UK Quilters
Hello everyone…Miriam here. I’m an Architect turned stay-at-home wife and mother to two beautiful girls and a baby boy. I live in Africa, in a country with no culture or history of quilting, quilt shops, guilds or workshops, but somehow I fell in love with quilts and quilting and after months of drooling over the…
Dread having to bury all those threads after quilting? A self-threading needle will save you loads of time and it simply won’t be the chore it once was. A ‘self-threading needle’ has a cut made in the top of the eye that allows the thread to be easily pulled into the eye without having to…
Hi everyone, my name is Sarah and quilting is my escape from real life! I am married to Matt and we have one son, Ryan, I work full time for the NHS. Some of you may already know that our son is autistic, he is very intelligent and funny but needs lots of extra time…
Rotary cutters are a very versatile piece of equipment and suit both left and right handed people. My son is left handed and I know in some circumstances, you can adapt to doing things the right handed way. Sometimes you can’t. We have one pair of scissors that just don’t work for him. Wherever possible,…
I’ve been quilting since 1992, after seeing wonderful quilts made by friends and neighbours when I worked in Japan, and stitching sashiko since New Year 2000. Although my background is originally in Fine Art and stage design, I’ve had several changes of career direction and started designing and teaching patchwork, quilting and sashiko in 2001. …
Welcome to you all and a happy 2018 I hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year, and received lots of sewing related presents! I am so pleased to be a part of this new group for UKQU, but having never blogged before I am also very nervous! Just to re-cap, I…
Seeing the beautiful Japanese fabrics at the Edinburgh Quilt Show in 2015 was the trigger point that inspired my passion for patchwork and quilting. How could I possibly resist working with these fabulous fabrics? I’m Val Brooks, born in Abingdon too many years ago to remember, and I learnt to sew at school by an inspirational…
