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Lucy Engels

About Lucy

Lucy Engels is a Modern Quilter and Visual Artist, Based in Edinburgh.

With a background in Fine Art and a BA (Hons) in Printmaking from Grays School of Art, Lucy has always been creative. But the real world beckoned, so she side-stepped into the world of social work for a good decade of her life. When Lucy moved back to Edinburgh for her partner’s work, this was her opportunity to step back into her artist shoes. She hasn’t looked back!

Lucy feels that her artistic background helps her bring different kinds of knowledge, skill and inspiration to the quilts and patterns that she creates.

You may have seen some of Lucy’s work exhibited at QuiltCon in 2018, 2020, and 2021 – – where she won an award in the appliqué category for my Naive Melody Quilt. She is heavily influenced by music!

Lucy collaborates regularly with industry leaders such as justhands-on.tv, JanomeUK, Aurifil Thread, FIGO Fabrics, Oakshott Fabrics, Purl Soho, and RJR Fabrics. She also teaches online workshops to individuals, groups, and Guilds, as well as in-person workshops in my Edinburgh studio.

According to Lucy, “I create unique, modern quilt patterns that coax out your inner artist by allowing you to put your own personality and stamp on what you’re making. This isn’t quilting by numbers. You don’t have to follow what I do to the letter. Consider it more as a map to guide you towards creating a stunning piece of art that you can curl up under when it’s done.”

To see Lucy’s designs and limited edition fabric collections, visit her website: https://lucyengels.com/

You can watch Lucy make a colourful modern quilt design using a foundation paper piecing technique that she calls, “controlled improv” in this episode of The Makers Studio series.

Signature Technique

Controlled Improv

Top Tips

  • Experiment with colour to create movement in your quilt.
  • Map out your design on a wall before cutting and sewing.
  • Use music as an inspiration for your quilt design.
  • Blue tip needles work a treat for paper piecing. Fine and sharp.
  • A single line of different colour thread in your quilting creates lift.
  • Fold the freezer paper along template lines to help with your foundation paper piecing.

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How to sew 1/4″ seam allowance

The sewing of an accurate seam allowance is very important in patchwork; the standard is ¼” and several sewing machine manufacturers have made special feet to help this. However, if you don’t have one of these, don’t despair, this video shows you how to set your machine to do this.www.justhands-on.tv/videos/1/

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Kim Thittichai shares her love of embellishing

Queen of Embellishing and mixed media, Kim Thittichai shares with you her great embellishing product called "Hot Spots"www.justhands-on.tv/videos/category/4/ And Mixed media textile enthusiasts will love Kim’s books ; Hot Textiles and Experimental Textiles

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Changing your password

Val:  If you have forgotten your password, you can ask the computer software to issue you with another one and in return you will get a series of letters and numbers, which are impossible to remember!!   However, once you have logged in you can find a 'Change my Password' option at the top righthand side of your screen under the Members tab;  so you can then type in something  you can remember and is also easy to type!

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