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Jane Galley wrote a new post, When Christmas Isn't the Happiest Time of The Year 6 years, 5 months ago
There are many reasons for not enjoying Christmas. It could be that you are far away from family or have lost a loved one. Anxiety or other mental health disorders mean sensory overload can cause distress. For some,…
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Under Pressure 6 years, 5 months ago
Until this challenge, I’d never really taken the time to stop and analyse song lyrics. I just sang the songs and enjoyed the music and where Queen is involved, I just love it. Although Bohemian Rhapsody has to be o…
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What an amazing and inventive interpretation. Well done Jane!
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Thank you Teresa, I enjoyed the challenge
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That was certainty a challenge, and you fulfilled it magnificently.
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thank you Maggie
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Very cleve interpretation. I like the slashed ‘love’ opening up to show the people. Don;t know what I would have done to this song….but I really like your way.
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Thank you Sue. It is difficult to know what to do sometimes, I kept thinking of other ways to do it
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Very challenging Jane…well done x
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Thank you Lyn x
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Jane Galley and
Ami Richards are now friends 6 years, 5 months ago
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, What colour is your Christmas? 6 years, 5 months ago
Christmas is traditionally red and green, I’m sure we all remember having a green tree and the tree lights with flower covers that had to be checked every year for that one bulb that died and stopped the whole t…
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Very thought provoking! There are some lovely fabrics there, they got me thinking….? Do I go up to raid my stash for the lovely red panel I have, or do I pray my other half doesn’t have a bright idea and decorate the house while I am out? Hnhmmm,….
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Doing a Runner 6 years, 5 months ago
It’s that time of year again – Christmas is looming, presents still to be bought/made, decorations to be found in the loft, rooms tidied away ready for visiting relatives and seemingly vast quantities of food to be…
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Super! What a lot of lovely runners! I too have a round table-what about doing a cruciform one?
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Guess what I’m making too? One down one to go … shush – don’t tell the family!
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Guess the song? 6 years, 6 months ago
My song title goes back to the 60s…here are a few teasers from my quilt…can you guess what it is?…
Guessed it yet?….Here is the full quilt…
This was written by Lennon an…
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Wow! Great idea Lyn! And such a neat quilt. Didn’t know that about Penny Lane and can’t believe Paul McCartney is 78!
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Thanks Ruth x
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Double A side with “Strawberry fields for ever” ?
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I guessed it too. Very clever Lyn. Beautifully sewn.
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Sparkles, the penny, the street sign, just fabulous, as we said in 1963
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Jane Galley and
Judith Clarke are now friends 6 years, 6 months ago
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Lyn Butler recommended the post Block Drive 6 years, 6 months ago
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Block Drive 6 years, 6 months ago
I recently participated in a block drive for Q4CL – the charity working with the Gold from the Stone Foundation. Many of you will already know this charity provides careleavers with a dinner at Christmas, and Q…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, GEESE FLYING HOME 6 years, 7 months ago
Each month the Q4CL Group are encouraging their members to send just one extra block .. and these are being put together as single pattern quilts for donation at Christmas to the Gold from the Stone Foundation. …
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A really clear, well-illustrated explanation. Thank you. That “tad to the right” explains why they have been so difficulty previously.
I even bought a book on flying geese. It didn’t help as much as this.-
Thankyou so much Maggie, so pleased it helped x
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Aldi fabric – What's that all about? 6 years, 7 months ago
Over the last decade or so, a decline in small speciality shops has seen a surge in the supermarket…er.. market. In my small town we now have a Morrisons, tiny Tesco, giant Tesco, giant Asda, Iceland AND an Iceland…
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Great blog Julia x
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Juliet Nice recommended the post Idea for a non-traditional sampler quilt 6 years, 7 months ago
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Churn Dash 6 years, 7 months ago
Just lately I’ve been involved with a block drive for Quilts For Care Leavers. There’s more information about the project here in this website. The issue has been not everyone has the time to create a full qu…
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What a superbly well explained and illustrated piece!
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Gosh…thankyou Maggie x
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Malvern Revisited 6 years, 7 months ago
It has been a very long time since I last went to the quilt show at Malvern. So I took the opportunity to get a door to door lift from our son in law who could visit a relative living just around the corner from The…
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Thanks for that view of the UKQU quilts Lyn Butler. Recognise most of them from the previous competitions. A cornucopia of wonderful ideas and talent .
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Thanks Teresa x
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Vendulka Battais wrote a new post, Living Wild Quilt 6 years, 7 months ago
Have you ever heard of digitally printed fabrics?? The technology these days is moving forward in everything and the production of the fabrics is no exception. I had the opportunity to test a series of digitally…
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, A Wedding Stole 6 years, 8 months ago
Earlier this year my brother, a widower, announced he had ‘met someone’. Not only that but they were getting married the next month. Cue much family panic – insufficient time to buy an ‘outfit’; how grand a wedding,…
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Chris, what a wonderful story, you are so clever to have made such a meaningful stole. I wouldn’t have known where to begin. Congratulations to your brother and his new wife.
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Thank you, Ami. I had a lot of help – from the book I had and from my niece.
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Inspired by Scraps 6 years, 9 months ago
I’ve spent most of the summer travelling and now it’s back to work. There changes going on at home so it’s been difficult getting back into the swing of making, but tidying my fabric boxes has been inspi…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Gütermann Variegated Thread 6 years, 9 months ago
I was very happy to be given the opportunity to review some Gutermann threads which eventually arrived in a neat pack of 10 premium quality cotton in some lovely colours.
I was working on a rainbow theme…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Mix & Match Cushions 6 years, 9 months ago
We’ve had our Ercol dining room table and chairs for over 50 years and thought it needed a ‘service’.
I left school at 15 ( yep I’m that old!) and went straight into work at Ercol Furniture in the accounts departm…
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And very nice too! I have 4 swanbacks and the original cushions-long past their date-which press stud under the seat. I really should follow your example…
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Simple Shapes . . . 6 years, 9 months ago
. . . . Stunning Quilts – the title of Stuart Hillards’s new book says it all. The five main chapters each take a simple shape (or combination of those shapes) to make twenty very different blocks and quilts. Whe…
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6 years, 5 months ago
What a lovely kind gesture.
6 years, 5 months ago
Thank you 🙂