Here’s a fast and fun last minute Christmas project. It’s naughty because it’s just so easy! Using the air threading JUKI MO2000 overlocker to stitch the bunting together is fast, fun and fabulous. It’s nice because the bunting is double sided and looks lovely from every angle. The extra weight makes them hang nicer too. …
Savour the summer with our Anchors Aweigh Little Box of Sunshine. We’re back from our family holiday in Norfolk. As I write this nautical themed post, I’m savouring the summer memories. Here I am flanked by the kids; Kate, Ellie, Rosie, Pete and Emily and Ben. Then we’re all heading off to Holkham beach. …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
Tools and Materials JUKI DX7 sewing machine Tea cup shape in the right size for your project Plain template plastic – easily available online fabrics for tea cups Very fine Vilene – Easy Fuse Ultra Soft Light H180 Thread for machine applique Tea is always a good idea. Celebrate tea with this raw edge applique …
This is one sewing machine that does it all! There are so many brilliant features that it was hard to choose my favourites. But here they are. Great line of stitching – really the most important feature! The even and steady box feeding system ensures a consistently beautiful and even line of stitching whether you’re …
