Congratulations to our Instagram Contest winners. We wanted to share some of the winning photographs. You’ll be able to view all the entries on Instagram under #myjukiclub and #foq17. The photos below won the Little Box of Sunshine subscription box for the most likes each day of the Festival of Quilts. Our big winner for …
Getting Ready for the Festival of Quilts 2017
We’re busy getting ready for the Festival of Quilts. We love the show! The fun of preparations, planning projects, ordering threads, designing handouts and editing film reels. We look forward to the buzz when we get there on the Wednesday and greet the familiar faces of the other stall holders and show staff. Then it’s …
Christmas in July: A Juki Club Live Event
During our Christmas in July event last weekend we celebrated summer and got ready for Christmas at the same time! The venue was the Franklins sewing shop in Colchester. Besides a massive selection of Juki sewing machines, Franklins have everything for the quilter and stitcher; a superb selection of fabrics, yarns and sewing & quilting …
Christmas in July: Line by Line Postcard Project
We had a great time hosting our Juki Club LIVE: Christmas in July event in the Franklins Shop in Colchester last weekend. The weather was truly tropical! We had fun playing with tropical and Christmas fabrics and line designs at the same time. Juki Club LIVE provided free projects for the Juki DX7 machines through …
Cups ‘N Saucers Quilt
We put together this Cups & Saucers Quilt to celebrate our Alice Tea Party Juki Club event. We’re posting the directions here, so if you missed our first Juki Club event in Salisbury, you can still complete the projects at home. These applique projects were designed to explore the cool new features on the Juki …
Daisies Anyone?
“Don’t you think that Daisies are the friendliest flowers?” Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail Our Sunshine Box May Flowers line design is a daisy! This is one of my favourite line designs. It looks great and it’s easy to do. Making the long thin petals is good practice for other line design too. Notice …
Alice Apron
It all started with this gorgeous fabric from Cotton + Steel’s Wonderland Collection by the Rifle Paper Company. This canvas weight fabric made the perfect apron for our Juki Club Tea Party. The new fabric lines come out in America several months before we get it over here in the UK. I was in a …
Alice in Wonderland Tea Party
We’ve started a Juki Club here in the UK for people passionate about quilting. We created the Juki Club website to give online inspiration and support. We also wanted to have special Juki Club events so that we could meet up in person. For our very first Juki Club event, we hosted an Alice in …
April Showers Bring May Flowers
They do! We had fun with our April umbrellas line design which looked so cute with the little kitties in the rain. This quirky retro fabric from Lecien provided the perfect canvas to practice the umbrella shape, outlining, extending and then going on to draw our own. We used a particularly lovely cone of Fantastico …
Whimsy – The Power of Play
For most of us quilting is a passion and a hobby. We stitch because we want to, because we LOVE it, not because we have to. But we can get stuck doing the same old thing in the same old way. Sometimes this is because we are afraid of making mistakes or doing something wrong. …