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Ruth Garner recommended the post Little projects from the scrap bag 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post Let’s make a patchwork Jacket II – Choosing Colours & nbsp; 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post Let’s make a patchwork jacket Technique I – Piecing 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner wrote a new post, Bite sized to life long learning 7 years, 10 months ago
If you are reading this I guess you are a patchwork and quilter! So I wonder how you keep your skills fresh, what you use to update your knowledge and if you constantly challenge yourself to try different…
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My mistake! Apologies to Sue O’Riordan whose name is spelt completely wrong!
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I found this interesting – for my pastimes, I am very into learning something new but not at all bothered about formal qualifications. So the approach that we have within UKQU is perfect for me!
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Thank you Cheryl. Learning something new is what keeps us all young, excited and inspired. We can gauge our own degree of mastering a new skill or knowledge base and that is all that matters for most of us (oh….. and sharing the results with us all in the UKQU Continuing Development group of course. ).
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Ruth Garner recommended the post Which Bobbin Thread 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post Lost interest! 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post How To Add a ‘Magic’ Binding 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post Makower Counting Sheep Review 7 years, 10 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post SUN HAT PIN CUSHION 7 years, 11 months ago
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Ruth Garner recommended the post The Cinderella of Quilting – quilting with the feed dogs up 7 years, 11 months ago
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Vendulka Battais wrote a new post, How to trace a design onto difficult fabric 7 years, 11 months ago
Did you ever wanted to stitch something onto your work, but needed the guidance of a drawn line and didn’t know how to get the lines onto a fabric?
There are lots of tools and pens which you can use to mark your…
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Great idea working freom the back! never thought of that. Have tried the tissue paper and it worked well, but a bit of a fag tearing it away after. Will definitely try working from the back – Thanks Vendulka x
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Yes, it’s tedious getting the paper out, but sometimes it’s better than risking the lines coming back. Glad my tip is helpful!
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I found working from the back really helpful in thread drawing
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Fab ideas, Vendulka – I really must get more inventive with my quilting!
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Great, simple ideas, thanks.
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thank you!
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, Perfect Circles!! 7 years, 11 months ago
Whilst making the circles for my Sample Block Quilt – I was having trouble needle turning the edge of my central circles.
I was trawling through the ‘net’ and came across this suggestion. I thought it was clever…
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I think that is an excellent idea! No need to burn fingertips, mess with glue or thread a needle -all of which leave to chaos for the butterfingers amongst us.
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Thank you Maggie. I thought it was a good idea too! x
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Definitely going to try this Sue. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Carol – that is kind of you to comment x
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giniscanlan wrote a new post, The Making of my Crazy Cushions Quilt Pattern 7 years, 11 months ago
I was totally overwhelmed by the number of people who liked the mini quilt I made for the UKQU Spring 2018 Mini Quilt Swap. I received dozens of comments and Facebook messages asking if I had bought the pattern or if…
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Love all the versions Gini – well done. Will def have a go….
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All beautiful and fab blog
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What a great initial quilt and then the subsequent versions are fantastic! Well done Gini I am sure this will be very popular.
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Brilliant Gini!
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Wow! I love all the different versions and the colour combinations. When my cat is on his ‘tower’ (of three quilts and blankets all folded up) I can’t but think of the Princess and the Pea, I am going to have to give your pattern a go. Thank you 🙂
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Loved making this. Thanks for creating the pattern.
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Thanks Pauline, you’ll have to post a picture on the Facebook page so I can see it! X
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This is so lovely, and so very personal.
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Fiona Garth posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
@sylviar you have won a ticket to FOQ. Please email me your address so I can sent it to you. [email protected]
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Fiona Garth wrote a new post, Result of Festival of Quilts Free Draw 7 years, 11 months ago
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…
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Denise Inkson wrote a new post, The Cheap Procrastinator – Procrastination Central: Best laid plans of mice and men and motif madness. 7 years, 11 months ago
For those that have been following my blogs. I suspect you were expecting Boro part three. Well to be honest, it has not gone to plan.
At the start of the month, I was still feeling a little reluctant to sew…
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You have made my eyes go funny! Thank you for this blog post, it’s intense. I’m glad you won the appeal 🙂
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Glad you like it and thank you.
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, SUN HAT PIN CUSHION 7 years, 11 months ago
As some of you may already know – I live in Granada Province, Andalucia, in Spain. Our village here is very small with just over 1000 inhabitants, both Spanish and incomers from other parts of the world.
Due to l…
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This is a brilliant idea Sue! I’ll definitely be making some for our Linus fundraising sale table xx
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Thanks Gini. They are really simple to do (as you can see) and look good. 🙂
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Excellent cause Sue and what a great idea. Will make some of these for our group exhibition next year. A good way to use up some old CDs but will have to find a vegan alternative to the tuna tin 🙂
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Thanks Ruth – gosh never thought of the tin!!!! What on earth can you get that is Vegan and the same size as a Universal Tuna tin? 🙂
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Maybe a little tin of vegan spread from the Health food store – will check it out and let you know Sue. 🙂
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Chick peas?
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Might be a bit too tall. Will go searching in a health food store and see what I come up with. Thanks Heather. 🙂
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These are so cute! And for such a great cause!
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Thank you Melissa. They are so easy to make, and so effective.x
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Upcycling at its best. I would never think of using a scoured! Lovely -and so well explained.
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Thank you Maggie.
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This may just encourage me to clear out some CD’s, your explanation is really clear. So good to hear that you are part of that little village and helping to keep it vibrant, Andalusians are such lovely people in my experience.
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What a brilliant idea, thanks for sharing
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That’s so lovely Sue. I’m adding it to my extremely long to-do list 🙂
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Thank you Alison. That is very kind of you.
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Sue Griffiths wrote a new post, Fun with Fabric – Quilt Africa Fabric Challenge 7 years, 11 months ago
I’m really excited about the Quilt Africa Challenge being run by Miriam Galadima Benson from Nigeria. You can follow the link to read her blog post about it.
African fabrics are so exciting to use and so d…
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Fantastic fabrics! I’ve made a couple of quilts using African prints, they’re very easy to get hold of in London although most seem to be imported from the Netherlands. I’ll take a look at the website, it sounds intriguing. Another really nice blog Sue. Your writing is always so interesting.
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Thanks Gini, African fabrics are hard to get here, so it’s nice to be able to order direct from Miriam in Nigeria. They are amazing prints.
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Lovely quilts and great ideas for the next one. I’m not sure how Bloggers Corner works. How can I read your previous blogs, Sue?
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Hi Suzanne, lovely to hear you enjoyed my blog. I’m trying to work out how you can search for past blogs, but so far I haven’t worked it out. I will let you know when I work it out myself!
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You are right, it’s so hard to search. Most of mine have been tagged ‘quilting” . At least a lot if mine come up if I use that tag. Everyone’s name is at the bottom of their blog, so you can see who you are reading. The only other thing I can think of to do is copy the links and paste the message in a reply. I’ll try that.
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Hi Suzanne. The search engine only seems to search titles in the blogs. So I think I need to add something to my titles that will make it easy to search. In the meantime, if you search ‘Sydney’ ‘Australasian’ ‘English paper piecing’ ‘storage’ ‘sids’ you should get most of mine. I also have my personal blog under Duckcreekmountainquilting.com. Thanks so much for taking an interest and highlighting the problem.
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I asked the blogaratti….. https://ukqu.co.uk/members/susiana/blog/ should list all my blogs
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Beautiful and inspirational Sue. I love African batiks and find myself buying and hoarding instead of buying and sewing. You have given me something to think about, thank you 🙂
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I just find them so different from anything we get. They have such a clear aesthetic value. I love them.
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Sue Griffiths wrote a new post, Quilt NSW and the Sydney Quilt Show 2018 7 years, 11 months ago
I had a wonderful day at the Sydney Quilt show run by Quilt NSW. The standard of quilts was very high and the prize winning quilts were all wonderful. Here is a quick tour of my favourites, not in any particular…
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Wow what great quilts. Great to see what people are making in Australia – such a wide variety of quilts and beautifully done. Thanks for sharing.
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The quilts were stunning especially the prize winners. It’s hard to do a show justice in a small post. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Absolutely stunning, thanks for sharing these amazing quilts 🙂
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thanks Alison, I really enjoyed just being there.
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I had missed this! Such stunning work is humbling.
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