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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Sew Easy Flexible Curve 7 years, 4 months ago
The Quilter’s Flexible Curve is the perfect tool for creating your own designs, especially those involving wavy or curved lines. As the name suggests it is a very flexible tool and will hold its shape un…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, New notions from Clover 7 years, 4 months ago
CLover are always coming up with clever notions to help improve our crafts.
This set of seam markers allows you to neatly draw seam lines along the edges of any pattern or template, whatever the shape. Suitable…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Monsoon – the new fabric range from Makower UK 7 years, 4 months ago
Tonal flowers, stripes, spots and even a cockatoo all add to this vibrant new range from Makower UK. Known for their wide variety of 100% cotton fabrics, they have put together a colourful pallette of fuschias, t…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Craft4Crafters Show, Westpoint Centre, Exeter. 14TH – 16TH February 2019 7 years, 4 months ago
The South West’s favourite Needle & Hobby Craft show returns to the Westpoint, Centre in Exeter, the show runs from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th February 2019, doors opening 10am – 5pm every day.
Returning to…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts for Christmas Dinners: a review of 2018 7 years, 4 months ago
Maggie Lloyd-Jones’ ‘Quilts for Careleavers Christmas Dinners’ project captured our imagination .. she started in October and by Christmas Eve 2018 had 125 Quilts donated. How did that happen ….
Orphan bl…
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Mo Jones wrote a new post, UK QUILTERS UNITED Facebook 5th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 7 years, 4 months ago
Our Facebook group UK Quilters United is turning five years old already. My how time flies when you’re having fun. With almost 16,000 members the group is a thriving community sharing pictures, questions and…
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Wow!
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What amazing prizes from such generous sponsors
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Wow, some fantastic prizes, thank you to all the generous members who donated
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, February 2019 Competition Sponsored jointly by Gutermann and Groves 7 years, 4 months ago
The 2018 series of competitions were so popular
Grosvenor Shows have asked us to carry onThroughout February we celebrated the RSPB, asking for q…
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I can see the rules only allow up to 42” but I can’t see a closing date or any other restrictions?
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Hi Maggie and thanks for the question. The text body of the competition above asks you to upload your competition entries to the UK Quilters United Facebook Group and the top six quilts liked by the members there will be uploaded to this page on 25th February for a further week of voting for the two top faves. If you have any further questions please ask away and we hope to see your entry.
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Thank you Sylvia. I did see that butwas not sure how much before 25th they must be displayed in facebook?
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Hi Margaret .. have you looked at the March and April competitions. The sooner the quilt entries appear in the FB Group the more likes you will attract. Hope we will see an entry from you.
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I was so excited to find I had won this competition and thank you to everyone that voted for me.
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You are very welcome. We hope you will enter further competitions coming up too and are looking forward to seeing all the lovely quilts at the Grosvenor Show Exhibitions later this year.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter posted an update in the group
UKQU BOOK CLUB 7 years, 4 months agoWe had great hopes for this group, but unfortunately, we no longer have someone available to drive things forward for you. If anyone would be willing to run this Group then please get back to me, otherwise, I am afraid we will close the Book Club as there is simply not enough time in the day for me to do this alone. Would anyone like to take…[Read more]
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Denise Inkson wrote a new post, The Cheap Procrastinator – New you and away to sew! 7 years, 4 months ago
Happy Birthday to the United Kingdom Quilters United website, it has been a whole year since the website became live, with almost 553,000 hits – views for the period January 9th 2018 to January 9th 2019- over the f…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Happy First Birthday to Us 7 years, 4 months ago
How did that happen then! A whole year since we launched our website!
12 months. 365 days of quilting just flew by.Have you all enjoyed it? Have you joined in? Are you a member yet!
We could look…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts for Christmas Dinners 2019 7 years, 4 months ago
Imagine you are 18, been in care most of your life, and next week you will be living on your own for the first time, with no one other than your overworked social worker to turn to. This is the situation for…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts from the Estate of Hannah Hauxwell 7 years, 4 months ago
Thirteen lots of quilts and textiles from the estate of Hannah Hauxwell are to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Costume, Fashion and Textiles Sale on 9th February, in their North Yorkshire S…
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These are wonderfully evocative quilts with such a distinctive provenance. I love the two frame quilts, which also have tantalising glimpses of lovely quilting.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts for Christmas Dinners: was the fourth (chapter) with us ?? 7 years, 5 months ago
If you have been following the Quilts for Christmas Dinners you will maybe already have seen posts from Maggie Lloyd-Jones who started this amazing project. Sometimes things happen that reach out to us all .. this…
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Just brilliant Maggie.
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Fab..u…lous Maggie
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Never a crossword just a Christmas Crossword 7 years, 5 months ago
Sue Burford has created a clever little crossword to keep you thinking whilst you wrap your presents and sip the gin this lovely Christmas Eve.
Download Christmas Crossword
Keep an eye out for the answers.
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Thank you Sue, I’ve just printed it off. Merry Christmas to you!
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Thank you, I am going to give this a try.
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Denise Inkson wrote a new post, The Cheap Procrastinator – Bah Bah Humbug 7 years, 5 months ago
Hands up, for those that hate Christmas, it is okay to say ME. I do, I hate it with a passion.
What do I hate about it?
• The sense of profound loneliness despite being in a room full of people• Lon…
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People seem to forget its to celebrate Jesus’s Birthday ! And I’m not religious..
Top tips from me include
1 house sit for friends who go away for Christmas so you get to see a nice tree for a few days then come home to a tatt free house
2 visit a country where Christianity is not a popular religion, highly recommend India-
That sounds like a very good idea..
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I don’t like the commercialism of Christmas, and I certainly don’t like the stress of it. The sooner I can get everything prepared and done, the better. We are having a buffet style meal – I’ve ordered the salads and sandwiches, – well, when you could have 10 people dropping in (stepsons, grandchildren and others) it is a lot easier, and it is something that I want to eat. I would have liked to to have Christmas Day to ourselves, and have Christmas 2 on Boxing Day, but that isn’t to be this year. Once we’ve done presents, I like the idea of time doing what each of us want to do. I’m not going to be caught up in the ‘what we should do’ trick – the day is what we make it, and when you have fostered children and young people for a while, you become adept at altering your expectations for the day, and going with the flow. I totally agree with you about the getting into debt – it is so unnecessary, and unhelpful.
I wish you a peaceful, restful, and joyous holiday.
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May your day be a good one.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts for Christmas Dinners joined the Bloggerati Retreat 7 years, 5 months ago
This was my first quilting retreat, held last few days of November and over Sylvia’s birthday. I’m told that the rule is “what happens on retreat stays on retreat”, i.e. no telling tales. Ha ! I’m a rule breaker………
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Totally amazing!
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Inspiring and heart warming.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Barnyarns .. the dawn of a new era 7 years, 6 months ago
Banyarns have always been a great friend of ours here at the UKQU website and were one of the first companies to offer their support to our regular competitions with prizes and rewards, so when we started to…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Bloggerati on Retreat – Day two .. the takeover! 7 years, 6 months ago
Day two dawned early and it was chilly outside, but no one at the Bloggerati Retreat was bothered about the weather. All the workstations were set up and manned from early doors. The joy of it all was bein…
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Love it!!!
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Helen’s impromptu demos were brilliant, she made it all look so easy
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Sounds wonderful.
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What a lovely day you had. And what a super bunch of bloggers!
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How wonderful. This is what life is about – good times with great friends. Makes me quite envious. So pleased you had a good birthday an what a brilliant idea for a cake!
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Sounds like a near perfect birthday!
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Day one — Bloggerati on Retreat 7 years, 6 months ago
Friday, 30th November dawned chilly and damp .. but across the UK the Bloggers of UKQU were stuffing their cars with machines and fabric ready for the journey to the FIrst Annual Bloggerati on Retreat. You could s…
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Fab weekend. Great people, great sewing, great food.
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Not sure about those photos! Fab weekend though.
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So sad I was unable to make this weekend. Sounds like it was a good one!
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Looking forward to hearing more.
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Fantastic weekend and so special to see such a poignant quilt!
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Say hello to Kelly Cline 7 years, 6 months ago
We are constantly on the lookout for fresh ideas and new people and at FOQ this year I was lucky enough to meet Kelly Cline, who has kindly agreed to write short articles for our website now and then. Some of you w…
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