UK Quilters
The Saturday morning girls are always quick to adopt new ideas and find pretty much everything we do (except hand sewing) really exciting. Lola chose to work from the picture of St Basil’s Basilica and the other 4 decided to use the picture of the Dead Sea. Just to remind you, the girls’ challenge was…
My Mum’s 70th birthday was coming up and she had planned a weeks stay in a beautiful house overlooking the Menai Bridge in north Wales. My Brother and his family, our close friends and my own family all together and, as a quilter, I just had to make something to commemorate her birthday and the…
Miranda Rowlands Quilt “Celebration: Nigeria meets Australia in a burst of Colour” winner of the first ever Quilt Africa Fabrics Challenge. Since it was introduced to the shores of Africa in 1846 by the Dutch, African prints have come to represent the culture, history, tradition and way of life of not just one group of…
Hi there, I want to talk about UFO’S or PHD’S! (UnFinished Object or Project Half Done) Do you have any? Do you have many? Are you a serial starter? Well I seem to have lots, and I’m going to ‘come out’ to you all here and now with photo’s. Now I possibly/probably have more than…
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for ways to improve my own techniques. Precise cutting is important to make sure what you see in your head translates to the quilt you are making and Clover are known for making specialist templates to help us with both our piecing and quilting. There’s…
Love a magazine now and again? Or fancy trying a new magazine with a different point of view? Well Spring is in the air and the sun is in the sky (as if you couldn’t tell) If nothing else, you could get a magazine to fan yourself with! Here are some current offers to get…
I didn’t realise that there was going to be a Part 2 to this, but there you go – sometimes these things creep up on you. As I have said before, I am such an amazingly fortunate person to be earning my living teaching patchwork and quilting. One of the things that I love best…
With the growth of social media, it has become so much easier to share our creative masterpieces. This can be a good thing as it can lead to inspiration but it can also have a negative effect. Have you looked at an amazing quilt and then thought, I could never do that! For many, just…
Last month I visited the V&A museum. I especially wanted to see the Winnie the Pooh exhibition (a tad disappointing), I saw the Ocean Liners exhibition – more interesting than I expected! Most unusually for me, I took advantage of one of the museum’s guided tours. I am not a guided tour type of person,…
The cross stitched name through the middle of this cushion I made many years ago for my youngest daughter, who at the time lived at home and the plan was to have it framed, trying to work it out it has to be 15 or more years. Alas the framing plan didn’t materialise and she…
