Wow, hubby wont see you for weeks!!!

Sounds wonderful. Look forward to hearing more about your moving to your cabin. An opportunity to sort through and remember all the quilts you have made. Wonderful

I can understand your excitement. Love the patchwork chair. Just make sure Tilly does not order too much extra fabric on the phone!

It looks lovely in there. And you will be able to lose yourself sewing away from the phone, the doorbell etc. I wish I had insisted in double glazing for mine!

I have long been telling all and sundry that I am building up a stock of fabric for if and when I can no longer afford to buy it. I have a badge saying ‘It’s not stash. It’s my retirement fund’! I am fortunate in that my OH encourages me to buy! After all, he says, if you don’t use it someone will! As we have a daughter and a grandaughter who sew, it’s a point. Our grandson enjoys a bit of sewing now and then, too!

Looks like its going to be the in place to go! How lovely is this to finally get a dedicated space. My small bedroom has also become outgrown, one day soon I too shall have another place to go. I bet you are dead excited.

Nice!

That’s a must! It is so rare we get up close to threads of the past.

Very interesting and although I don’t quilt myself (YET) I thoroughly enjoy going to the shows and am amazed by the talent, thought and passion that goes into every quilt.
Keep up the lovely work everyone can appreciate every stitch.

Wonderful to learn more about the organisation of the show. Thanks for getting the interview Sylvia.

Great interview !! And this year, i can get to FOQ and can’t wait

Interesting ‘behind the scenes’ information, I was there at the beginning and most years after. So good to have our own F of Q’s in the UK.

Interesting to hear a bit about the work behind the scene. Looking forward to another great show!

Really interesting to hear what goes on behind the scenes.

Thankyou that was so interesting. Thankyou for sharing

Great to read about all the work that goes on thank you

Fantastic interview thanks! Can’t wait for this year’s festival

My quilting group had a speaker who was a Volunteer at Festival of Quilts.
It was fascinating all the behind the scenes work that goes into making this a fantastic show for us.
I have a quilting friend in Australia who comes over for it Every Year!

Great Interview!

Great beh8nd the screams look thank you for everyone that helps, I Would love to go this year, not been for several years x

Such an interesting read for one of the highlights of my year.

Got to be in it to win it, second time lucky? (Fingers and toes crossed. Lol!)

Much to my shame, I have thought very little about the hard work in producing the show. I had my first visit last year and loved it.

If bloggers on the UKQU site are not prevented or disallowed from entering the draw for tickets, I would love a pair of tickets because it is the first time it hasn’t clashed with the Fairport Convention Cropredy Music Festival.

I would love the chance to win tickets. I’ve been on a no-spend for nearly a year now and this would be a fab way of working round my ban.

Haven’t been for a couple of years. A day there would be great.

I would love to win tickets for this incredible display of quilty, fabric talent and inspiration.

Just discovered I can go to FOQ this year, so excited!

So looking forward to this

Thank you for all the work you do running this each year, I’m looking forward to attending again this year! 🙂

Thought I’d miss this ( my first FOQ ) as family holiday was this weekend – but had to move that, so really looking forward to being able to come especially now having read all about behind the scenes! Thankyou for fascinating insight.

I hadn’t realised how much time, effort and thought goes into this show! Would love to come with my friend Jemma as I haven’t been able to attend for a few years, and can’t wait to visit ! Fingers crossed

Would love to win free tickets to this year’s show. Very interesting to read this interview, thank you

Very interesting interview. I would have assumed it was a quieter organising it but clearly not!

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Hi I would love to help , I have a 6 ft Freestyle frame so I could do the smaller ones . Please contact me.

I can help, I have a mid arm sweet 16

Hi Maggie. I need more practice using my long arm so would be happy to work on some quilts.

I have an APQS Millie longarm 14 foot long machine and would be happy to help. The beast is restless!!

I have a Q’nique 15r and a Qzone Hoop Frame. I’m not very experienced but would be happy to help.

Thanks for the heads up

Love it…go Juliet.

My mum always said, “ Where there’s a will, there’s a way!” And you certainly prove that, Juliet. I can’t wait to see your work on it, so I really hope a machine comes up soon.

So glad I’m not the only one using a Grace quilting frame for storage. I won’t show a photo just yet – I’ve got the wooden one which I set up 10 1/2 years ago in my sewing room, and it is heavy. One day I would love to have a dedicated long arm machine on it – I’ve used my Elna 7200 on it, but that means I would need to get the workshop machine out to use for piecing – doable but…! Anyway – well done, and one day maybe both of us will get round to quilting on our frames!

I’d love to learn to long arm quilt my tops too. You were wise to get this when you could even though you don’t have a machine for it yet. I’m sure you’ll have one soon and look forward to hearing all about the journey. Good luck!

Awesome 🙂

Can’t believe you didn’t show any of my t-shirts 😉

Lovely gift Juliet and nice solution to a wonky panel.

Juliet, I loved reading this, it really made me chuckle because I sometimes struggle to picture things in my head too.
Plus, I’m going to try your version of mitred corners, I think you might be onto something here!

Great Wall hanging, and love your choice of weights during the blocking process