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I have just watched 'Knotting Off Your Threads' with Valerie and would like to say thank you for sharing such a great method. I was taking both threads to the back, tying them off and then weaving in the ends which seemed to take longer than the actual quilting! A great time saver thanks :)

Jan Brown   Re: Leaders and Enders That's ingenious...Lyn   Yet again my fingers are itching to start sewing after watching the Leaders and Enders video.

We are starting the month off with our visit to the Textiles in Focus exhibition that was held in Cottenham village back in February (dates for 2014 are 21/22/23 February) where we met up with Camilla from Outward Images;  Sharon Osborne and the Art Van Go stand and Jamie Malden from Colouricious;   plus  a lovely demonstration from the organiser Pauline Verrinder who shows us how to make 3D items such as seed heads with old scrim.

Message from Ann Hill: Hampden park in Glasgow was covered  with 5012 quilts to raise awareness of Alzheimer's.  Thank you to everyone who helped make my crazy dream come true. Photos at Alzheimer Scotland   and if you want to see what the pictch looked like click here

The 12ft (3.6m) diameter "spider web" was seen hanging under Stapleton Road railway bridge by Gail Boyle as she drove into work . click here to learn more   Thanks to Paul for finding this - great fun

Car is loaded with quilts and fabric  and ready to go - just need to pack the suitcase;  Dunford House (our venue in Midhurst - find out more in the classified ads) is full to bursting;  Jennie will be teaching her Superstar Medallion quilt;  Myfanwy will be showing her students how to use the embellisher (and we have one to play with for the rest of us with the opportunity of getting a Janome embellisher  of our own at a VERY GOOD price - exclusive to Justhands-on.tv) plus bringing her Winifrid Cottage shop of goodies: Val will be making quick quilts with her students using up Fat 1/4s;  and Wendy will be making sure it all runs smoothly for us.

For those of you interested in competing here are the details of the competitions and the dates of the events:   Authors of the topics for 2014 are members of the traditional patchwork club BPK.   The artist collection (this time Embroidered Surfaces) will be replaced with MOTHER NATURE, the technique is not limited. The traditional patchwork compe-tition will be featuring APPLICA-TION as one of the basic tech-niques in every basic workshop.

Well the big day is nearly here (Saturday 8th June) ;  if you sent a quilt in then you can see it on the website (!) just a simple search with your name will do. https://www.annhillquilter.co.uk Here is the latest update from Ann Hill: 10am laying the quilts begins.   We have reached our target! Many football celebrities have signed the quilts I made for them and they will be auctioned off later in the year.   The 5,000 quilts made by our quilters will go on sale tomorrow at Hampden Park after the event.