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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Grandmother's Flower Garden, on the site UKQU 2 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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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 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 4 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 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 4 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 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 5 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 2 weeks 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 11 months, 1 week ago
Thank you!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months, 1 week ago
So many memories in our stash of fabrics
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months, 1 week ago
Thank you – I enjoyed imagining my quilts in their former existence!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 11 months, 1 week 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 11 months, 1 week 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, 2 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 2 months ago
Thanks Maggie – yes, I must agree that I don’t personally find colour wheels very helpful
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 3 months ago
I learnt so much from Harriet Hargreaves books too!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 3 months ago
A really interesting blog. Those distinctive colour names are useful to help me remember a particular colour of fabric that I am searching for.
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 3 months ago
I also use storage boxes for my fabric, separated into rough colour families. We deliberately bought a metal framed bed so that I could store the boxes underneath – keeps them out of the light to avoid fading
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 1 year, 5 months ago
Glad you found it helpful, Maggie – we can always pick up new tips, no matter how long we have been doing patchwork.
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Skilful Skyful Part 1: Half Square Triangles, on the site UKQU 1 year, 5 months ago
This is the first of a series of eight blogs which will teach you different techniques used in traditional American block patchwork. Each section will include full, free instructions for two Star blocks using the…
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I wish you had been writing this when I started: I would not have had to learn by making horrible mistakes! Thank you.
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Glad you found it helpful, Maggie – we can always pick up new tips, no matter how long we have been doing patchwork.
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1 month, 4 weeks ago
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!