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 …
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 …
The Basket Quilt – All About Emily
About TIME… Back in 1997 I was part of a quilt group in Sevenoaks, Kent. We did a quilt block project where each member of the group chose a quilt block and a preferred colour range. Then everyone in the group made one block for you.. When we were finished, each of us had enough …
JUKI TL-2200QVP Mini – Lockstitch Sewing Machine Favourite Features
The JUKI TL 2200QVP Mini is the upgrade to the classic TL98P lockstitch sewing machine. The P stands for perfection and Perfection is hard to beat! The NEW JUKI TL 2200QVP Mini keeps all the features that we love in the TL 98P Classic and adds a few more. There’s a new additional sub tensioning …
The Red Thread – A Japanese Folk Tale
Everyone’s little finger is tied to an invisible red thread, according to an ancient Japanese legend. The red thread will lead us to another person; someone we are destined to meet and make history with. For the Japanese, human relationships are guided by a red thread that the gods tie to the little fingers of …