-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Hold It Precision Stiletto from Clover 1 year, 3 months ago
Clover is a well known company that have been making sewing tools for many years. I recently received the brilliant Hold It Precision Stiletto. Really handy for keeping your piecing in line and perfect. The thing…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, B700 Woven Interlining – A Quilter's Perspective 1 year, 6 months ago
It’s not often that I get a new (to me) product which surprises me but that’s what happened when I received the woven interlining B 700 from Vlieseline to try out. I thought it was a standard iron on interfacing whi…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Clover Desk Needle Threader 1 year, 7 months ago
The new Clover Desk Needle Threader turned up through my letterbox a couple of weeks ago whilst I was on holiday. (Northumbria on the East coast – my goodness it was stunning!) So I wasn’t able to test this as q…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Enhance Your Crafting: Project Bag and Block Nanny Featuring Style Vil Foam 1 year, 10 months ago
Some of you may know that Strictly Quilting has been running sewing retreats for a couple of years now in collaboration with Cecilia Slinn. We recently held our Summer Retreat where we had a fabulous time. There were…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, A Quilt Journey using Vlieseline 276 Wadding 2 years ago
If you’ve met me before at a show, in a class or on our wonderful retreats you may well also have met my Mum. We started our quilting journey together well over a decade ago at a local quilt shop and, as the saying g…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Summer Retreat Projects 2 years, 1 month ago
This year is passing so quickly. Easter has come and gone and the garden has started to grow even with all the rain. It’s about now I start to look forward to summer, hoping for a little sunshine to make us all f…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Vlieseline Wadding – 279 Soft Cotton Mix 80/20 2 years, 2 months ago
Well it’s been a bit of a while since I’ve done a lot of sewing. In January the family and I took to the slopes of Bulgaria for a ski trip and, you guessed it, I was taken out by a snowboarder on the first day and…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Vlieseline 276 – Natural Cotton Wadding 2 years, 6 months ago
Towards the start of this year I was hoping to host a Sew A-Long (SAL) series of blogs on my website Strictly Quilting. Well, sometimes life gets in the way by throwing the odd curve ball and I found things didn’t q…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Gütermann Deco Stitch 2 years, 6 months ago
Gütermann is one of the most popular thread producers having been around for decades. As a girl, the chap that used to service our sewing machine always recommended Gütermann thread and I still use it for a lot of m…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Gütermann Super Brite Thread 2 years, 9 months ago
There are many threads we can use which bring added glamour to our Free Motion Quilting. I’ve not used Gütermann Super Brite before so, when they sent me a sample to try, I was keen to have a go.
Gütermann Sup…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Garden Sew a Row – Picket Fence and Vlieseline P120 Volume Fleece. 2 years, 10 months ago
Late last year a group of five stitchers from the Bloggarati on UKQU, the lovely group who provide us with the Blogs on the website, got together to devise another free Sew a Row quilt. We did a pair of quilts a few…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Test of the New Iron On Non-woven Ironing Cloth. 2 years, 10 months ago
For protecting outer fabric when pressing and fusing.
This new non-woven pressing IRON ON Cloth from Vlieseline has been specifically designed for use with fusible interlinings, making it suitable for a wide…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Clover Sashiko Needles 3 years ago
The art of Sashiko been a big trend over the years and Clover has the perfect needles for your projects. I’ve never done Sashiko but have always wanted to have a go so, when Clover sent me some to try out, I was e…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Time for a Retreat? 3 years ago
I’ve just been looking at booking a holiday in our caravan. Chatsworth House has been on my visiting list for a long time and I think this year might be the time to visit the Peak District but I also LOVE taking t…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Clover Hot Hemmer 3 years, 2 months ago
These clever little rulers are used when you want to turn a fold over, be it on a hem of a garment or an edge of a quilt block. Hot Hemmers are made from nylon fibre board which is placed along the fold line, you…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Vlieseline Quickscreen 3 years, 3 months ago
This is new to me at Strictly Quilting – Quickscreen in both triangles and squares. I’ve not used it before so it was fun to give it a go. Quickscreen from Vlieseline is similar to a light interfacing, and has ma…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, There were a few butterflies! Sewing Retreats… 3 years, 3 months ago
Helen Kent and Cecilia Slinn announce the dates of two new Retreats for 2023…
by Cecilia Slinn.
The ‘Sewcial Retreat’, held last November in Bromsgrove, was the first time I was personally involved in the organ…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Bondaweb Charity Sign 3 years, 4 months ago
Bondaweb from Vlieseline is a mainstay for appliqué in patchwork and I recently had a project that needed just this product. One of my ladies that joins me on a Friday for my Sit and Sew classes was attending a…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Vlieseline R80 and Christmas Stockings 3 years, 5 months ago
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Strictly Quilting HQ. That time of year when we all panic to finish those projects that we’ve had all year to complete… “Oh yes, I’ll get stockings made for the two c…
-
Helen Kent wrote a new post, Oliso TG1600 ProPlus™ Iron – An Update. 3 years, 5 months ago
It’s been a while since I was lucky enough to have an Oliso iron to play with. (You can find the first review here.) They are quite expensive so quite an investment and, after using it for a few months now, I t…
- Load More
UK Quilters
