I picked a beautiful solid-colour thread from the Magnifico range of Superior Threads – called Elegante -number 2169. The lovely thing about Magnifico is that it’s designed to run at high speeds through long-arm quilting machines like the JUKI TL-2200 QVP long arm, while also looking fabulous. The line it leaves behind is both bold …
Tools and Materials white and bright pastel A4 card paper scissors for cutting the cardboard shapes a pen or pencil for tracing the design pretty thread for stitching the mobile together a topstitch needle for stitching through the cardboard layers an awesome sewing machine Cutting out the card shapes I chose A4 card in the …
A few years ago at the Festival of Quilts, while Ellie was helping out at our JUKI stand, she fell in love with some fabric across the aisle. When she had a spare 5 minutes she would go across to the African Fabric Shop stand and drool over the gorgeous hand blocked batiks. She needed …
