UK Quilters
I hate anything going to waste and that included patchwork blocks. When I was doing some pattern testing for the Sew A Row Fire Quilt, I ended up with two blocks that weren’t used. They’d been sitting in the bottom of the box and I just had to do something with them. I couldn’t let…
The Annual FART [for those who are already wondering .. Fabric Aquisition Road Trip] happens every September for the Sewing Group I am part of. This year Our Quilty Pleasures decided to check out the delights of Scarborough in East Yorkshire. Nothing to do with the Scarborough Sewing Centre being the main attraction of course…
Busman’s Holiday, that’s the term, isn’t it? This July I had a week off, relaxing in the sun, a little vino and time with the family. Then I realised that Jen Jones has announced that she is retiring and is holding the last exhibition at the Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter so I squeezed in…
My daughter wanted rid of a tub chair and asked if I would like it, not one to refuse a freebie, I gratefully accepted to take it off her hands…I had a plan! I have always loved patchwork chairs but never upholstered before. Always up for a challenge I studied a few YouTubes and…
Day two at FOQ dawned bright and early. We stumbled down to breakfast at our hotel and enjoyed a frugal banquet of cereals, scrambled egg and tomatoes, looking longingly at the bacon and sausage. Being on a diet has to be obeyed even whilst we are out enjoying the phenomenon of the Festival of Quits.…
Hello Patch workers I am taking a break from the City and Guilds blogs for this one as we went on a little camping break last week. This blog is to present another idea for sewing on the move. Like many mums I spend time sitting around waiting on the little darlings as they swim,…
Welcome back for the second of my final pieces. I had to make a 3D Functional Object. This could have been a bag but if you do that then you can not make a bag for the accessory final piece. I was not sure if that is what I wanted to do so I went…
Hi, I’m Devi and have been invited to contribute a blog or tutorial. This blog/tutorial first appeared on my website at the end of last year and may have been seen by a few of you already. Since writing it people with far more experience of quilting that I have told me that the method…
Perfect points make your patchwork look so great. It’s what we all want, but how do you achieve it? Read on – and download a free summary or a free one-page try-out pattern if you would like to keep this for future reference. Catherine Wheel – pattern available from my Shop Pressing diagonal seams It…
Having taken part in all three previous swaps I think the waiting for your partners details it a very long nerve wracking wait, there is no possible way of forward planning as I will have no idea of their likes and dislikes. Up pops the email with my swapee’s likes, dislikes, all listed for me…
I’m a quilter, a knitter, a sewer (that is a sewing person, not the thing that carries sewage away), a quilter, a crocheter, a pianist, a flautist, a wife, a step-mother, a foster carer, a grandmother (I prefer being known as nanny) – there are so many different aspects to me. Each of us can…
The sun keeps shining (hopefully it’ll stay that way!), flowers blooming, birds tweeting away. The summer is arriving at long last we think. Longer lighter evenings give us much more time to sew, and you can even do it on the go whilst you’re on your summer holidays with some English Paper Piecing. If astronaut…
