Excellent suggestion. I have 3 machines and they all have 1/4″ feet and they are all different size!!!!!

I’m definitely going to try this out. So simple too.

This is really moving and I love the quilts shown. It is a great thought provoking feature Sylvia on a subject we should never forget.

Thank you again, Sylvia, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to connect with quilters in the UK (and beyond!) on your beautiful, user-friendly site. I’m honored and delighted.

I’ll certainly be talking about this to our quilting group on Wednesday. I’m sure that some of them will want to be involved. Thought provoking project.

Duck, duck, duck, duck….duck?

I love the wee ducks, I never knew that such a wonderful project existed and I’m off now to have a further read.. unfortunately the blood transfusion service no longer visits the western isles as it became not viable with so many ferry cancellations so financially and loss of donated blood in delay getting it back to Inverness

What a lovely idea.They are sooo cute…I’m off to take a quack peek

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Oh my!!!
What a wonderful blog, thank you so very much in blogging about this and bringing to my attention and hopefully to all the others who happen on it. I can assure you I shall be making so many aware of this LYD awareness campaign, an illness that we all dread. For those of us who on the side lines feel helpless in having to sit and watch as loved ones take on a frightening and painful journey, that us fortunate in having good health can only imagine, a little something to feel like we are doing ‘our bit’.
I cannot wait now until Monday to take patterns to all the ladies in my knitting group and spread the word on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to the quilting groups I hold and attend.
Believe me I shall even be telling my friends in the pub!
So very close to my heart.
LYD will (with considerable re-telling, knitting and sewing) be in abundance in these Somerset towns.
Off to spread the word.

These are great Sylvia, my next make I think – might even use freezer paper as a template and try making the tag on calico!

Great blog..joining!

Great piece, Amy. A lot of thought went into it I am sure

This is a really interesting post, and the hearts make it all the more appropriate for Valentine’s day posting too xx

What an inspiring post Amy, thank you. I’m going to make a stocking, it’ll be nice to be reunited with my Christmas fabrics.

I would love to join in. I have enough Christmas hangings etc.

I feel your pain (with cutting it wrong). Great insight into others troubles with using lovely fabric. Thank you for sharing and being so honest

I get downhearted when I see lovely quilts and imagine everyone is getting them right first time (unlike me!). Thanks for sharing Juliet. Lovely quilt you have there; even if not quite finished yet.

A really interesting read and you can’t beat a good flange .. I am rapidly being converted to the idea of a kit, apart from the fear of cutting it wrong! Abbie Searle’s Mystery Quilt will be dispatched soon so I am looking forward to that .. but cutting the fabric will be a big thing for me. What tips would you suggest to avoid anxiety of that, apart from a large glass of vodka?

I enjoyed the way you write! Makes me feel better about my ‘bad’ cutting, if others have the same problem.

Very comforting to know that I am not the only one to get things upside down, inside out, and back to front, some [most] days! Lol ! I reckon that your beautiful black and white butterfly quilt is going to look amazing once finished. How about some regular straight-line quilting to hold it all together, and then go back for some FMQ another time (in a few days/weeks/months) aaannnddd, meanwhile, your mini-flange-demo-quilt (and thank you for that too btw, brilliant) might be the perfect playground for practising your FMQ too – yay hey, win win x

You are the queen of flange

Hi Juliet – i normally do this type of Flange on my quilts! Great minds…..