 21st August the event of the year will be stretched across the Halls at the NEC, Birmingham, showing some of the best quilts from the UK and beyond. Many of you will be exhibiting, and many of you will…
Tilda Scrap Bundles Tilda fabric is known for quality fabric, soft to handle, and lovely to work with. They have come up with a great stash builder in their pretty Ten FQ Scrap Bundles which they create from whatever they have left at the end of fulfilling retailers’ orders. It’s always going to be a…
When Clover asked Resolution (my video company) to create a series of explainer videos to showcase their fantastic range of notions we were really excited. We asked Stuart Hillard to work with us – he is a dream presenter for any company and really does understand the craft. Stuart designed this lovely little humbag bag…
Our friends at the Festival of Quilts really are hoping for a great event this year after having to cancel everything in 2020. I am sure many of us will still be reticent about attending but there’s still time to submit an entry for the Quilt Competition. Don’t be put off by thinking your…
Have you ever thought about designing your own quilt patterns or creating your own block design. Electric Quilts have the perfect software for you. There are loads of new ideas created by their users right here too. We are happy to announce that the lovely people at Electric Quilts have given this lovely website a…
As we all now know, The 2020 Festival of Quilts will switch to an online format to accommodate as many of the annual quilting events and competitions as possible. To celebrate this event, Vlieseline has created a Quilt-along project to engage quilters and crafters in lockdown during the weeks leading up to FOQ. Vlieseline has…
Hi everyone Time for an update on a few things I think. I feel as though I have been neglecting you all a little as I have been so busy, and life sometimes gets in the way of doing what you really want to. So with no more ado let’s move onward. World Quilts Would…
And the winner of this trip to the Quilt Festival held annually at Noord Gronigen in Holland 11-14 June 2020 arranged by courtesy of ECT Travel is Helen Keegan! Congratulations! Marjan and Rob Ruitenberg launched the Quilt festival Noord Groningen in 2010 out of their shared passion for quilting. Nine years on, it has…
Home from Festival of Quilts and the airwaves are positively humming! There are lots of topics of conversation, but the one that has leapt out at me is the thorny issue of Categories. I thought I could write about this – a bit about the why and a bit about the category definitions, and what…
