Iron-on tapes help you achieve a smooth, crisp and professional finish to garments and home sewing projects. Whether your fabric is stretchy or firm, cut on the bias or straight grain, there will be a tape to…

Let creativity abound with these heart and star template sets from Sew Easy. These shaped transparent templates have marking points for easy positioning and a ¼” seam allowance to make the task of drawing and cu…

Having seen Sylvia Priest’s ‘Quilt of Memories’ on display at the Queen’s Centre Oncology Unit in Hull’s Castle Hill Hospital, Helen Dickinson was inspired to create a group quilt that captured people’s experienc…

Those of us who have been patching (or quilting) for far too long blithely use all sorts of terms that may not be quite so obvious to those just discovering quilting. One of those is ‘block’. A related term is ‘un…

Wonder Clips from Clover are now available in multi-sizes within one pack! Already available in separate Regular, Mini and Jumbo sizes, they now also come in a variety pack.

Wonder Clips provide a whole new…

Something exciting is happening this Christmas at UKQU – for the whole 12 days!
We will be releasing the full details shortly, but for now, we are calling out to all the quilting educators, designers and…

Quilting for charitable causes has become quite a thing these days .. the local sewing group I go to, Our Quilty Pleasures, has supported a number of charities over the years and we have recently been fortunate to…

Do you applique?  From time to time we see people asking about the best way to secure their applique prior to stitching in place, so when Hemline popped up with this we wanted to let you all know about this…

Recently I was exited to be able to join what was the second (somewhat delayed) annual retreat for an intrepid group of quilters collectively known as ‘Lady Chattey’s Quilt Lovers’. Thirteen ladies travelled to Denha…

Last time we looked at making mini quilt sandwiches and the different ways to quilt some of the blocks for our Puzzle Quilt. Once the quilting is all done it is time to join the blocks or sections together. Lay the…

Its always good to see new, improved products arriving in our sector – like this new wadding from Vlieseline. We have asked two of our bloggerati to test drive this too so watch out for their reviews t…

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…

When we started out on this Puzzle Quilt adventure I suggested that it would be a Quilt-as-you-Go (qayg) project. This means quilting the blocks (or several blocks) as you make them and then joining them together. I…

2021 Hemline Advent Calendar
Summer’s past and now we look forward to darker months – and the advent of things to come.   Hemline are far ahead of us with their popular Sewing Advent Calendar.

The Hemline a…

In a previous post I looked at some of the queries that have popped up on the UKQU Facebook feed about blocks and quilts and where to find patterns or sizes. I thought I would take this a step further (and also back)…

Hi All!
Its been a while again!  Life keeps over taking me, where is this year going at such a rate of knots?!!….. Loads of new designs this year, TV stuff and prep for a fabulous Irish retreat in a couple of w…