UK Quilters
Well, the shout went out for anyone interested in taking part in a sew-a-row where you had to design the row, sew the row and write up the pattern for it. After taking part in a sew-a-row a few years ago and enjoying every minute of it I just knew that this was for me.…
With UK’s biggest and most visited quilt show, the Festival of Quilt, just around the corner we have added a few new UKQU merchandise to our shops including key rings, tote bags and car stickers. If you rather make your own things, we have FREE patterns for you to make the UKQU logo in two…
Yep, that was football and hexagons in the same sentence! If you have been really bored, you may have found out that a typical football consists of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I say ‘typical’ football, as the older ones were made up of rectangular-ish shapes and the latest one used for the World Cup…
There’s nothing nicer on these cold, dark evenings than snuggling up on the sofa, under a quilt, in front of an open fire with a good book. Or in my case, Kindle. I struggle to hand sew in poor light, so this time of year I tend to either read or do other handicrafts in…
Following the success with the enamel badges, which you can find in Juliet’s shop, we are now excited to share with you our latest UKQU merchandise – the patterns for you to make your own logo in two different techniques – appliqué and foundation paper piecing. Appliqué pattern We have two files available for the…
We’ve all been there; in the local or online quilt group, ‘Look what I made’, ‘Oh, that’s lovely, can I have a copy of the pattern?’ When we’ve only just started, and let’s face it – it’s not a cheap hobby, it’s so tempting to take a copy if offered and add it to our…
