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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The magic of Wundaweb 7 years, 7 months ago
There’s no need for stitching with Wundaweb from Vlieseline. This fine, fusible fleece bonds fabric quickly and easily, providing a natural but secure finish. This could help when you are faced with dif…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: .COM Confusion 7 years, 7 months ago
We talk often of the fabrics in Aldi .. read here the ‘big box retailer’ inference that Scott Fortunoff refers to when talking of Walmart in the US. Its a matter of choice whether you buy or not .. but if we don’…
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, EXPANDABLE SEWING WORKBOX (Etui)- Part 2 7 years, 7 months ago
PART TWO – ASSEMBLY…..
SEWING CAN BEGIN….The lid brim is covered on the outside with the 28inch x 2inch strip set aside earlier. Fold in half inch turnings on one long side and press with an iron. Once ironed…
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, EXPANDING SEWING WORKBOX (Etui)Part 1 7 years, 7 months ago
Expanding Sewing Workbox (Etui)
This is the second Workbox I have made and, boy, do I wish I had taken photos and made a record of what did last time!
The Workbox will take you several hours to make, cutting…
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I am looking forward to part 2! Really succinct and well illustrated. I have often thought of doing this, now I have no excuse.
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Hi Maggie, Part 2 is on here too. Chuffed with your comments. Thanks everso x
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, HEMLINE Bobbin Accessories 7 years, 7 months ago
Everyone with a sewing machine needs a plentiful stock of bobbins and neat storage accessories and Hemline provides everything you need!
Bobbin Box –Clear PlasticKeep your bobbins tidy and t…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilting on the Go – a cautionary tale 7 years, 7 months ago
This summer we bought half a static caravan – our daughter and her family own the other half. Despite comments from friends about which side was ours we have already had some fantastic weekends away both with and…
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Sounds familiar. Hope you do better next time.
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I am already making plans Pauline!
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Love the idea of a home away from home. I, too, have two machines and another one. My other was is a Newhome too, had it as a present to myself when I was widowed in 1978. It, too, doesn’t work but it still has pride of place in my workroom. Look forward to hearing more of your tales from the Acorn Falls…… thank you x
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, In Full View!!!……. 7 years, 7 months ago
The Mystery Quilt is no longer a Mystery!!!……… and……. breathe!!!
As promised, it has loads of colour & balancing and improving techniques based on an English Country Garden using Makower’s fabric range ‘Linen…
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Gardens and quilting 7 years, 7 months ago
An odd combination? Perhaps not – I find when I’m teaching that many of my students are as keen on gardening as they are about quilting. As am I. Our problems arise in the months from about April to October when we…
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Wow..beautiful garden Chris.
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Beautiful pictures. I love gardening, too, which does take time away from quilting in the summer but I do make up for it in the colder months.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter replied to the topic Website Improvements in the forum UKQU 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Linda and Lesley,
Apologies, but we rarely check the forum. How remiss of us! Our day job really has been taking over lately, so the best way to raise any issues is to raise a ticket as we are monitoring that much more closely. You can see the Group issue with spammers was resolved relatively quickly too once we were aware of it. time…[Read more]
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter replied to the topic Website Improvements in the forum UKQU 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Linda and Lesley,
Apologies, but we rarely check the forum. How remiss of us! Our day job really has been taking over lately, so the best way to raise any issues is to raise a ticket as we are monitoring that much more closely. You can see the Group issue with spammers was resolved relatively quickly too once we were aware of it. time…[Read more]
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter replied to the topic Website Improvements in the forum UKQU 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Linda and Lesley,
Apologies, but we rarely check the forum. How remiss of us! Our day job really has been taking over lately, so the best way to raise any issues is to raise a ticket as we are monitoring that much more closely. You can see the Group issue with spammers was resolved relatively quickly too once we were aware of it. time…[Read more]
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter replied to the topic Website Improvements in the forum UKQU 7 years, 7 months ago
sorry for the lack of response … the spammers were removed some time ago. Unfortunately since we rarely get comments here its not checked regularly enough, but I hope you can see the issue is resolved. If you do have any issues its often better to raise a ticket as those are checked afre more regularly.
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Lynda Jackson wrote a new post, Freemotion and design classes 7 years, 7 months ago
In my last blog I discussed learning to use rulers on your machines and designing with them. The response was fantastic, so much so that I am going to have to look at repeating the class later in the year as this…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Bias Bars from Sew Easy 7 years, 7 months ago
These bias bars from Sew Easy are so easy to use and are a real help to making perfect stems for applique and craft projects for vines, basket handles as well as for curved, celtic and leadlight designs in…
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Lynda Jackson wrote a new post, Rulers – But not the bossy kind 😉 7 years, 7 months ago
It seems that the latest trend in the quilting world is the use of quilting rulers to use both on domestic machines and on longarm machines. They are being sold in various forms and various shapes and sizes, but…
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This sounds like the perfect course for anyone wanting to learn a new skill, Lynda has won so many awards for her quilting she would be the best person to learn from.
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Thank you Carole, that’s so nice to hear. xx
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Gutermann Thread Pack with Edge Shaper 7 years, 7 months ago
A pack of eight x 100m reels of gorgeous, high quality polyester Sew All Threads from Gütermann creative make a great gift and come in a range of gloriously fresh, bright shades plus black and white. Perfect t…
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Lynda Jackson wrote a new post, World Quilts Competition – News Update 7 years, 8 months ago
Many of you will have seen on my personal page that I recently won Best of World at the World Quilt New England Show in the US with my quilt Silver Linings. Overwhelmed and overjoyed does not go anywhere near to…
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Congratulations Lynda! Big shoes to fill but I’m sure you’re up to it.
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Thank you. I will give it my best I assure you xx
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Fantastic! What an honour – on all counts
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Good luck in your new role. Congratulations on your win too.
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Light, medium or dark? 7 years, 8 months ago
How can you tell which fabrics are ‘light’, which are ‘medium’ and which ‘dark’, let alone ‘light-medium’ or ‘medium-dark’ or any of the other variations you may have come across?
If you are using a monochrome…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Book Giveaway 7 years, 8 months ago
Over the last few weeks Fiona Pullen, well-known author of several books, The Sewing Directory website and an all-round nice person, has been explaining how to set up a successful…
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Abigail Sheridan de Graaff wrote a new post, cut&alter : Book Review : Making & Marketing a Successful Art & Craft Business 7 years, 8 months ago
I was delighted to receive a copy of Fiona Pullens’s revised edition of Making & Marketing a Successful Art & Craft Business to review. This is an updated version of Fiona’s first book Craft a Creative Business, tha…
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Thank you for the review Abigail
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