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Sue Burford recommended the post Why I don’t sell my quilts 8 years, 3 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Pressing for Perfect Points Part 1 8 years, 3 months ago
Achieving perfect points in patchwork is a great goal. The key involves knowing when to break one of the rules that you may have been taught!
Beginners are often taught to “always press behind the darker f…
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What a great post – covering just about every scenario!
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Thanks Abigail – only half the scenarios actually – there’s more to come!
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So informative – thank you
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Thanks Amy – glad you found it useful. It’s these little tips that really do make a difference – planning avoids unpicking!
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Sue Burford recommended the post Carol Munro -AKA The Quilting Procrastinator 8 years, 3 months ago
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Sue Burford recommended the post Confused about which needle to use .. this might help! 8 years, 3 months ago
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Sue Burford recommended the post A Mad Month in the Patchwork and Fabric Industry 8 years, 3 months ago
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Sue Burford recommended the post Making new friends – join a quilting bee 8 years, 3 months ago
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Sue Burford recommended the post Just another love story? Triple love! 8 years, 4 months ago
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Vendulka Battais recommended the post Journey of a New Long Arm Quilter 8 years, 4 months ago
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Juliet Nice recommended the post Colour & Contrast 8 years, 4 months ago
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Vendulka Battais recommended the post Have you heard of QUILTING POLICE?? 8 years, 4 months ago
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Sarah Wickett wrote a new post, Doughty's Fabric Roadshows 8 years, 4 months ago
On a rather dull and wet Saturday in February, I set of with a car full of ladies to Fremingtom, North Devon. Why you might ask, Well Crosspatch Quilters were hosting a Doughty’s Fabric Roadshow.
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Great Review, Sarah, and totally matches my experience of a Doughty’s roadshow (near Brigg, Lincolnshire). I’m definitely hoping to get to more of these in the future.
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The link above will tell you were there roadshows visit, I always try to get to Fremington every year. A small group of quilters put on a good show and deserve my support. Of course there is always the fabric
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It was indeed well worth a visit! I really shouldn’t admit to going to it, especially given the title and overall message of my blog this month (to be published tomorrow), but I did indulge in fabric purchases.
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Christine, I am on a fabric ban but needed wadding so went along, it was good just to stroke the fabric
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I should be on a fabric ban, but as I’m making Project Linus quilts – I justify it that way! It certainly was good to stroke the fabric, and I had a lovely chat with one of the Doughty’s chaps.
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Backing Fabric Calculator 8 years, 4 months ago
Wondering how much fabric you need to back your quilt? – try this one found by Ruth Burns Warren.
Twin is what Americans a single bed. Why do they squeeze twins in a single bed? Bit mean surely?! 😉
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Colour & Contrast 8 years, 4 months ago
Choosing fabrics for a quilt is something that many people would like to do, but lack confidence for. They are not sure why the colours that looked good in the shop don’t seem to give the result they hoped f…
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really enjoyed this, very informative & comprehensive, thank you very much xx
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Thanks Carol – colour is so important, isn’t it? Glad this was helpful.
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Amazing, absolutely brilliant piece!
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Thanks Juliet
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Great blog Carolyn!
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Thanks Lyn
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Excellent post Carolyn.This could do with being in the files of UKQU as a good-habit guide for beginners (or indeed anyone who has never had a good colour habit). ‘Thunderstorm’is spectacular!
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Thanks Karin – I”ll look how to do that tomorrow. I have put it on my own website too.
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Great article, so many helpful tips – thank you!
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Thanks Amy – why not post some photos on the Facebook page if you do some successful experimenting?
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This is so helpful Carolyn, it’s something I struggle with sometimes, especially when buying fabric. I end up with lots of beatiful unusual prints in gorgeous bright colours, then when I sit down to make something I find I have to get online and buy some plains. Thanks for writing such a comprehensive blog post on the topic .
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Glad it was helpful Alison – we all know that tempting feeling in the shop! Hope you can look out for some fabrics to complement the eye candy next time.
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I’ve just downloaded your free pdf summary for reference, thank you!
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Hope it proves a useful reference for you. Why not post the results of your next test fabric shop on the Facebook group so we can all see the “colour and contrast?
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I have only just seen this blog Carolyn, it’s a really helpful guide. I enjoy the challenge of finding the right fabric mix and your detailed explanation has enlightened me as to why some of my experiments don’t work! Thank you for an excelllent read.
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Thanks Heather – glad it was helpful. I look forward to seeing the results in your next quilt!
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Thank you for this in-depth explanation, the photos are very helpful.
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Hope it helps you select colours more confidently from now on, Chris
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This is so much more useful that they usual colour theory writing.
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Thanks Maggie – yes, I must agree that I don’t personally find colour wheels very helpful
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, Obsessive Compulsive Crafting Obsession – by Juliet 8 years, 4 months ago
The Wandering Way quilt – or ‘how to make the best of a bad job’
Disclaimer – this is an old kit and the pattern and fabrics may no longer be available.
So Mo had me dig out some of my kits, I have a few This is…
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I feel your pain (with cutting it wrong). Great insight into others troubles with using lovely fabric. Thank you for sharing and being so honest
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I get downhearted when I see lovely quilts and imagine everyone is getting them right first time (unlike me!). Thanks for sharing Juliet. Lovely quilt you have there; even if not quite finished yet.
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A really interesting read and you can’t beat a good flange .. I am rapidly being converted to the idea of a kit, apart from the fear of cutting it wrong! Abbie Searle’s Mystery Quilt will be dispatched soon so I am looking forward to that .. but cutting the fabric will be a big thing for me. What tips would you suggest to avoid anxiety of that, apart from a large glass of vodka?
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The old measure twice! Take it slow, mark on your pattern as you have cut and cut as you go rather than cut it all out before sewing. Basically not what I did 😉 Cutting as you go forces you to slow down too so you are paying more attention.
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Perhaps avoid the large glass of vodka until AFTER the cutting LOL
With the 365 (not a kit btw, but enough pieces and very complex to make it feel like the chosen fabric is a somewhat scarce resource) I sometimes planned out the cutting into a chart, and ticked as I went, and had labelled paper plates on the floor around the walls of the room to put the various pieces on according to the chart ! Sounds a bit OTT ? Then I ‘challenge’ you to have a go at some of the more intricate 365 blocks ! !
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I enjoyed the way you write! Makes me feel better about my ‘bad’ cutting, if others have the same problem.
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Very comforting to know that I am not the only one to get things upside down, inside out, and back to front, some [most] days! Lol ! I reckon that your beautiful black and white butterfly quilt is going to look amazing once finished. How about some regular straight-line quilting to hold it all together, and then go back for some FMQ another time (in a few days/weeks/months) aaannnddd, meanwhile, your mini-flange-demo-quilt (and thank you for that too btw, brilliant) might be the perfect playground for practising your FMQ too – yay hey, win win x
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You are the queen of flange
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Hi Juliet – i normally do this type of Flange on my quilts! Great minds…..
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, February 2018 Competition – Trudy’s Quilt 8 years, 4 months ago
In January 2018 we set a challenge to the Six Administrators of UK Quilters United to choose a quilt from the ones the members posted onto the Facebook group feed.
They were transferred to Competition Corner and…
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