UK Quilters
Search Press describe themselves as “The world’s finest art and craft books”, and Sarah Payne’s Quilt School certainly is deserving of this description. This is an ideal book for those starting out on their quilting journey. For someone like me (I consider myself to be an experienced quilter – I’ve been quilting for over 20…
A common patchwork unit where getting a good line up can be tricky is the “Square-in-a-Square” unit. Four triangles are sewn around a central square. It should finish as shown in the photo above, with enough of the triangle fabric remaining all round to leave a quarter inch seam allowance beyond the points of the…
Once you move on from simple squares to more interesting patchwork designs, you may run into a few problems when stitching smaller units together into a block. For example, have you ever joined a square to a Flying Geese unit, and wondered why the square is sticking out at the bottom…….? It’s tempting at this…
I’m making two postcards, and it’s hard to see how they’ll work out: So, I cut out a 6×4-inch window to get a better idea before I go any further: It helps me to visualise how it will turn out. It’s simple, but it works:)
We all love quilting and patchwork, and it doesn’t have to stop with the planning and creation of quilts! There are plenty of fiction books available where quilts, quilting and quilters are featured. Also, with the days (hopefully) getting warmer, many of us may be looking at getting outdoors on a regular basis, or going…
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…
