UK Quilters
One of my FAVOURITE things about patchwork and quilting is the community – quilters are such a lovely bunch, there is always some kind of swap, quilt along, charity quilt, sew along, community project going on, we just can’t help but be involved and I love that. So I was thrilled to be included in…
Who put my hand up to join in with this latest sew-a-row? Of course, I did it myself, having thoroughly enjoyed the Fire & Ice quilts that I was involved with plus the separate project where a few of us swapped rows which resulted in a fabulous quilt with rows donated by others and I…
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…
When I agreed to take part in this project I was chosen to complete the FIRE quilt. A daunting task without a doubt, but I decided to wait and see what everyone else created before I made my plans. The rows arrived a few weeks before I started work on them, I wanted to do…
Well, as most of my informative years were in the 80s I couldn’t help but think of this when hearing about the challenge for the Ice Quilt Sew-a-Row, designing a quilt for the UKQU website. You can read the full story of the Ice and Fire quilts in October’s issue of British Patchwork and Quilting…
The bloggers were asked who would like to partake in a Sew-A-Row quilt, and I decided to go for it. I haven’t been part of such a group before, and the only Sew-A-Row I’ve done before was one from Popular Patchwork magazine, using scraps. I wasn’t sure what would be required of me in this,…
Back in March an idea was floated within the UKQU bloggers community to put together a ‘sew-a-row’ quilt. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it is a quilt made up of different horizontal rows, usually with some kind if sashing and a border. This was a collaborative project between Sue Griffiths, myself, Corinne Curtis,…
When I knew I was going to be involved in putting something together for this quilt, I was both thrilled and apprehensive. When I’m planning or designing quilts at home, they tend to take on a mind of their own as they come together. When you are working with other people, it’s not always that…
The brief we were given for the Sew a Row was ‘ice’. Now, I live in the subtropics in Australia and it’s a long, long time since I’ve been in the ice and snow. In fact the last time I was in the snow was …. around 1985. At the time I was flatting in…
When I was young I made most of my own clothes and I loved making things from scratch (for quilters that is probably a familiar tale). I left home at the age of 18 years to train as an Occupational Therapist (OT), and when people found out what I did they would always make a…
‘Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring. Bound by wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire.’ (Johnny Cash) I love this song and we regularly blast it out in our Ukulele Group. Great piece of music and please feel free to play and sing along as you make this row! (Find chords…
Well, the shout went out for anyone interested in taking part in a sew-a-row where you had to design the row, sew the row and write up the pattern for it. After taking part in a sew-a-row a few years ago and enjoying every minute of it I just knew that this was for me.…
