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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, CORNFLOWER 5 years, 8 months ago
The beautiful blue cornflower was adopted as the national symbol for MND..Motor Neurone Disease because of its fragile appearance but hardy nature. Like the cornflower, people with MND show remarkable strength in…
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Juliet Nice recommended the post Our Patchwork Heritage – Triangles 5 years, 8 months ago
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, POPPIES 5 years, 8 months ago
Pam Moore wanted to join in with our amazingly popular Garden Flowers Blog Hop, but as happens from time to time, life got in the way. Not wanting to disappoint we asked Lyn Butler to help out and this is what P…
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That is just drop-dead gorgeous !
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Stunning x
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Dresden Flower 5 years, 8 months ago
The popular name for this patchwork design reflects the romance of the Victorian Era with it’s love of elaborate decoration on household items & decor. Dresden, Germany was a center of 19th Century romanticism m…
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I love the downwards petals too!
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, In The Garden 5 years, 8 months ago
Like most of you we have spent the most of our time in the garden this summer and I thought I would share some photos with you.
This is one of our sunflowers which grew to 8′ tall, lucky to catch the bee c…
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Keep it Simple-Appliqué Flower Block 5 years, 8 months ago
One thing I love about appliqué is that you can make it as complicated or as simple as you like. With raw edge appliqué you can create images that have a childlike quality. Something fresh and simple can be ple…
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Lovely Jane x
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thank you
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lovely block
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thank you
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Hexagon Flower Garden 5 years, 8 months ago
How many of us started our patchwork journey with making up hexagons? I know I did for one, many moons ago.
Hexagon quilts go back in history as far back to the 17th century.
EPP..English Paper Piecing is a very…
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What a lovely reminder of other times. Thank you!
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Thanks Maggie x
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What a great block it reminded me of my mum, she used to make these hexagons . Lovely block lovely memory xx
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Thankyou Sandra x
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Daisy Chain Block 5 years, 8 months ago
Are you enjoying all the different flower blocks and the different techniques used? I’ve loved seeing them all.
This is my second block and this time I had in mind summer days and daisy chains. Do you remember s…
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lovely block look forward to the on line class
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thank you Sandra, October 29th is the date to remember
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So pretty: I love these.
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Sue Griffiths wrote a new post, Flowers in my garden 5 years, 8 months ago
There is so much joy and delight in a flower garden. Gardeners work with nature to create an ever-changing display of beauty, and flowers are so beautiful and so transient. We want to celebrate them as they pass so…
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A lovely, clear explanation, especially of the chain piecing and pressing all in one!
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Wow another fabulous flower block love it
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Love it! FPP for me 🙂
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, I’ve started . . . . 5 years, 8 months ago
So I’ll finish. . . or maybe not. I’m great at starting, just not so great at finishing. There are various reasons for this. I lose interest in a project usually once I’ve done the ‘interesting’ bit. Sometimes…
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Lovely blog Chris, made me smile and recognise a few things that I can relate to … now I really must find the fabric to make the quilt block I designed in 2019!
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Good to know we’re not alone . . .
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Your examples are fabulous. I imagined when writing a pattern that producing the final piece was the greatest challenge, but you have completed lots of lovely pieces here.
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Thank you , Maggie
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Thank you – that’s made me feel a whole lot better about all my UFO’s etc.
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Glad to help!!
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Painted Lupin 5 years, 9 months ago
I love lupins. They grew in our garden when I was little and I would pick the petals off and manipulate then like they were little mouths. I don’t think I’d seen one in years until a recent chance sighting at a B&M…
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Love the softness that the paints give. I can imagine a quilt using blocks just like this. Just a gorgeous design x
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The soft colours make that look fabulous. I put Lupins in my garden this year . Love it x
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Really original, and full of possibility. Lupins are a weed in New Zealand: I wish our weeds were as colourful!
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Love it x
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, #GFBH2020 SUNFLOWER 5 years, 9 months ago
Sunflowers are a particular favourite of mine, it just rings out ‘summer’ with their beautiful sunshine heads you could almost draw a smiley face on it. Who remembers Bill & Ben’s Little Weed? Not so much a weed…
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It is a cheery block for these grey days.
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Thankyou Maggie…sunshine flowers.x
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Beautiful block
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Thankyou Sandra..just been watching your great fmq videos.x
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Thankyou done a flower on on 17th 8 think but being not a great blog writer didn’t name it well but is 3D
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This is such a bright and happy block. I love the design and wow- your sunflowers are so tall!! x
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Another stunning block! I really like the 3D version you made originally, but not that practical in a quilt, is it?
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, BIRDNESTING? 5 years, 9 months ago
Birdnesting…a term used when you start machining and the threads get tangled up underneath causing a birds nest of threads…so annoying! A simple way to avoid this is to hold both top & bottom threads firmly bef…
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That’s a very enticing explanation. I might even chop up a few of my ( oh, but I might need a strange-shaped piece) scraps ready!
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Thanks Maggie x
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Books on machine quilting 5 years, 9 months ago
Last month I showed you my books on hand quilting and promised a peek at my machine quilting books this month. I think next month I will have to continue with quilting books – the ones with ideas and designs in t…
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I learnt so much from Harriet Hargreaves books too!
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Juliet Nice posted an update in the group
UKQU Social 5 years, 9 months agoUKQU Social is open to all quilters to chat about anything that isn’t to do with quilts! It’s a great place to tell stories and ask questions from a group of like minded women and men who are there to share their own experiences
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Meeting old friends 5 years, 10 months ago
The other day was fine – dry, warm, not raining – so a friend and I met up for a suitably socially-distanced picnic in my garden. I’d been over to visit Ann in her new garden (but not house!) just after the lockd…
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Your quilts are fabulous, how funny that you had forgotten about this quilt only to be reunited all these years later, must be fate
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Thank you, Amy. I have a lot of fun making my quilts – even if I do then forget their existence!
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Juliet Nice changed their profile picture 5 years, 10 months ago
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Antique Singer 5 years, 10 months ago
I’ve never quite understood the fascination of old sewing machines, why would you want an antiquated machine when the newer electric ones are all ‘bells & whistles’.
Then a few weeks ago an old Singer machine poppe…
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That is just so lovely. My grandmother brought one back from Saskatchewan where she had lived with her uncle around the start of WW1! I would love own that!
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Theme quilts and books 6 years ago
When it comes to designing a quilt it can sometimes help to go with a theme – especially for a sampler or a block of the month – such as ‘seaside’, ‘houses’, ‘trees’. You then have the entertaining task of finding…
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A very timely reminder in these times to look at what we have, and use it!
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