UK Quilters
Used under license from Adobe Stock Photos. Little did I know when, we, the bloggers of UKQU were set a task of doing a blog based on a flower and that a few weeks later the world would learn that the Sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine, and their national colours are blue and…
Hello everyone, my name is Carol and love quilting. I joined a local group, Quilty Pleasures, and one of the earliest attempts at quilting involved making some Fidget quilts to donate to local Residential Care Homes and some Developmental Hearts for the Hospital special care baby unit. These appealled to my ‘inner creative being’ and…
There are three main ways to copy a design onto your fabric: Tracing the design onto the fabric from a paper copy. This must be done before layering. Drawing the design through the gaps in a stencil (purchased or home-made). Can be done before or after layering. Drawing around a solid template (purchased, home-made from…
The quilting design needs to be marked onto your fabric, so that you can see where to stitch. The ideal marker is one which shows a clear line until you have quilted along it, but then completely disappears! Inevitably, this is not always simple to achieve, so it is a good idea to test out…
Pattern: Beth Ferrier – “A Fine Romance” Pattern: Esther Aliu, “On My Window Flowers Bloom” Confession time. I now have four applique projects on the go (plus one that is sewn but needs hand quilting) and I’m having a very hard job holding off starting another two. I like hand sewing, though until recently I…
I’d heard of freezer paper (FP) but didn’t quite know how to use it so I was a little perplexed as where to start. The box gave me some examples of how I could use it for appliqué and a web search brought up a plethora of tutorials on the internet, including a few for…
