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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, A Retreat's Tale. 4 years, 8 months ago
Recently I was exited to be able to join what was the second (somewhat delayed) annual retreat for an intrepid group of quilters collectively known as ‘Lady Chattey’s Quilt Lovers’. Thirteen ladies travelled to Denha…
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Nina wrote a new post, October 2021 UKQU Book Club 4 years, 8 months ago
As promised, or threatened, the October book in the UKQU book club is another quilting mystery book. It is called The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse and is the first book in the Cats in Trouble Mystery series of…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Grandmother's Flower Garden 4 years, 8 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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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Fabric Review – Around the World by Makower UK 4 years, 8 months ago
I was sent a sample pack of Around The World by Makower UK. Sample packs usually have 10″ squares but this one was a bit different- they included a full panel! It had the panel of a world map, and nine 10″ squ…
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It looks great Juliet.
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, MAKOWER LANDSCAPES 4 years, 8 months ago
I am delighted to review these lovely new fabrics from Makower. This is their beautiful collection of nature inspired fabrics which are perfect, especially if you love to make pictorial quilts.
The fabrics are 100%…
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Such gorgeous fabrics!
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Nina wrote a new post, September 2021 UKQU Book Club 4 years, 9 months ago
With the days getting shorter, I’ve lined up a few quilting mystery books for the next few months. Starting us off is Quilt or Innocence: A Southern Quilting Mystery, by Elizabeth Craig. The book is available as…
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Güttermann Creativ Threads 4 years, 9 months ago
I was sent this gorgeous pack of Güttermann 100% cotton 30 weight thread to review. This thread is slightly thicker than the thread you would use for quilt piecing, making it perfect for hand or machine quilting, as…
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, A Rainbow Plague Mask… 4 years, 9 months ago
So I had this crazy idea at 3am, mid April 2021. A rainbow plague mask to send to the Festival of Quilts. I nearly didn’t sleep at all thinking about it. Thankfully I did sleep, so I was alert enough the next day t…
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that’s brilliant Juliet, well done
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Well done! Inspired and inspiring! Maybe more of us will follow your lead next time?
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What a great imagination you have Juliet, well done you!
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Carolyn Gibbs recommended the post Not the blog I intended to write 4 years, 10 months ago
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Nina wrote a new post, August 2021 UKQU Book Club 4 years, 10 months ago
I’m writing this on my tablet as we’re away at the moment, so it’ll be a short post this time.The book for August is called Birds in the Air and it is written by Frances O’Roark Dowell.
Emma has rece…
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, UKQU Mini Swap – What's your Swap Mumma up to? Part 1 4 years, 10 months ago
Over in our Facebook group UK Quilters United, we’ve completed seven Mini Swaps since 2015.
In the simplest explanation possible you are allocated a team and given the name of another team member to make a mini…
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, The Mini Quilts are coming! 4 years, 11 months ago
Yes it’s that time again, the UK Quilters United Mini Swap is up and running.
This is the 8th Mini Swap, which started in 2015 , but we did two during 2018, just for fun!
The ‘You know what’ is (touch wood) winding…
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That is great news!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts Exhibition at the Bowes: Part 2 Patchwork quilts 4 years, 11 months 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…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts at the Bowes Part 1: Strippy quilts 4 years, 11 months 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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Nina wrote a new post, July 2021 UKQU Book Club 4 years, 11 months ago
The book for July in the UKQU Book Club is The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie.Linked by a sewing machine, we meet the three main characters Jean, Connie and Fred in this sweet Scottish story…
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Vendulka Battais wrote a new post, Use it or lose it – now more relevant than ever!! 4 years, 11 months ago
The long winter lockdown is over and retail has now been open for nearly three months. We are all happy that we can see our family and have a chatter over coffee with a friend. Unfortunately not everything is as…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, MAKOWER UK SCANDI 2021 5 years ago
I am delighted to be able to review Makower’s Scandi 2021 Christmas fabrics. These xmas fabrics come in reds and greys and they are particularly gorgeous with a delicate touch of metallic detailing.
Makower f…
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Nina wrote a new post, June 2021 UKQU Book Club 5 years ago
Spring is almost over and for June we’re turning to some Amish romance with the first book in the Quilter’s Son series by Samantha Bayarr. The book is called Liam’s choice.
Liam has secretly attended school…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, HEMLINE GOLD 5 years ago
I’m delighted to be given the opportunity to test these lovely sewing notions from Hemline Gold…
The generous pack of sixty pins are plastic head pins and a nice long length for han…
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