Welcome to Justhands-on.tv
We are devoted to inspiring and helping you to create beautiful projects.
We do this by providing online videos of workshops for Quilting, Embroidery, Knitting, Crochet, and Textile Art – featuring Britain’s finest tutors covering everything from beginner techniques through to advanced patterns. Best of all, you learn at your own pace, from the comfort of your home via a computer or mobile device, accessible 24/7. (see ALL VIDEOS)
We also put on weekend sewing retreats for those looking to enjoy a little sewing “me time.” (see RETREATS)
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Meet our tutors
Gill Towell
Gill Towell is an award-winning, online and in-person sewing tutor with a special gift for teaching children to love sewing.
Naomi Clarke-Mordy
Naomi Clarke-Mordy is an academic and textile art all-rounder, with a particular love for hand piecing.
Karen Crookes
Karen Crookes is a tutor and quilt designer who loves combining the textural feel of embroidery with the creativity of patchwork blocks.
Valerie Nesbitt
Valerie is the founder and Creative Director of justhands-on.tv , as well as our very own ‘Queen of Scrap’. She founded Creative Quilting, a quilt shop in Hampton Court, where she still teaches to this day.
Jennie Rayment
Jennie is a world renown quilt teacher, lecturer, author of nine quilt books and numerous patterns. From Houston to Qatar, Durban to Melbourne, Auckland and many other international cities, Jennie has wowed them all with her superb teaching style and hilarious lectures all laced with wit, charm and professional expertise.
Jayne Brogan
Jayne is an expert at helping people understand what machine right for them, as well as teaching how to make innovative stitches on their sewing machine, opening up a whole new world of creativity.
Dionne Swift
Dionne paints with stitches to create dynamic, vibrantly coloured textiles. Her needle becomes her pen and thread her ink. The scale, emotion, and energy of her landscapes are inspirational.
Gaynor White
Gaynor is a crochet-obsessed teacher and pattern designer from Wokingham in Berkshire.
Vendulka Battais
Vendulka Battais is an award winning textile artist, tutor and half of the couple running textile studio OliVen in the heart of Suffolk.
Claire Campion
Claire Campion is a modern quilt designer and award winning teacher. You will be inspired by her Walking Foot Quilting techniques.
Lucy Engels
Lucy Engels is a Modern Quilter and Visual Artist, Based in Edinburgh.
Jenny Haynes
Jenny is a modern quilt designer and teacher known for her colourful, curvy machine pieced patterns
Niamh Wimperis
Niamh Wimperis is one of the most colourful and dynamic embroidery artists currently practicing. She appeared on the BBC2 programme, The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts.
Fiona Goble
Fiona teaches knitting and sewing classes, and is the author of several bestselling knitting books, including: Knit Your Own Dolls, Knitted Animal Nursery, Knitted Animal Cozies, Knitted Animal Scarves, Mitts, and Socks. She started writing knitting patterns because she couldn’t find any that she really liked.
Daphne Morris
Daphne is a passionate knitter who will always have a hand knitting project on the go. Daphne particularly loves adding cables in her knitting for the texture and interest they bring.
Tess Grace
Tess Grace is a block printing tutor who has a passion for pattern, printing, and crafting.
Janet Clare
With over 25 years as a textile designer and teacher, Janet regularly hosts talks and workshops, focusing on the design process and creative techniques she uses - - especially drawing with your sewing machine and free motion machine appliqué.
Anita Birtles
Anita loves the themes of recycle, reuse and no waste which has led her to scrap piecing projects as the main focus of her work. And she is keen to improvise in making quilts, so rarely follows a pattern.
Kelley Aldridge
Kelley is keen to help people who have never done hand embroidery, to give it a go.
Jane Czaja
Crochet is Jane's passion. She is a technical editor for “Inside Crochet” magazine, and runs regular crochet workshops so others can learn and be inspired.
Kate Barlow
Kate is a Royal School of Needlework trained tutor who loves using traditional techniques in a contemporary way
Angela Madden
Angela Madden is an internationally recognised quilter, teacher and author. After working for many years as an Occupational Therapist, Angela gained a degree in adult education and changed direction to pursue her interest in patchwork and quilting.
Lorna Bateman
Teaching and sharing her designs and embroidery techniques is Lorna’s passion. She loves all forms of 3-dimensional, raised and textured embroidery and tries to encompass as many of these in her designs as possible.
Anne Baxter
Anne has sewn all of her life, prolifically for the last 25 years. She works across a wide range of patchwork and appliqué techniques and designs -- from the Navajo blanket quilt that includes simple and advance techniques to simple cushion designs.
Carolyn Forster
Carolyn is an accomplished quilt maker, teacher and author of several books and patterns. Carolyn has been sewing quilts for over 20 years and just loves using up scraps. She is constantly inspired by vintage quilt blocks she finds on her travels and she brings them up-to-date with modern construction techniques – stitch n’ flip and Quilting on the Go are two of her favourites.
Julia Gahagan
Julia loves making miniature quilts on a variety of themes - especially small, pictorial quilts with little villages and sea sides. Her quilts have been inspired by travel in the UK & the Mediterranean. She also loves Christmas themed patchwork & quilting. This is reflected in many of her designs for wall hangings, mini quilts, garlands, tree decorations and wreaths.
Kathleen Laurel Sage
Kathleen is a freelance designer and embroiderer producing a wide range of innovative textile works. She enjoys blending traditional techniques with contemporary designs and unusual mediums to construct beautiful textiles -- from floral patterns in organza to goldwork.
Jamie Malden
Jamie brings a refreshing, accessible and comprehensive range of textile art ideas to inspire people of all levels.
Hilary Beattie
Hilary is an award winning textile artist and quilter who works with textiles and mixed media.
Gail Penberthy
Gail is an accomplished pattern designer and teacher. She loves to make three dimensional items as well as cushions, quilts and wallhangings. When she’s not teaching, she enjoys spending most of her time writing patterns and thinking up new and quirky ideas and how to make them.
Sallieann Harrison
Sallieann enjoys traditonal quilting techniques and has won several quilt show awards in the UK and the USA. Be sure to check out her wool applique projects using a blend of hand and machine sewing.
Kate Findlay
Making art is Kate’s passion. She works predominantly in textiles producing a wide range of work from wildlife and landscapes through to unusual night sky inspired pieces embedded with fibre optic lighting.
Kate Percival
In loving memory of Kate Percival, one of our delightful quilting friends and contributors, who passed away. Kate Percival’s hand stitching techniques have been an inspiration for many quilters. Her workshops and quilts live on as a legacy to her craftsmanship, and expertise.
Lynette Harris
Lynette Harris has been quilting for 23 years. It started off as a hobby and grew from there! The Stitch Witch is her creative identity and the guise behind which she can let her imagination run wild!
Helen Butcher
Helen creates patchwork designs and write patterns so you can make your own unique, lovely things. She loves using three dimensional allusions in her work, and is an avid follower of the Modern Quilt Movement.
Mandy Shaw
Mandy brings a distinctive whimsical design style to traditional techniques such as embellishing with buttons and rik rak.
Maggie Davies
Maggie is well known for appliqué, hot ribbon art and needlefelting. She has developed a new simple technique for invisible needle turn appliqué, perfect points, inward Vs and perfectly rounded curves.
Linda Seward
Linda Seward is an experienced quilter, writer, lecturer, and quilt judge.
Fran Rose
Fran has a passion for beading and she loves sharing that excitement with her students
Dawn Cameron-Dick
A traditional quilter by nature, Dawn also uses modern products to create new techniques such as her “signature” technique, Invisible Machine Appliqué.
Craig Joubert
Craig Joubert has been marbling since 1992 and loves to share his passion for marbling art with anyone willing to learn a new skill. He tells us that it might look complicated, but it is easy to do. Every design is unique. And it is fun to do for most ages.
Jacquie Harvey
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Jo Gourlay
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Joanna Smith-Ryland
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Carolyn Sinclair
Carolyn is an experienced tutor in computerised design and computerised sewing machines.
Angela Daymond
Angela Daymond is a textile artist, quilter and teacher who just loves to stitch.
Sylvia Critcher
Sylvia has established her own unique process for combining raised quilt and stitch techniques to create wonderful effects.
Susan Rhodes
Susan has been teaching embroidery for many years and loves to share her enthusiasm for a wide range of techniques.
Sue Trangmar
Sue is a prolific designer of quilt and patchwork patterns, as well as a popular tutor.
Sue Rhodes
Sue is a patchwork and quilting tutor, running regular classes and travelling to groups teaching different skills.
Sarah Soward
Sarah is an accomplished quilter and regularly teaches classes and workshops at Pauline’s Patchwork in Dorchester, Festival of Quilts and weekend retreats with justhands-on.tv
Sarah Hatton
Sarah’s inspiration has a tendency to be garment shape and she rarely works in more than one colour, yet produces amazing wearable garments that explore and push the boundaries of shape and texture. As a designer for Rowan for many years, Sarah is well-known for her innovative use of lace, cables and texture.
Rosee Woodland
Rosee is an expert in knit/crochet/sew pattern design, with a gift for helping knitters get to grips with the basics. After cutting her teeth as editor of The Knitter and Knit Today magazines, Rosee decided it was time to fly solo! She enjoys passing on her love of all things woolly to her students, teaching knitters everything from sock knitting to how to design their own sweaters.
Paula Doyle
Paula Doyle is an author, award winning quilter and tutor. One of the things she likes best is designing complex looking quilts which are made using simplified techniques to make them achievable and enjoyable to every quilter.
Nancy Adamek
Nancy has been a keen Quilter for the last 20 years, specialising in English Paper Piecing. These high quality, pre-cut paper pieces are accurately die-cut, here in the UK, which means that not only will your patchwork be that much more accurate, but you can start sewing straight away and use them over and over again.
Myfanwy Hart
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