Important Notice: we’ve needed to postpone our April Quilting and Dressmaking Retreat due to the Coronavirus. We’re rescheduling the Retreat for November 2020 and will confirm the dates in the next few months. If you’ve signed up for the April Retreat we will put you on the list for the November Retreat. Participants will be …
Meet Mercedes from the Great British Sewing Bee
At the moment I am so excited I could hug everyone I meet. Not only have I become an Ambassador for JUKI, I have also been asked to join the JUKI Club as a guest contributor. And I thought last year was a good sewing year. For those that do not know me, my name …
IKEA Curtain Hack
We’re a bookish family. When we moved house, we struggled to find the right place to set up our bookshelves. Consequently, most of our books have been stuck in boxes. We decided to get a custom shelf built to go around the sliding doors that lead to the conservatory. Something a bit like this. But …
Meet Jen from the Great British Sewing Bee
I’m sure my sewing story is a common one…. until recently. I’ve sewn for longer than I can remember. My home was a place where sewing was normal, it had been a necessity for the women in my family in the post war years and then a hobby, as RTW became more accessible and dressmaking …
Tensioning your Juki TL 2200 QVP Mini
free motion quilting We’re going to show how to get your Juki TL QVP Mini straight stitch sewing machine ready for free motion quilting. This Juki straight stitch machine has 4 features that make it the perfect quilting machine: space, speed simplicity and strength. The simplicity of the Juki straight stitch machine makes it easy …