Every film has a backstory. Here’s the story behind our film prop quilt. Getting Dressed in the 18th century In September 2017 Crows Eye Productions released Getting Dressed in the 18th Century. It was a short film commissioned by the Lady Lever Art Gallery and National Museum of Liverpool showing a Lady in the 18th …
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 …
Long arm quilting machines are becoming more popular and many quilters are looking for a smaller more affordable version of these amazing but expensive machines. Machine Quilting frames can provide the same freedom of movement as their long arm cousins, for a fraction of the cost. Quilting frames are designed to work with home sewing …
I’ve been wanting to make a red triangle quilt for ages. Our youngest son outgrew his little boy Cars & Trucks quilt years ago, so I decided to make a red triangle quilt that he could take to University. I bought an 8-inch 60-degree triangle ruler from Sew Easy and followed their 5-minute video tutorial. I …
I love driving around at night and seeing all the lovely Christmas lights. I’ve tried to capture that joy in this raw edge applique project. Black backing fabric creates a brilliant night sky and bright saturated Kaffe Fassett-type fabrics work well for the trees. Choosing just the right threads made the trees light up with …
Here’s an update on our Juki Club Instagram contest at the 2018 Festival of Quilts. We’d like to introduce the winner! Rhonda Hazell is the WINNER of our Festival of Quilts Instagram Contest with this amazing self portrait quilt. We’ve been following Rhonda on Instagram for some time, and we were thrilled to get to meet her …
We like to think of the perfect stitch as a love affair between the top and bottom threads. But no relationship is automatically perfect. Most sewing machines are pre-set at the factories for sewing garments with a mid-weight thread on mid-weight fabric.That’s fine if you’re sewing clothes but what if you’re doing something else? If you are …
According to an ancient Japanese legend, there is an invisible red thread tied to everyone’s little finger at birth. The other end of the red thread is tied to someone that we are destined to meet. The people connected by this thread will become part of each other’s story. The thread may get tangled or …
Starry Night is arguably Vincent van Gogh’s most famous painting, but he considered it a failure at the time. Vincent van Gogh’s iconic 1889 oil on canvas painting of The Starry Night is currently in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. We can get insight into the painting by lines from a letter that Vincent …
I’ve been working on a Book Quilt for Emily inspired by Lynne Goldsworthy’s Magpie Books quilt featured in issue 21 of Quilt Now Magazine. I fell in love with Lynne’s quilt and wanted to create something similar. Lynne chose a style similar to the Penguin book theme but I wanted something broader to include all …
