UK Quilters
Sylvia – the lady responsible for the UKQU Website put a challenge out to us Bloggers for some new patterns and blogs with flowers as the subject. A specific flower would be allocated to us as individuals…. now that’s just too much of a temptation for me, flowers, nature, colourful etc etc etc so I…
As promised, or threatened, the October book in the UKQU book club is another quilting mystery book. It is called The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse and is the first book in the Cats in Trouble Mystery series of eight books featuring Lillian Hart who makes quilts for a living. The books are written by…
With the days getting shorter, I’ve lined up a few quilting mystery books for the next few months. Starting us off is Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery, by Elizabeth Craig. The book is available as Kindle eBook and second hand paperbacks from a variety of suppliers online. It may also be worth checking your…
I have the privilege of offering the Mystery Quilt BOM’s for the UKQU members……. we’re on our 6th!! ‘An English County Garden’ is the name of the Mystery Quilt BOM running at the moment, we’re half way through, but its never too late to join us?!!! Its quite difficult for me to describe how fabulous…
This is a tale I found in a very old book dated around 1364. I discovered the volume holding up a back leg of an old sideboard in a deceased relatives house, in the old fishing port of Whitby. It was very tatty and musty smelling, with many small nibbles, mould and fungi sprouting out…
Happy Birthday to the United Kingdom Quilters United website, it has been a whole year since the website became live, with almost 553,000 hits – views for the period January 9th 2018 to January 9th 2019- over the first year, what a success. I have been blogging for them since the start and what a…
Hello Everybody!! I’m the one lucky enough to be designing the Mystery Quilt!!! (I’m also the one the poor site admins have been struggling with, techno-hopeless is me!!) I’m also the one with very cerise hair, or possibly rainbow hair, depends on the day and the show, I think some of you may well know…
Just a few words of introduction to the Mystery Quilt I’ve been honoured to design & make for you….. It’s title, “A Colourful Outlook On Life”, hopefully tells of colour and joy, achievement & creativity in the making. We’re very lucky to be using Makower Fabrics, the range being Linen Texture. They’re all plain colours,…
