UK Quilters
Welcome to 2019. I hope you are feeling inspired after your Christmas celebrations and ready to start the new Stitching year. I usually start off the new year by trying to finish one U.F.O. But I’m afraid this year I have so many new projects running through my head that I haven’t even looked to…
The first day back of the New Year at the quilt group I’m a member of is an exciting time! The Christmas Challenge reveal has become a definite date on the calendar. The previous year’s winner sets the challenge which has been in many different formats from a ‘star’ block including a particular fabric, a…
Here we are again my Quilting Friends at the end of another year. And it’s been a really productive year for me. Not only have I been Blogging here once a month, I have also created my very own Blog Joyofquilting. http://joyofquilting.blog  It’s been the year of the steep learning curve for me. The Quilting bit…
Hands up, for those that hate Christmas, it is okay to say ME. I do, I hate it with a passion. What do I hate about it? • The sense of profound loneliness despite being in a room full of people • Loneliness • The extreme demand placed upon you by others to be happy…
What a beautiful selection of fabrics in this lovely range by Makower UK, Dragonheart. Sure to be a success. The images on the fabric are so appealing. The quality of the fabric and the vibrancy of the colours have to be seen. I knew as soon as I saw the dragons, little knights and…
I can’t thank you enough for your comments and messages following my last blog post. It struck a chord with some who were feeling the same way. It made it so much easier to meet them and virtual hugs turned to hugs in person. Arriving early meant I go to an almost empty sewing room…
When my friends asked me two weeks ago if I was making all my Xmas presents I jokingly said : ‘in August I decided to make everyone I love a gift for Xmas but in November I decided I only loved one person’…. It was funny, and it had tickled me when I read the joke…
How do I explain? Christmas is coming and I have blown up my cooker! All because of my quilting addiction. I’ll start at the beginning. EQ8 released 28/10/17 It was my birthday recently and I’ve been after a quilt design software package for a while. I’d like to use the excuse of working on British…
Otherwise entitled – We all turn into our mothers (and fathers). This is likely to be a bit of a marmite post – it will probably provoke some extreme views. I don’t mean for this post to offend anyone, and I realise that not everyone will have the same experience of this. I also appreciate…
A Christmas Gift for those in need. This month’s gift is a gift to charity. Or to a friend or loved one. Like most quilt groups ours often get involved in making charity quilts. We have made Quilts for Linus, Latch, Prem babies, Angel Babies, Fish & Chip Babies, Old Age and that’s just off…
Wales is one of the Regions of the UK with a particularly strong tradition of patchwork and quilting. As part of the recent British Quilt Study Group seminar, I was able to view some of the wonderful collection of Welsh quilts held at St Fagans near Cardiff. Although we saw some beautiful wholecloth quilts too,…
This list assumes some basic knowledge of fabric, sewing and sewing machines. It is not exhaustive but is intended to be useful for those just starting out on Patchwork and Quilting. PATCHWORKING (verb) The joining together of pieces of fabric by either hand or machine sewing to make larger pieces of fabric. The fabric used…
