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What you can watch in September 2010

What wonderful videos and workshops do we have in store for you this month? Well you will be able to wander round more of the Evolve, Evoke,Expand exhibition by Prism Textiles enjoying work from Sheila Cahn, Maria-Teresa Fernandes, Julieanne Long, Anna Granberg, Jackie Langfeld and Julie Triston.

We also have an interview with Wendy Gardiner, editor of Sewing World; Wendy is well known for her instructional DVD’s released under the Sew Easy title, plus she is very involved in the Creative Sewing getaways held at Dunford House, nr Midhurst in W.Sussex.

Lesley Brankin is letting us join us in her secret passion of Japanese Folded patchwork and as this patchwork technique is double sided, Lesley makes very good use by creating two different patterns, so the projects really are reversible.

Helen Deighan gives a wonderfully explicit workshop on how to make Japanese braids showing her amazingly simple techniques with the special templates she imports. This is a full length video for all our members not just the 2 minute quickie we had before at the Ardingly show so you will learn and see so much more – not to be missed. Lee Brown shares with us her colouring of fabric with markel pens- if you think you have no design ability – just watch this – Lee is such a good demonstrator and takes you through each stage in great detail. Creating beautifully coloured flowers and leaves to embroider and embellish your work is such a lovely idea.

Plus Jennie makes the fastest possible flat bottomed bag, which is also great for a kids workshop – so definitely one to catch. Ideal for last minute gifts – anyone can do this. It takes about 10 minutes from start to finish, even faster if you use the overlocker (serger for those overseas).

And do you despair of every layering up that big quilt? Well the girls at Midsomer Quilting have come up with a great idea which uses tennis rackets (or similar) – a must to watch!

Finally …. You just must download the competition form – you might win fabulous threads from Madeira or even better the Janome BCC-30 Sewing Machine – click here and you could be a winner

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(Sandy won in the previous prize draw); the current

25 lucky winners who won bundles of Robert Kaufmann fabric this month

are:

Mary Rawlins, Sally-Ann Macmilan, Linda Robinson, Ann Pope, Anna Christiansen, Isabel Hall, Maureen Gratwick, Britt Oren, Glady Eves, Lyn Smith, Jackie Anderson, Jo Oakley, Pat Vaughan, Anne Beare, Marillyn Wale, Rosemary Hardy, Juliet Hardy, Christine Bevan, Mae Bishop, Marilyn Murray, Eunice Doy, Wendy Scott, Christine Ireland, Eleanor Berrie, Maureen Pinwheel

Congratulations to you all and thankyou for being part of the Justhands-on.tv quilting community.

Book Review

Its Quilting Cats & Dogs

This is an endearing collection of cat and dog designs from the Austrialian-based quilter Lynette Anderson which will charm and delight.
If you like cats and dogs you will love these gorgeous projects celebrating our pet companions in stitches.
The designs combine simple but stunning hand stitchery with traditional patchwork and quilting techniques. From easy-to-piece quilts, such as a lovely cat-lover wall quilt, to beautiful bags and cute pincushions; there are 17 projects for you to enjoy.

Available from Creative Quilting

The Specialist Patchwork and Quilting Shop - 32, Bridge Road, Hampton

Court Village

East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9HA, England

Tel: 020 8941 7075 email: isabelle@creativequilting.co.uk

www.creativequilting.co.uk

Winner to be notified shortly:

and the winner is

Elizabeth Hurlstone from Ayrshire, Scotland

lucky girl!

ER10™ - It’s “meshmerizing”!

The HUSQVARNA VIKING® ER10™ embellishing machine is designed to create beautiful embellishments on just about anything.

There is no threading, no tension, and no bobbin, just five special needles that felt layers of fabric together by meshing the fibers, fabrics, yarns, and more with the up and down movement of the needles. This machine can also be used to create fraying and worn effects, on jeans and other denim fabrics.

Move the fabric under the needles to felt your original design with textures and fibers. Personalize your garments, gifts, and crafts. It’s easy to place roving, fabric, scraps, fibers, threads, yarn, trim or any fiber or textile under the needles to achieve stunning one-of-a-kind effects.

Use the HUSQVARNA VIKING® ER10™ embellishing machine for all kinds of projects; garments, quilts, cushions, throws, wall hangings, kids stuff, scrapbooks and more. Set your creativity free!

Prize draw was randomly selected from the first 1000 subscribed members of the JHO club!

Justhands-on.tv Presenters

Valerie Nesbitt

A passionate Quiltmaker and patchwork teacher who just loves to share which is the concept behind Justhands-on.tv. With over 20 years patchwork experience, Val is able to teach most patchwork skills and continues to teach, and give demonstrations, mostly at Creative Quilting (which was founded by Valerie back in 1989) near Hampton Court in Surrey despite the inroads into her time created by Justhands-on. tv.

Luckily husband, Stuart, is equally passionate about his golf and also cooking – and makes sure that Val gets to eat!

Contact details:

Justhandsontv@googlemail.com

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Jennie Rayment

This skinnyish, red-haired, slightly wacky Brit is totally obsessed with 'Nipping and Tucking' - fabric manipulation and surface texture. Unique in her field, she's now internationally known for her quick, simple, innovative and original techniques with manipulated material and her hilarious lectures with real ‘Strip, Show and Tell’.

Jennie teaches a wide variety of classes for all levels and abilities of sewers from patchworkers, quilters and embroiderers to fashion, soft furnishing and home décor enthusiasts.

Although, much of her work is created in simple calico known as muslin in the USA, her elegant ideas and natty notions may be adapted for any type of fabric and used to make quilts, wallhangings, boxes, baskets, cushions, table linen and of course fashion garments and accessories.

Indeed, anyone interested in any form of needlework will be totally captivated by her deviously ingenious textural designs and can benefit from the wealth of creative ideas arising from her magic manipulations.

With six books on fabric manipulation techniques - all still in print, many articles and a variety of patterns including a twiddled and fiddled Block of the Month quilt, Jennie’s material magic goes on and on.

Contact Jennie:

email: jenrayment@aol.com

web site: www.jennierayment.com

5 Queen Street, Emsworth, Hampshire

PO10 7BJ, UK

Tel: 01243 374860

More Information

Patchwork Making

Patchwork is the art of placing various pieces of fabric together to form something else; originally it was through necessity because fabric was so very expensive and anything got cut up and pieced together again – often in the form of crazy patchwork, particularly in the Victorian era.

Patchwork was a frugal way of making items last longer by giving them a second, and maybe even fifth life – for example clothing would be handed down through the children with the final destination being a patchwork object – often a quilt. Various shapes are used to make patchwork but the most common is a square and English patchwork would have used hexagon shapes which would be sewn by hand.

The tradition of patchwork is not reserved for any one nation and it is a craft/tradition that has travelled – the Europeans exporting it to the Americas and it is their passion that has now returned to the Europeanand Uk shores with simpler, faster techniques in patchwork meeting the modern ‘need it now’ demand. Fabrics, as well as tools, are now made specifically for patchwork which has given the patchworker a wonderful new choice of colour and design.

Mixed Media Art Embellishing

Embellishing is a very simple way of adding an additional dimension texture and interest to a project.

Back in the Victorian era embellishing was most frequently seen on crazy quilts, where they stitched over the raw edges of small pieces of fabric, that were haphazardly put together, with ribbon and used embroidery stitches and embroidery thread to create fancy patterns.

Today anything goes; you can use fabric- cotton and synthetic - plastic, tyvek, lutrador, wash-away fabrics, threads, glues, buttons, sequins, glitter, foiling, wool threads, ribbon, ric-rac, add ruffles and folds, transfer photos onto fabric, paint your fabric, use cardmaking equipment such as rubber stamps, needlefelting for texture, Angelina fibres for adding gossamer like texture, and even burning back the synthetic fabrics.

You can sew by hand or by machine and your computer can help by printing from a scanned image onto specially formulated fabric.

Embellishing Stitching

This is a current trend to use various threads and other materials to add texture to the finished item; embellishment onto items has really grown recently because of the introduction of so many wonderful threads from the manufacturers, but also because manufacturers have realised that people like to individualize items – particularly clothing.

Stitching is one of the easiest and quickest ways of embellishing an item either by hand or by using the sewing machine. Embroidery techniques can also be employed to embellish an item particularly when the threads are quite thick and they can then be couched onto the surface rather than stitched right through the item (which with thicker threads or embellishing would be impossible).

Embroidery stitches were used by the Victorians in their crazy patchwork when they joined lots of different types of fabric together and then added beads, lace , ribbon – pretty much anything they could get hold of; and even today you can pretty much embellish with anything.

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