UK Quilters
Would you like to try new techniques? Do you need a bit of inspiration and perhaps a plan for your quilting? Do you usually get bored after making two or three blocks of the same design? Can you commit to making monthly for a year? Joining a quilting bee, might be right for you! How…
One of the thrills of being asked to review a product is that you’re never quite sure what will be coming in the post. The last thought that went through my mind was that I hoped it wasn’t a thimble! Now, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against thimbles. I have need of them…
A friend of mine has been following advice from Pat Sloan (she is one of the ladies who is responsible for The Splendid Sampler), about using starters and enders. She starts with squares of 2.5 inches, and starts and ends her patchwork sewing with this – this helps to save thread, and makes chain piecing…
On a rather dull and wet Saturday in February, I set of with a car full of ladies to Fremingtom, North Devon. Why you might ask, Well Crosspatch Quilters were hosting a Doughty’s Fabric Roadshow. Crosspatch Quilters have been meeting in North Devon for over 30 years and have around 36 active members at present.…
Or that could be ‘Snowy Day Ramblings’? Down here in Cornwall we get very excited at snow, we’re strange that way, we see so little!! It gently, silently, fell from the grey, laid around and made even the un-pretty look pretty and gave me a perfect day for quilting!! (the snow lasted all of about…
Silesian Quilt is a company based in Poland and is owned by Margaret Lehman, she offered to send me some of her ruler templates to review for the website. I had no idea what she was going to send me, but waited patiently for their arrival. When the box of https://ukqu.co.uk/shop/uncategorized/free-motion-quilting-grip-5 arrived I couldn’t help but smile,…
TEMPLATE MAKING These need to be accurately made from either rigid plastic or cardboard. Template plastic is not expensive and worth the investment as the template will last longer and remain accurate. Cardboard can become ‘fluffy’ at the edges with use. Some shops will sell template plastic by the sheet. Check if the templates you…
We have some great News to bring you about the wonderful collaboration of your favourite UK website, UKQU and British Patchwork and Quilting magazine. British Patchwork and Quilting magazine has been at the forefront of the Patchwork and Quilting movement in the UK for over 30 years and is the UK’s longest running quilting magazine.…
Seven years of teaching, running my own patchwork shop and being daily surrounded by quilters of all abilities I have noticed many things about people’s attitude to sewing and one of them which is valid for most of us is our obsession with perfection! Don’t get me wrong, I understand the fact that we all…
During the Festival of Quilts last year, MyTime Media (the publishing company behind British Patchwork and Quilting), ran a competition asking people to tell us ‘Why they sew?’. We were overwhelmed by how many people commented on it being a form of ‘therapy’ and when our team got chatting we all had our own stories…
I love the idea of anonymous Valentine’s day gifts, and what better for a small stash-busting quilty project than a few bonding hearts. These are the pairs of fabric hearts given to mothers with a baby in a neonatal unit. One heart stays with the baby, and the other is tucked inside clothing next to…
Cushion and Quilt from Recycled Shirts One of the questions I was asked recently was whether patchwork and quilting was expensive. As with everything we do, it’s up to us. It can be very expensive but, on the other hand, it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that quilts used…
