Bless you Helen. I needed to wake up this morning to a happy place & a person sharing such positive thoughts about how it’s great to be eccentric & wonky!

Christine, it sounds as if you had a lovely day out with your friend and her daughter. So pleased you met Mo Jones in person, she does so much for UKQU in terms of the stand at that exhibition & the UKQU postcard swaps, & now the A4 mini quilts initiative will be really exciting. You are absolutely right though about trying other things. I was an…[Read more]

As always, a complete joy, to see things put so simply, to help you achieve something that looks so great!

Great article. I made a quilt from 4 orphan blocks from a friend, and then just added to it using scraps and corner stones & sashing strips, until I ran out of fabric, no real pattern in mind. Nice to know there was some method to my madness and it has a real name, rather than my name “Winging It”!

How wonderful of EQS, we are all so inspired to make this happen as volunteer makers, this is the icing on the cake!

I adore red-work, I used to do it myself a long time ago, and have some antique German red-work in the loft somewhere. I must have a rummage! Nice to see it is making a comeback.

There are some beautiful things there, and the historical background is interesting, but my absolute favourite is the stained glass heart!

I was there Carol at the retreat, and I was complete amazed by the way you pulled all these disparate blocks together to such a vibrant wonderful conclusion. That quilt will certainly give a Quilty Hug to a care leaver & contribute to such a wonderful initiative.

Helen. I missed this when you first published it, so I am very pleased that on UKQU’s 5th Birthday you chose to share it again. Such a precious story! Beautiful quilt, combined with such thought & planning. Your award at Malvern was thoroughly deserved.

I love both your amazing pictures. Having done a charity project about 12 years ago for 3 weeks in a township in Clarens in the Golden Gate Highlands near Lesotho, they really brought back some amazing memories.

What amazing prizes from such generous sponsors

Have heard a lot about weighted quilts, have had friends ask me to make them, but the research about child weight to quilt weight was a step too far for my calculator & brain. I have heard it helps with SEN (Special Educational Needs) pupils, but was not prepared to endanger them (some of my friends children) by getting it wrong. So why is weight…[Read more]

Get well soon Denise, I fear the only thing I will be taking to hospital in August is my Kindle, but I have some fabric box kits that look fun with all the carboard bits cut out, so may cut some material pre-op so I can fiddle around with it while I am there … haven’t done one of those for over 20 years

Great blog … It’s not just about travel though, can also be when you are in hospital yourself or visiting someone who is there for a while …. I am cutting out material to go with a couple of unusual fabric box kits that have card frames as my sewing recovery therapy while I am in hospital

Hello Scott Fortunoff & SO lovely to see you here …..I heard about the Free Spirit situation from a dear friend Philp Jacobs … (Kaffe Fasset Collection & Snow Leopard)….but 2 days before that even happened, I had spotted an out of print v rare book on my huge bookshelf …. All about Caucasian Rugs, … lots of great pictures & amazing…[Read more]

I love Laurel Burch designs which I first came across in San Francisco & San Diego in the v early 2000’s. I bought scarves, T shirts, greetings cards, calendars, mugs etc. I have acquired some vintage fabric pieces now, and more recently purchased some of the new lines being revived by her daughter.

Hello from Oxfordshire too Val … I saw a bag kit from Japan Crafts at a retreat made by a lovely lady there, fell in love with the fabrics and designs, so bought some kits too. Packing for my next retreat will be so much easier, just one shoe box of kits to take instead of the angst of deciding what to cut/make/do. I love your interpretation of…[Read more]