UK Quilters
Normally I would have spent the last few months teaching classes at my local quilt shop (The Corner Patch) and preparing for those classes. In between I might have gardened and played (sorry – ‘worked’) with Electric Quilt – perhaps designing next year’s Block of the Month classes for the shop. I would be making…
Our July book is different to what we have been reading recently but I felt it was time for a more thought-provoking book, instead of yet another quilting mystery book. This is one voice from the horrors that ended 75 years ago with the liberation of one of the most well-known concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, The…
What now seems like forever, several years since, I joined a weekend workshop with Sheena Roberts (Green Man Quilts) at the Jane White Sewing Studios.  These are at the Ropewalk in Barton on Humber, an arts and crafts hub with a very tasty deli-style cafe where an eclectic mix of crafters can be found.  …
Free Motion Quilting, Whole Cloths. This is a video challenge that I set myself, of using 3 stencils, 3 colours of thread and 3 designs. which could be a mixture of one part of a stencil, or a full stencil. As with the designs using parts of or all of the design. Which where (straight…
As promised last month, the book for June has exactly the same title as the one we read during May; A Single Tread. The author for the June version is Tracy Chevalier. The book takes us to Southampton and Winchester in 1930s England where we get to know Violet Speedwell, who is a ‘surplus woman’.…
How small a scrap of fabric do you keep? The answer is different for everyone. Some scraps I have are tiny but I might just need that particular shade of blue for an appliquéd eye at some point. So during lockdown I have vowed to tackle my scraps and reduce the ever-expanding bags/boxes that grow…
Many quilters are also gardeners. Have you ever wondered why this is? I was pondering on it as I wandered round the garden taking photos of progress (or lack of) while thinking that I really ought to be getting on with the Block of the Month quilt and taking photos of its progress (or lack…
FIN FEATHERS This design came to my attention, it was inspired by Bethanne Nemesh, so thankyou to her. The video has pics an full instructions to complete. I hope you enjoy and have ago it was fun to do. send me pics
So far this year all my blogs have been about stash busting or the UKQU Book Club. This time I am sharing another stash busting idea, and a timely one at that in this time of lockdown – face masks. The medical experts are not (yet) in agreement on how effective cotton face masks are,…
Irving Berlin, 1926 I just love this song, written by Irving Berlin way back in 1926, and the line ‘Nothing but Blue Skies from now on‘ really heralds in Spring. This April has been no exception; the skies have been beautifully blue helping, in part, to lesson the trials and tribulations foisted on us all…
ROPE DESIGN This was requested for me to show you how to do the rope design without a stencil. It has the full explanation in the tutorial. A great little video I will follow this up with doing the corners as this was highlighted to me. So watch this space
It’s almost May and time to reveal our next book, or actually the next TWO books as last month I mentioned that the next two books have exactly the same title. The books are both called A Single Thread. Our book for May was written by Marie Bostwick back in 2008. Bostwick’s version of A…
Chris Franses
Nina
Sylvia Priest
Sandra Pearson
Helen Kent
Ruth Garner