At the Textiles in Focus show there is a lady who is spinning yarn for use on jumbo needles Outward Images - and I mean jumbo: fancy a set myself to try knitting up maybe some of my scrap strips of fabric BUT check out Rachel John and her extreme knitting: on Youtube: Rachel John, Extreme Knitting, 1000 Strand Knit
What’s new to see on the first Friday in February? [...]
This lovely quilt was made with a machine quilt-as-you- technique in vertical strips which were then sashed and Tina made the clever decision to make the sashing scrappy; This is a technique we will be sharing with you but what a great quilt this turned out to be Tina.
How would you like to be part of a huge worldwide project for quilters? Ann’s latest project calls for quilts to be donated to the Hampden Park Quilt Project, taking place around May 2013.
5,000 quilts of 40” square (or close) are needed to cover Scotland’s international football pitch at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Aerial photographs will be taken and sold.
Despite being a technique class the ladies got lots of blocks done - and here is a selection of them - they look good put together!
Pat decided to make her son a very large quilt but wanted something quick - so took inspiration from the stripey quick quilt workshop; she also added sashing to make the quilt even bigger!
I am so pleased to finish my tumbling blocks with Jenny's help. I liked the hand sewing one too and might try it later on. from Joyce So by hand or by machine the blocks still look good - well done Joyce.
Linda has obviously had a lot of fun with the template; there are more workshops planned to help get even better use from this little bit of plastic!
Using the Your First Sampler blocks as a starting point, adding some blocks of their own and under the guidance of Lyn Butler a group of friends made this lovely surprise gift for Beryl's surprise party. and she loved it!!! and I'm not surprised - it is really lovely; lucky girl.
Thank you for setting the bargello pattern up for me. After having a look at it I had a play and made a table mat which then turned into a table runner. Here is a picture of it. I shall do a demo of this on Monday evening and hope to get lots made to sell at St Michael's Hospice in November.
We start the month off with yet more inspiration from the Hope Quilters’Exhibition ; this is the final part of our wander round their exhibition with Sylvia Critcher acting as guide and hostess. We enjoy work that is complicated such as Baltimore just as much as the use of simple panels that we can all be tempted into purchasing when at a show! Sylvia's group also have a wide variety of talents making small items - just you see.
Despite the threat of snow (and/or flooding) the show at Ardingly (near Gatwick Airport) was well attended; there were great quilts, a variety of traders and the electricity stayed on! I helped out on the Creative Quilting stand and we were certainly kept busy – lovely to say ‘hi’ to so many of you too. I managed to do some personal shopping (fabric of course!
Hi Valerie ..enjoyed the video on machine quilting today...which is very strange as that's exactly what I have been doing today.. pattern from P&Q mag...made 2 wall hangings and a table mat for a pending class...Lyn There is something very appealing about Penguins isn't there
Before the whole of the UK seemed to be shut through snow Jennie and I managed to get together with Dave and Matt for a most productive day in front of the camera's. There were cats, chickens, hexagons, patriotic red, white and blue, a serger, some crazy - and that's just from Jennie !!!!! Valerie managed some recycling (of men's shirts), a trip to a cafe and some grandmother's fan handwork as well as this delightful Caddy Pad - which is a travelling tote for your iron with some heat resistant fabric so it doubles up as an ironing pad.