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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Hemline Gold Quilting Collection 5 years ago
Quilters are in for a real treat with these luxurious new tools from the new Hemline Gold Collection!
Rotary Cutter
The new Hemline Gold 45mm rotary cutter has a premium brushed gold blade made from…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Clover Stitch Dome 5 years ago
Clover has released this clever piece of equipment which some may say bears a resemblance to the old darning mushrooms our grandparents might have used to darn the heels of socks or replace the knee of a worn-out…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Gutermann creativ release new Sew-all Thread Pack 5 years ago
Gütermann creativ has released an exciting new Sew-All Thread pack which includes a Textile Glue stick.
The pack contains 10 x 100m reels of Sew-All in popular shades of yellow, blue, green, red and grey to g…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Last call for Quilt Entries for 2021 Festival of Quilts 5 years ago
Our friends at the Festival of Quilts really are hoping for a great event this year after having to cancel everything in 2020. I am sure many of us will still be reticent about attending but there’s still time to…
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Fiskars Tabletop Seam Ripper 5 years ago
We’ve all done it, sewn a seam that turns out to be wrong and have to ‘deconstruct’ – frog the stitching (ribbit, ribbit), get Jack out (Jack the Ripper). There are many funny comments we use to try and make light o…
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Christine Hutchins posted an update 5 years ago
I’m sat in my sewing room, the May EPP BOM has just arrived, and I’m sat writing a blog.
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Puzzle Quilt Block 5 5 years ago
Block 5 is called Mystery Flower Garden. It includes the quarter-square triangle units we had in last month’s block (London Roads) and another unit consisting of two quarter-square triangles and one half-square t…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Rare Orphanage Sampler goes up for Auction in the recent Tennants Textiles Sale 5 years ago
A very delicately embroidered 19th Century Sampler sold for £6,000 plus buyer’s premium in Tennants Auctioneers’ Costume, Accessories and Textiles Sale on 7th May. The sampler is worked in red thread on white back…
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I adore this. I still have quite an extensive collection of French and German Redwork samplers but this is exquisite. I used to design and teach Blackwork embroidery which are also known as Holbein embroidery with the back looking exactly the same as the front.
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, 'Circles' 5 years, 1 month ago
Not content with the challenges set by ‘The Webmaster’, I decided to take part in a challenge week over in a Facebook Group. Most of the people in the group are paper crafters, but I decided I’d take part and…
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gorgeous!
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Hemline Gold 5 years, 1 month ago
An exclusive new collection inspired by the rich history of the haberdashery industry; Hemline Gold is fused with sleek, modern finishes. Drawing its influence from traditional Victorian aesthetics and…
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Sweet and Sharp Macarons 5 years, 1 month ago
Do you have a sweet tooth? I know I do but these might help keep the calories at bay.
Keeps needles sharp
Newly added to the Clover range are these rather delicious looking macaron-shaped magnetic needle…
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Puzzle Quilt Block 4 London Roads 5 years, 1 month ago
We’ve reached Block 4 of the Puzzle Quilt and you will be half-way through when you have made these ones. This time the block is based on a 9-patch grid (the earlier ones were 4-patch) and has two new units to t…
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John J. Cole-Morgan wrote a new post, Quilt Along with John Podcast – Josephine Collins 5 years, 1 month ago
If Sylvia Stratford is my right hand in my studio, Jo Collins is the heart of the business. Her love and joy of all things fabric (except cutting the fat quarter bundles and folding them), will inspire you to just…
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Hemline Easy Grip Pins 5 years, 1 month ago
Pins are often underestimated when we consider the equipment we use for sewing. How many of us have pins which we have had so long their origins are lost in the midst of time? I know I have some that were probably…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Clover Sweet and Sharp Magnetic Needle Holders 5 years, 1 month ago
Newly added to the Clover range are these rather delicious looking macaron-shaped magnetic needle holders.
Not only is the design very appealing, these holders are incredibly useful and also very…
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Joining wadding bits 5 years, 2 months ago
I had to join some strips of wadding together to make a big enough piece for a quilt top I had just finished and I thought I would take some photos to show how I went about it. There are lots of different ways to…
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I know a lot of quilters will find this really helpful, and – what a pretty quilt!
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Thanks, Maggie. Of course, having sorted out the wadding and assembled a backing I now can’t find the thread I was sure I had!
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Now for Something Different – We need your thoughts 5 years, 2 months ago
After spending more than a year of living mostly at home and or isolated, we are all hoping we can meet up with the people who matter to us, over the Christmas holiday. But we also…
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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, Book Review – Sarah Payne's Quilt School 5 years, 2 months ago
Search Press describe themselves as “The world’s finest art and craft books”, and Sarah Payne’s Quilt School certainly is deserving of this description. This is an ideal book for those starting out on their quiltin…
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That is a super review.it told me everything I needed to know about this book.
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Thank you Maggie! It is a brilliant book, well worth a place on the bookshelf.
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Crease Marker from Sew Easy 5 years, 2 months ago
Do you ever get to that moment when you’ve finished piecing a quilt top and get a little bit daunted by the next stage – the quilting?
When quilting, I sometimes quilt by domestic machine, using both the walking f…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Exclusive Ticket Discount for the 2021 Festival of Quilts 5 years, 2 months ago
Yes – you read that right. The organisers of the Festival of Quilts have given everyone, both here and at our sister Facebook Group an exclusive discount code to use when purchasing tickets for the 2021 Festival of…
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