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 …
Christmas Pyjamas and letters to Santa
Hello Emily here. I saw this adorable flannel, called Sugar Plum by Heather Ross for Wyndham Fabrics. I knew it would make really cute pyjama bottoms for my kids. Hobby Craft offers a super simple pattern, that would kit out the whole family. But for this project I’m keeping it to the kids. I wanted …
Homemade Halloween
An easy sew at home Halloween costume of Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz I really wanted to share with you a simple way to create a fun girls Halloween costume out of an item you may already have. Like a lot of British schools, our children have a girls summer uniform which consists of …
Pumpkin Patch – a raw edge applique quilt
Pumpkin fields As you can see, the fabric reminded me of the pumpkin fields. I loved the wildflower and weedy background and the repeated yet varied shapes of the pumpkins in all different sizes were just begging to be stitched over! Piecing the quilt I decided to use the Mischief Night fabric as a wide …
One Day Wonder
One 5-foot, high-tech quilting frame. 6 hours. 3 fabrics. No cutting board, rotary cutter, or ruler. The above ingredients combined most wonderfully on the last day of the Festival of Quilts 2019 to make this cot-sized baby quilt:
Making Mobiles: papercraft on the Juki DX7
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 …
Making a Skirt
Sewing tutorials and tips from the pro’s. We were luckiy enough to spend some time with a seamstress recently who really helped us develop our knowledge of sewing. Cloths patterns scare me but for no reason. I feel sometimes I just need someone there to give me little push and tell me I am doing …
Heather Ross wonky triangle Trixie whole cloth
When I saw this Wonky Triangle fabric by Heather Ross for Windham Fabrics, it was just too pretty to cut up! So I decided to make it up into a baby whole cloth. Whole cloth quilts were traditionally a way to show off exquisite quilting. But whole cloth quilts have become popular with modern quilters …
Free motion quilting the Red Triangle Quilt
We’ll be taking you step by step to show how we quilted Pete’s red triangle quilt. Every now and then it’s good to go through the entire process of making a quilt. Earlier, we posted about piecing the red triangle quilt Here we’ll explore the quilting process. There are many ways to quilt a quilt. For …