Are you planning to visit the Festival of Quilts this year. Between the 18th until the 21st August the event of the year will be stretched across the Halls at the NEC, Birmingham, showing some of the best quilts from the UK and beyond.  Many of you will be exhibiting, and many of you will…

Make it a date in your diary! The Craft4Crafters exhibition features a mass of crafting delights; packed full of crafting displays, demonstrations, lectures, workshops, make & takes, and a large selection of fantastic retailers. Stock up on craft & needlework supplies, including embroidery, card making, cross stitch and knitting. Over the last 18 years the…

  If you are visiting here and looking for the competitions, then you are looking in the wrong place. The 2021 Christmas Competitions will be appearing at the UKQU new event .. The Twelve Days of Christmas, so click this link and pop over there. There are six fabulous competitions popping up over the time,…

Tilda Scrap Bundles Tilda fabric is known for quality fabric, soft to handle, and lovely to work with.  They have come up with a great stash builder in their pretty Ten FQ Scrap Bundles which they create from whatever they have left at the end of fulfilling retailers’ orders. It’s always going to be a…

There were some fabulous quilts at FOQ this year, but there’s a second chance to see the winning competition quilts and the Fine Art Textile Gallery at the Knitting & Stitching Show,  which will be taking place 7th – 10th October at Alexandra Palace in London. Our lucky winners, who each win a pair a…

When Clover asked Resolution (my video company) to create a series of explainer videos to showcase their fantastic range of notions we were really excited. We asked Stuart Hillard to work with us – he is a dream presenter for any company and really does understand the craft. Stuart designed this lovely little humbag bag…

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Have you ever thought about designing your own quilt patterns or creating your own block design.  Electric Quilts have the perfect software for you.   There are loads of new ideas created by their users right here too. We are happy to announce that the lovely people at Electric Quilts have given this lovely website a…

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This beautiful quilt was created by Claudia Pfeil Calling all quilters – we have some good news! This year The Festival of Quilts annual quilting competition will be going ahead… virtually! There is something for every level and style of quilting, with 12 different categories to choose from including Modern, Contemporary, Pictorial and Novice. The…

Hi everyone Time for an update on a few things I think. I feel as though I have been neglecting you all a little as I have been so busy, and life sometimes gets in the way of doing what you really want to. So with no more ado let’s move onward. World Quilts Would…

And the winner of this trip to the Quilt Festival held annually at Noord Gronigen in Holland 11-14 June 2020 arranged by courtesy of ECT Travel is Helen Keegan!    Congratulations! Marjan and Rob Ruitenberg launched the Quilt festival Noord Groningen in 2010 out of their shared passion for quilting. Nine years on, it has…

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At the Festival of Quilts this year, for the very first time, one of the first ladies of Quilting –  Jenny Doan – will be visiting with her famous Trunk Show. Jenny Doan has been called ‘The most famous quilter in the world’ with her Youtube tutorials being viewed more than 110 million times. Jenny…

Gulliver had a very important job to do this week. He took a very special parcel to the post office. In his parcel are 6 quilts featuring himself. They are from the UKQU competitions from last year. 6 monthly competitions based on a theme. Gulliver was very fortunate to be asked to send all 6…

All is not what it might seem today!   Check the date before you look any further! Someone commenting on the foolish blogs posted today only might just win a lovely Riley Blake bag.   And no that’s no joke either! Go look around our lovely website, and see what you can see.  In doing so you might…

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Yes, you read that perfectly correctly. The Great Janome Giveaway .. Part One The lovely people at Janome have given us FOUR Janome M100 QDC Sewing Machines to give away! [Quilt and thread not included – picture for illustration only] During March, June, September and finally in December we will re-set the counter here on this…

This months competition is sponsored by Grosvenor Shows and EQS The theme for March was the Mad March Hare. We had some fabulous entries and our lucky winners are shown below.  Well done everyone who entered and voted for their favourites. This Months first prize is great for beginner or expert alike and has been…

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Have you ever wanted to enter one of your own quilts into an Exhibition? We asked you all this back in April, and wow .. did you ever.   So many beautiful quilts have been entered, and once we have heard from November’s final winner we will bring them all together for you to enjoy here. …

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The competition to celebrate the launch of my Christmas 18 QAL quilt has now closed and a winner has been picked ….. Congratulations to Jane Nicholls!! The fabric bundle from the Silent Night range by Makower will be shortly winging it’s way to you. Don’t forget that the early bird discount of 20% applies until…

We offered UKQU members the chance to win a free entrance ticket to Festival Of Quilts on our March Blog. Entrants were asked to visit our website and choose which QS Batik fabric was their favourite. Very surprisingly, entrants were very low – Just 17 in fact to win 4 tickets and three of those…

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