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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, HNY, Happy New Mystery!! ……Hare it is!!! 2 years, 5 months ago
Hi Everybody!! Where does the time go? Hard to believe I’m sat here writing this on New Years Day 2024! Hope you’ve all had a fabulous 2023 patchwork and quilting?
It wouldn’t be New Year for me if I didn’t hav…
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Nina wrote a new post, Roll it up – UKQU Sewing Challenge 3 years, 3 months ago
Roll it up – UKQU Sewing Challenge
It’s time to reveal the FOURTH project in the UKQU Sewing Challenge; a laid back, ‘join as you can and let’s have some fun’ challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting…
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That’s lovely Nina, it’s now on my list to make and to share with my WI Craft group.
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, 'Through the Window' – the next Mystery Quilt BOM! – How?? 3 years, 4 months ago
Hello Everybody!
I’ve been some busy!! – I had already designed and made a quilt but decided against it for the next mystery….why?The process of deciding on a design is always a bit fraught for me,…
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Nina wrote a new post, Bags, bags, bags – UKQU Sewing Challenge 3 years, 5 months ago
Hello and welcome to the third part of the UKQU Sewing Challenge; a challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create other things than quilts, such as for example garments, accessories, or…
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Nina recommended the post Ange’s Lost Christmas Spirit 3 years, 5 months ago
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Dinosaurs For The Win! 3 years, 7 months ago
How cute are these dinosaurs?
This pattern by Lynne Goldsworthy has 4 super cute dinosaurs to applique and uses dinosaur fabric and 4-patches to make a lovely child’s quilt 58″ square.
The fabric range is…
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Gorgeous idea.
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Nina wrote a new post, Wrapping up summer – UKQU Sewing Challenge 3 years, 8 months ago
Hello and welcome back to the UKQU Sewing Challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create garments, accessories, things for the home and perhaps also something for charity. Please read on to…
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Nina recommended the post The Cheap Procrastinator: Product Review, Clover Fabric Tube Maker. 3 years, 8 months ago
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Nina wrote a new post, Get your head in the game – UKQU Sewing Challenge 3 years, 11 months ago
Hello and welcome to the UKQU Sewing Challenge where we are using our patchwork and quilting skills to create garments, accessories, things for the home and perhaps also something for charity. We’ll be embarking on v…
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Thanks Nina x
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Lyn, I realise you’ve got a bit of a headstart on this one! I’m wondering if postage stamp / round the world blocks would look amazing for this 😉
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, No Mojo!…… but then, Japanese Folded Patchwork! 3 years, 11 months ago
The last few months for me have been very strange, family duties needing to be done. As many of you are no doubt aware, it takes a toll from creativity and what we generally refer to as our ‘Mojo’ did a runner on…
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Nina wrote a new post, UKQU Sewing Challenge – coming soon 3 years, 12 months ago
Not sure if you’ve been visiting our Facebook group UK Quilters United recently, but I floated the idea of starting a set of challenges inspired by the BBC series Great British Sewing Bee, but with a patchwork and q…
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Exciting, and maybe really revitalising for all of us who have lost his/her sparkle.
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Hopefully! I’m working on coming up with the first few challenges at the moment and I’m getting tempted to sew again myself.
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Nina wrote a new post, UKQU book club – The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan 4 years ago
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan is a brand new book due to be published at the end of May (eBook and Audio versions) and the printed version a week or so later.
I was expecting this to…
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Carol Munro wrote a new post, English Rule – Rulers and Templates 4 years ago
I was asked to review some new quilting rulers which are now available, these are made by Mark Pickering at sewonsewforth.co.uk. Mark’s mother runs classes and was finding students were struggling with the use of r…
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, 'Quilts from the Cupboard' – a quilt display from my students & myself 4 years, 1 month ago
Hi All!
Just thought I’d scribble a quick update having attended my first main quiltshow since, well, a long time ago!!
It was so much fun to be back out there and teaching again, 6 workshops a day for 3 days -…
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I really enjoyed seeing them at the event. Superb.
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Thanks Maggie, the ladies have done fabulously!!
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, Fanfare!! 4 years, 2 months ago
Just a heads up for everyone, my next Mystery BOM (Block of the month) will be starting very soon!!
The fabrics are picked, the design is in my head…….. just got to make it and write a few patterns now!!
Those…
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Nina wrote a new post, UKQU book club – Hope on the inside, by Marie Bostwick 4 years, 2 months ago
A fictional book about Hope Carpenter who has spent most of her life raising four children (all have now flown the nest) and running the household whilst her husband Rick has been working.
After Rick is…
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, Another Sunflower it is then!! 🙂 4 years, 3 months ago
Sylvia – the lady responsible for the UKQU Website put a challenge out to us Bloggers for some new patterns and blogs with flowers as the subject. A specific flower would be allocated to us as individuals…. now t…
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AbbieAnne wrote a new post, Fibonacci Spiral Mystery Block of the month!! 4 years, 3 months ago
Hello All!
I know I say this every time I write a blog, but where does the time go?? (……having fun completing a mystery BOM perhaps?) It’s just about March already, hopefully we’re all still safe after germs & st…
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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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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Now's the time to Get It Finished! 4 years, 5 months ago
Welcome to crazy town! Well, more like crazy world right now eh? But all is not lost, you now have 12 weeks to get up to date on all those UFO’s, WIP’s and all the niggling little jobs around the house that you kee…
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