UK Quilters
What a beautiful selection of fabrics in this lovely range by Makower UK, Dragonheart. Sure to be a success. The images on the fabric are so appealing. The quality of the fabric and the vibrancy of the colours have to be seen. I knew as soon as I saw the dragons, little knights and…
Almost 30 of the volunteer bloggers for the ukqu.co.uk website came together for the first time in real life at the weekend. Many of us have been blogging and ‘met’ each other online for the last year, but this was the first time most of us met in person. Fabric Club by Karen Lewis Textiles…
Something a little different from me this month, with posts about Christmas makes becoming the norm, I thought it would be nice to show off a Halloween make. I enjoy machine embroidery and I enjoy playing and digitising my own designs as well. I started with a 4 inch square embroidery area machine and soon…
Hello, I am still around. I have been recovering from an operation and boy! I under estimated the recovery time and the limitations the recovery phase placed upon me. I was not able to lift anything heavier than 1 litre of water for six weeks. Which meant no lifting of my sewing machines – I…
First, I would like to thank Clover and the UKQU for giving me the privilege of testing the Clover Embroidery Stitching Tool product. I must also apologise for the delay in writing this review. There are several reasons for this. Recovering from an operation took it out of me more than I realised. Secondly, had…
‘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…
With UK’s biggest and most visited quilt show, the Festival of Quilt, just around the corner we have added a few new UKQU merchandise to our shops including key rings, tote bags and car stickers. If you rather make your own things, we have FREE patterns for you to make the UKQU logo in two…
If you are reading this I guess you are a patchwork and quilter! So I wonder how you keep your skills fresh, what you use to update your knowledge and if you constantly challenge yourself to try different things? Life long learning is something I had drummed into me all through my working life but…
With over sixty members joining the UKQU Book Club in less than twelve hours (!!!), I felt the pressure to select the first book as soon as possible. Our first book To start us off, we are going to dive deep into the 1850s slave trade in the United States by reading Tracy Chevalier’s The…
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…
Following on from last months Strippy Pot Holder. (Link at bottom of page if any of you missed that) Still using my strippy scraps, this month I’m making a Rather Classy Strippy Cushion. Strippy-cushion UKQU Joyofquilting I picked out some brown and cream scraps from my stash. I cut two and a half inch strips…
Juliet and I started UK Quilters United four years ago and what was once a group with just the two of us and ‘some random’ people we’d met online, has now grown into a group with over 14,000 members in the United Kingdom and beyond. We have also more than a dozen related groups and as…
