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Nina wrote a new post, Create a unique Valentine's Day gift or a treasured Memory Cushion 4 years, 4 months ago
Unfortunately, we can’t always be with our loved ones; sometimes because they live too far away, and in other cases because they are no longer with us. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to sha…
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post FINISHIn praise of a word for the year 4 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, FINISHIn praise of a word for the year 4 years, 4 months ago
Last year I had a word of the year for the first time – my word last year was ‘FOCUS’. This year I’ve chosen ‘FINISH’ as my word for the year.
It may seem strange to have such a word as my word for the year – a wo…
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Judith Clarke wrote a new post, Gullivers Christmas Adventure 4 years, 5 months ago
2 weeks before Christmas back in 202I decided to write a Christmas story for my grandsons, who were staying from the 21st. Aged 6 and 4 I couldn’t find a story I thought they would like, a story that had a few mo…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Birthday Bunting 4 years, 5 months 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 4 years, 5 months 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 wrote a new post, Fit for an Angel 4 years, 5 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 4 years, 5 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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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, Focus revisited 4 years, 7 months ago
It is a chilly early October day – well, it feels chilly to me as I’m sat here on my chaise longue in my sewing room, surrounded by fabric. That sounds very exotic and posh doesn’t it? I’m going to let you carry o…
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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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Ami Richards wrote a new post, My first ever mini quilt swap 4 years, 8 months ago
Back in late June I saw posts on the UKQU Facebook page, talking about a mini quilt swap, I had never done any type of a quilt swap before, and I was immediately intrigued. I had been in a bit of a sewing slump and…
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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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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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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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