Ruth Garner
@ruthgarner
Ruth Garner
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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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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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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, Preparing for a Retreat 3 years, 7 months ago
I’m writing this a week before the Bloggerati retreat – and it could well be the last Bloggerati retreat. I feel sad should this be the case, as the retreat has given me the chance to meet like-minded people and to…
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Looking forward to it too…don’t forget the all important cushion
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And a good time was had by all Chris! Nice to know I’m not the only one in ‘socks’ to machine sew (and iron!) and think I’ll check out the ‘bottom’ of my machine too!
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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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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Using Heat and Bond Liquid Vinyl 3 years, 10 months ago
It’s taken a while after moving to get back into a routine for making. The bonus is that I have a sewing room at home as well as the studio. It’s a great distraction from other things I should be doing. Gettin…
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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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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, A new machine! 3 years, 11 months ago
For some years I have been eyeing up longarm quilting machines, dreaming of having one. I bought a Gracie frame for my domestic sewing machine, with the intention of becoming fairly proficient on it, but the frame…
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Obsessive Compulsive Quilting Disorder 3 years, 11 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post What’s a Block Drive? 3 years, 11 months ago
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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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Jane Galley wrote a new post, How do you do your borders? 4 years ago
As years go by, it is so easy to just do the things we always do. During one of my community classes, one of my students asked me to show her how to do mitred corners on the borders of her quilt. It made me r…
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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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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Bluebell Wood 4 years, 1 month ago
I love this time of year. Every morning on my way to work, I drive past a small wood. Through the trees, as I go up the hill, I can spy the bluebells. As I go up round the corner, the wood just opens up and th…
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Bluebell Wood Disappearing Nine Patch 4 years, 1 month ago
It’s been a rather hectic few weeks with packing, weddings and a dose of Covid. Precious sewing time in the studio has been very limited. You will remember last time, I shared with you the beautiful Bluebell Woo…
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Lovely, I have never sewn a disappearing nine patch
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they are fun to do and so many different variations too
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I hope we get to see the final piece; it looks lovely.
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I’m still working on it, I’ll definitely share it with you
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Bluebell Woods 4 years, 2 months ago
It’s always with anticipation that I wait to see what Sylvia will assign as my challenge. The last challenge was spring flowers and I was delighted to get bluebells. I drive past a bluebell wood on my way to work s…
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Love Bluebell woods. I used to visit Perry Woods in Kent as a child. I also wear a Blue Bell scent from Penhaligon apparently the late Lady Diana’s favourite. I digress. Love the delicate print & hues of your fabrics. I look forward to seeing what you create with them♡
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They are lovely fabrics, I’ll be sharing the next stage with you soon. Got lots going on at the moment so have limited time for sewing
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Great, I will be following. Enjoy the springtime.
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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, Girl's Day Out 4 years, 2 months ago
I love a Block of the Month – I mean, I REALLY love them. I will confess to having several on the go at the moment, and one of them is Girl’s Day Out. I saw this advertised on the Villavin Crafts Facebook page, and…
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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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Marijke Van Welzen wrote a new post, Let's make a Patchwork jacket Technique II Crazy Quilting 4 years, 2 months ago
A technique I like to use is Crazy Quilting. I made several jackets in this technique. First I sort my scraps in the desired colours, see an earlier post in these series.
Start on a base of fusible interfacing…
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Ruth Garner
@ruthgarner
Ruth Garner
3 years, 2 months ago
That’s lovely Nina, it’s now on my list to make and to share with my WI Craft group.