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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Don't chop off the points!, on the site UKQU 4 months, 1 week ago
Hello – I’m Carolyn Gibbs, and my great love is traditional style patchwork and quilting – designing and making things myself, as well as enjoying antique quilts made by others.
In my “other life” I teach Che…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Birthday Bunting, on the site UKQU 5 months, 3 weeks ago
A special child needs a special present – here’s an idea for a personalised and unusual gift which will be useful for years.
This card hanger can string along a wall, or over a door, and because an alp…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Washing antique quilts, on the site UKQU 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I collect antique quilts, mostly from EBay, and some of them arrive showing plenty of evidence of a hard life. If they are in good condition structurally, but very dirty, I usually wash them. People often ask me how…
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 6 months ago
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Fit for an Angel, on the site UKQU 6 months ago
John opened his eyes slowly, noticing that he had almost five minutes before the alarm clock started ringing. After almost forty five years of getting up to do the morning milking, his body clock could have…
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What a fantastic read!!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, A Step forward for Tilly, on the site UKQU 6 months ago
As Tilly wiped around the scullery sink in the light of the dying fire, she thought back over the past three years. Since coming to work for Miss Charlotte following the death of her mother, she had not only learnt…
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What a heartwarming story.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Grandmother's Flower Garden, on the site UKQU 9 months ago
Hexagons are the easiest shape to use for patchwork using the English Paper Piecing (or mosaic patchwork) method. There are many ways hexagons can be combined into different patterns, but the most common is the…
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What a super blog! It brought back my Mum, whose favourite this was, trying to explain to her little group …(one of whom cut out, one sewed, one who could not sew “advised”)…exactly how this problem arose. She never did get them to see the problem!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months ago
This was brilliant Jude – provided some much needed hilarity and solidarity (my printer decided to do something similar just before I needed to print all the handouts for Festival of Quilts teaching – do you think they have decided to get together just to spite us?)
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Carolyn Gibbs recommended the post Not the blog I intended to write 11 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months ago
A really useful blog, Chris – so often the same units are hiding away, and breaking the structure down makes it much easier to work out how to make it
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Carolyn Gibbs recommended the post Discovering the Quilting Community – A Newbie Quilters’ Experience 11 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I like the shirt bag – specially the pocket for a shopping list!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts Exhibition at the Bowes: Part 2 Patchwork quilts, on the site UKQU 1 year ago
The North Country Quilts exhibition at the Bowes Museum on until January 2022 contains some wonderful examples of typical British styles.
In the last post, I wrote about the Strippy Quilts. Today the topic is the… -
Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts at the Bowes Part 1: Strippy quilts, on the site UKQU 1 year ago
Currently, there is a wonderful exhibition of Heritage quilts on display at the Bowes Museum, which is near Barnard Castle. These are all British quilts made in the North East of England from the mid nineteenth…
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago
Thank you!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago
Thank you – I enjoyed imagining my quilts in their former existence!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 6 months ago
A lovely story – quilting has indeed been a comfort in a dark world for so many this year
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, A patch of love, on the site UKQU 1 year, 6 months ago
Tilly took one last look around the cottage from the doorway. Almost all the possessions and furniture that she had grown up with had been sold to pay the debts which had built up during her mother’s last illness, l…
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A lovely story and you have some amazing quilts in your collection. Thankyou for sharing.
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Thank you – I enjoyed imagining my quilts in their former existence!
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What a lovely, heart-warming story!
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Thank you!
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Carolyn Gibbs recommended the post Our Patchwork Heritage – Triangles 1 year, 9 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 9 months ago
Thanks Maggie – yes, I must agree that I don’t personally find colour wheels very helpful
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