UK Quilters
I was totally overwhelmed by the number of people who liked the mini quilt I made for the UKQU Spring 2018 Mini Quilt Swap. I received dozens of comments and Facebook messages asking if I had bought the pattern or if I had designed it myself. It has been so popular that I have been…
The day at last has arrived – and what a scorcher it is set to be. Rather inopportune to be releasing a Christmas pattern in the middle of a heatwave but you never can tell with an English summer. Ta-da!! I give you the cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL quilt pattern. Herbs and flowers are covering…
Just over 3 years ago a friend of mine a fellow crafter of cards and paper goods, had her wish come true in opening a little shop that another friend of mine was looking to rent out. To help her out and get the shop ready and stocked with items ready for opening, I was…
Way back last December, I was given the chance to work with the 2018 Christmas range of Makower fabrics. The brief was to design a quilt that could be run as a Block of the Month (BOM) or Mystery Quilt. Now I know a lot of you love your Mystery Quilts, but I can’t get…
Yep, that was football and hexagons in the same sentence! If you have been really bored, you may have found out that a typical football consists of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I say ‘typical’ football, as the older ones were made up of rectangular-ish shapes and the latest one used for the World Cup…
Having followed Jenny Haynes of Papper, Sax, Sten since she started out in earnest in the United Kingdom, I was more than excited to be given a set of her acrylic templates and some luscious Oakshott fabrics. I was less excited when I realised which pattern she wanted me to use…. Curves always fill me…
First, let me thank the wonderful people at EQS: https://www.eqsuk.com/ for being so kind as to provide these products for us to test, on behalf of the United Kingdom Quilters Website. The product I am reviewing is the Artisan Apron by Janet Clare, it retails from her Esty page at £11.99. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/184039707/artisan-apron-pattern-make-and-embellish The presentation of…
There’s nothing nicer on these cold, dark evenings than snuggling up on the sofa, under a quilt, in front of an open fire with a good book. Or in my case, Kindle. I struggle to hand sew in poor light, so this time of year I tend to either read or do other handicrafts in…
I am always in awe of new piecing techniques that actually seem so simple you’re amazed someone hadn’t thought of it years ago! One of my favourites is piecing patchwork blocks together and then cutting them up to create a whole new block, and perhaps the most popular of these is the disappearing nine-patch. The…
