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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, 2 months 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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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, CHIPPENDALE… 5 years, 2 months ago
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Love it!
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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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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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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Fiskars Table Top Seam Ripper 5 years, 3 months ago
No matter how good we are at sewing there comes a time when we reach for Jack. Noooo – not to pour from the bottle (although now you mention this …), but the sharp little helper we keep to unpick the rogue seams…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, GO LIKE THE CLAPPERS 5 years, 3 months ago
A Clapper or Tailor’s Clapper is basically a piece of hard wood which you place on steam pressed seams.
As the wood absorbs the steam when left for about 10 seconds, you will have a crisp fresh seam.
I thought I…
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Brilliant!
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Festival of Quilts – pre-register for tickets 5 years, 3 months ago
As the drama of the pandemic plays out there are glimmers of things happening that might just be a sign of better times for us all, especially for traders and visitors to the Festival of Quilts .. or FOQ as we fondly…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Gutermann Hand Quilting Thread Pack 5 years, 3 months ago
There’s often debate here and at the Facebook Group around which thread is better to use for the different techniques we use in patchwork and quilting, and there’s a wealth of information around to help people cho…
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Despite sewing for decades I had no idea how effective waxing thread is!
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Clover Bias Ruler & Rotary Cutter 5 years, 3 months ago
I was fortunate to receive the Clover Bias Ruler and Clover Rotary Cutter to review.
Both came neatly packaged so after reading through the instructions I tested them out.
The main idea is to…
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Monet for you, my dear! 5 years, 3 months ago
That’s nice I thought, and then I look through his catalogue. Oh my, hundreds of paintings the same. Lots of splodges of colours, lots of brown paintings and, did you know, Monet even painted his wife in her c…
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thank you, my first thought was it was going to be easy, then it wasn’t, lol
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Rebecca Nevard wrote a new post, N.S.F.W. (Not Sewn for weeks) … actually it's been Months Tales of a Part time Sewist – Artist Challenge 5 years, 3 months ago
Hey All
I know that I have been very quiet over the last year, and my followers, I am really sorry. 2020 was a year that did not happen for me. emotionally it was a bad year and I found working from home a…
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A truly mixed textile. I admire your creativity.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Vlieseline – responding to the need for change 5 years, 3 months ago
There are many positive reasons for reducing consumption of new and precious raw materials and Vlieseline are doing this without compromising the superior quality they are renowned for. Committed to…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Festival of Quilts 2021 — Is it Happening? 5 years, 3 months ago
The news came out that Festival of Quilts, the lovely FOQ, is likely to be happening this year, and the drums started up and all sorts of rumours began. Here at your website, we believe in speaking to the right…
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Graph Paper for Quilters and Papercraft from Sew Easy 5 years, 3 months ago
Have you ever been struck with a quilt idea – a new layout you’d like to try? You doodle on a pad, then try and draft it out on some graph paper which is metric rather than Imperial. Get mixed up and confused and s…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, North Country Quilts: In Celebration of New Acquisitions 5 years, 3 months ago
The people at the Bowes Museum in Durham are preparing for re-opening with a brand new exibition of quilts – but of course many of them will have needed the care and attention from the conservation team.
They have c…
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, CESAR MANRIQUE. – Artist 5 years, 3 months ago
Spaniard César Manrique was born 24 April 1919 in Arrecife, a village on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Manrique was an artist, sculptor, architect and activist and, during the Spanish Civil War, he was a volunteer…
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That is really interesting and a lovely piece of work! An artist new to me, too.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Sarah Boone – inventor of the modern day Ironing Board 5 years, 3 months ago
Its been black history month this February .. and its only right that we mark this is some way. Most people will have heard of the likes of Rosa Parkes and her stand against apartheid back in 1955 (she sat down on…
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She certainly made our lives easier. My mother never used an ironing board when we were growing up; she ironed on a pile of towels on a wooden side cupboard. I know which I prefer!
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