UK Quilters
Clover is a well known company that have been making sewing tools for many years. I recently received the brilliant Hold It Precision Stiletto. Really handy for keeping your piecing in line and perfect. The thing that makes this really helpful, is that it has a plastic curved pointer at one end which helps keep…
It’s not often that I get a new (to me) product which surprises me but that’s what happened when I received the woven interlining B 700 from Vlieseline to try out. I thought it was a standard iron on interfacing which had environmental credentials, and it is, but so much better than expected. When quilting,…
The new Clover Desk Needle Threader turned up through my letterbox a couple of weeks ago whilst I was on holiday. (Northumbria on the East coast – my goodness it was stunning!) So I wasn’t able to test this as quickly as I’d have liked. To be honest, I’d love to have taken it with…
Some of you may know that Strictly Quilting has been running sewing retreats for a couple of years now in collaboration with Cecilia Slinn. We recently held our Summer Retreat where we had a fabulous time. There were two projects for people to make. Cecilia brought us a Project Bag and I designed a Block…
This year is passing so quickly. Easter has come and gone and the garden has started to grow even with all the rain. It’s about now I start to look forward to summer, hoping for a little sunshine to make us all feel better. Cecilia Slinn and I have been arranging this summer’s June Retreat…
Well it’s been a bit of a while since I’ve done a lot of sewing. In January the family and I took to the slopes of Bulgaria for a ski trip and, you guessed it, I was taken out by a snowboarder on the first day and broke my wrist.. Had to be the right…
Towards the start of this year I was hoping to host a Sew A-Long (SAL) series of blogs on my website Strictly Quilting. Well, sometimes life gets in the way by throwing the odd curve ball and I found things didn’t quite work out the way I’d planned. I’d started the design, based on star…
Gütermann is one of the most popular thread producers having been around for decades. As a girl, the chap that used to service our sewing machine always recommended Gütermann thread and I still use it for a lot of my piecing and dressmaking. They have a wide range of threads and one is Deco Stitch.…
Late last year a group of five stitchers from the Bloggarati on UKQU, the lovely group who provide us with the Blogs on the website, got together to devise another free Sew a Row quilt. We did a pair of quilts a few years ago, Fire and Ice, which were fun to make and joined…
For protecting outer fabric when pressing and fusing. This new non-woven pressing IRON ON Cloth from Vlieseline has been specifically designed for use with fusible interlinings, making it suitable for a wide range of sewing, patchwork and quilting projects. By protecting the outer fabric when fusing, the IRON ON Cloth prevents glossy spots on heat…
I’ve just been looking at booking a holiday in our caravan. Chatsworth House has been on my visiting list for a long time and I think this year might be the time to visit the Peak District but I also LOVE taking time out for a sewing retreat or two every year. The first retreat…
These clever little rulers are used when you want to turn a fold over, be it on a hem of a garment or an edge of a quilt block. Hot Hemmers are made from nylon fibre board which is placed along the fold line, you then use the iron to press the fabric over the…
