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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The February Sewathon .. a great idea? 7 years, 3 months ago
Last year, during the Retreat for the Bloggerati [a marvellous event to be repeated this year], a plot was hatched and Quilts for Christmas Careleavers began. Well, if truth be known it was already happening, but i…
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, When You Find A Hole In Your Seam 7 years, 3 months ago
You’ve spent ages piecing your quilt top and the excitement mounts as all your blocks form into rows and then one big quilt top. You stand back to admire your work and you can’t wait to move onto layering it up…
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Two good tips,thank you 🙂
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Great Janome Giveaway – Part One 7 years, 4 months ago
Yes, you read that perfectly correctly.
The Great Janome Giveaway .. Part One
The lovely people at Janome have given us FOUR Janome M100 QDC Sewing Machines to give away
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Grieat prize would love it please
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Great prize, the winner will be very lucky
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Tremendously generous of Janome. I would love to win one!
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My dear friend died and left me her Janone Gem, I love using it especially because of the memories and it was this friend who introduced me to quilting. How wonderful it would be to win this amazing M100 QDC Janone machine. I will keep my fingers crossed
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Great prize
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Truly lovely machine, with some great features!
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, American Slave 'Code' Quilts – Facts and Fibs 7 years, 4 months ago
I have been fascinated by the story of the American Underground Railway since reading Colson Whitehead’s book ‘The Underground Railway’, in which he tells of a young slave, Cora, and her treacherous journey North…
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This is really interesting. I had seen the contrasting versions so it is really great to be able to read someone’s in-depth research. Thank you Sue!
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Thank you Maggie – glad you liked the piece. I have more to go with the future blocks, so please do read on….
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Thank you Maggie – glad you liked the piece. I have more to go with the future blocks, so please do read on….
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Comment received via PM to me regarding this piece…….That is really interesting I am taken in with it, well done Sue. Really thinking about getting the books, and will do your first block. I love reading about anything like this, very impressed.xx
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Fascinating – love the history.
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Thank you Carol Lightburn. It is nice to know that people are interested
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ChrisCross wrote a new post, Gütermann Bonus Packs 7 years, 4 months ago
The lovely people at Gütermann kindly sent me two of their ‘Bonus Pack’ of threads to review. Thank You Gütermann. Their website is here, and their Facebook page is here.
Bonus boxes of Gütermann thread…
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Corinne Curtis wrote a new post, 10 minute make – reusable gift bags 7 years, 4 months ago
This is a fat quarter friendly way of quickly and easily making reusable gift bags, as an alternative to gift wrapping paper. I made some of these at Christmas to try them out and have no hesitation in asking for…
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Thanks for the inspiration Corinne! I’ve made some reusable fabric gift bags this Christmas. I modified yours, by skipping the ‘threading through’ part and instead added a ribbon in one of the side seams to use for a simple knot & bow to close the bag. Happy Christmas xx
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That is a great idea, Nina, and makes it an even easier make!
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Rebecca Nevard wrote a new post, Product Review – Clover Sliding Gauge 7 years, 4 months ago
The team at UKQU HQ have a great sense of humour. They always seem to send me the obscure notions for me to try out. This one was a proper headscratcher.
However, after a quick google search, I found this you tube…
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Wow, I have one of these in my dressmaking kit. Never thought of using it for Quilting – Thank you Rebecca for bringing it to my attention. Will certainly be using it more in future.
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I’ve never seen it before, but I am looking at breaking open my box of dressmaking patterns, just so I can try it out.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Mad March Hares .. our March quilt competition 7 years, 4 months ago
This months competition is sponsored by
Grosvenor Shows and EQSThe theme for March was the Mad March Hare.
We had some fabulous entries and our lucky winners are shown below. Well done…
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Such a lovely surprise, I am absolutely thrilled to bits, thank you to everyone who voted
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Abigail Sheridan de Graaff recommended the post The Hauxwell Collection … Auction Results 7 years, 4 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Hauxwell Collection … Auction Results 7 years, 4 months ago
The Facebook groups have been really active with commentary about the Hauxwell Collection that recently went under the hammer at Tennants Auction House and one of the quilts will be joining the collections at the…
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Corinne Curtis wrote a new post, “Warts and all…..” 7 years, 4 months ago
Loving something with its “warts and all” is loving it in spite of any obvious blemishes or scars. Sometimes you make or receive a quilt that isn’t quite perfect, or even a long way off perfect, but it can still…
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Love your pragmatic approach!
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Abigail Sheridan de Graaff recommended the post Quilts for Christmas Dinner and EQS 7 years, 4 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Quilts for Christmas Dinner and EQS 7 years, 4 months ago
Every so often something wonderful happens and today was one of those days.
You may have heard already about the Quilts for Christmas Dinners project. For those who haven’t there are several blogs already…
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How wonderful of EQS, we are all so inspired to make this happen as volunteer makers, this is the icing on the cake!
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Frame Quilts 7 years, 4 months ago
When is a frame quilt not a frame quilt? When it is a medallion quilt. In fairness the terms are interchangeable, although ‘frame’ is often used to describe British quilts made using fabric scraps and left over bit…
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Great article. I made a quilt from 4 orphan blocks from a friend, and then just added to it using scraps and corner stones & sashing strips, until I ran out of fabric, no real pattern in mind. Nice to know there was some method to my madness and it has a real name, rather than my name “Winging It”!
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I’d forgotten about those – Round Robin quilts we used to call them. Great fun! And, yes, they are frame quilts when finished. I don’t think I knew that either back when I was doing them.
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I like ‘winging it’ much more than ‘frame quilt’ – it describes the randomness of it so much better.
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Lovely blog Chris. This is a great group challenge! We did this last year – put a block in a pillowcase and keep circulating it around so that several people add a mystery border to it. Some great results, and some not great results, but lovely to see how peolpe worked out their borders.
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Hi Ruth – my first reply to you seems to have been posted below Teresa’s comment. I must have pressed the wrong button. Story of my life.
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So easily done Chris
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Corinne Curtis recommended the post Christmas Dinner Quilts for Care Leavers 7 years, 4 months ago
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Juliet Nice recommended the post Valentine Day Panic! 7 years, 4 months ago
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Juliet Nice recommended the post Valentine Stitchery 7 years, 4 months ago
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7 years, 3 months ago
It is such a pleasure to be able to make a few quilts for this and hopefully there will soon be a quiltaton somewhere near where I live, I have so far this year made two coplete quilts, been involved in another one with a group of friends and have three tops that can go to a longarmer.
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Thanks .. that’s a great contribution and one that will really make someone happy this year!