UK Quilters
You have been thinking about starting a hobby during lockdown maybe, searched through endless Facebook pages and suddenly you jump into UK Quilters United. WOW . what a different world to discover. What a plethora of new things to learn, words to understand, techniques to discover and more. It’s mind-blowing. But, remember, we all started…
Janome UK launch The BIG JANOME Skill Share with Jenni Smith The aim, together with Jenni is to create more quilters in the world and to celebrate the pride and joy that comes when you share a skill with another person. This collaboration is a development of Jenni Smith’s ‘Just One Quilt’ campaign https://www.janome.co.uk/just-one-quilt…
You may already have seen a couple of blogs written by Carol Lightburn on a new shop featured on the UKQU website, Panico’s. I’m lucky enough for this shop to be my Local Quilt Shop which I visit on a regular basis. Imagine my delight then when Carl, having found out that I blogged for…
I would like to thank Gütermann and the UKQU website for asking me to test and review the Gütermann Creativ Overlock thread, Bulky – Lock 80 multicolour colour 9957. Information found here directly from their website; https://consumer.guetermann.com/en/product-finder/bulky-lock-80 . They are sold in plain or variegated multicoloured reels. Overlockers or sergers as known in the USA,…
Yes, you read that perfectly correctly. The Great Janome Giveaway .. Part One The lovely people at Janome have given us FOUR Janome M100 QDC Sewing Machines to give away! [Quilt and thread not included – picture for illustration only] During March, June, September and finally in December we will re-set the counter here on this…
Have you ever wanted to enter one of your own quilts into an Exhibition? We asked you all this back in April, and wow .. did you ever. So many beautiful quilts have been entered, and once we have heard from November’s final winner we will bring them all together for you to enjoy here. …
This summer we bought half a static caravan – our daughter and her family own the other half. Despite comments from friends about which side was ours we have already had some fantastic weekends away both with and without the Grandchildren helping Granma and Grandad enjoy them. Our little haven of relaxation is set up…
I was delighted when Stephen at Aberdeen Sewing Machines (https://www.aberdeensewing.com) produced the Janome Atelier 9 for me to review, I have to admit I’m not a huge fan of Janome sewing machines, but Stephen was determined that I would change my opinion with this one. We shall see! Janome Atelier 9 The machine came in…
