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 …
Our Just Sew January Instagram photo challenge is up and running. Never done one before? Here’s how it works. We post a daily prompt. The prompt is a challenge for you to interpret anyway you like. Respond to the prompt by posting a photo on Instagram with the hashtag #justsewjan Pauline @periodwardrobe and Martha @juki_club are …
“I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils…” Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in ‘You’ve got Mail’ Machine Quilting frames allow the sewing machine to glide every-which-way over the top of your quilt. It’s like magic! This amazingly free movement transforms your sewing machine needle into a pencil; so anything you can draw, …
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.” Having been a teacher, I get nostalgic in September. It will always be for me the start of a new year, fresh with promise and possibilities. Now that we’ve recovered from our holidays and got the kids back to school and university, we can begin to focus …
The Festival was great! We enjoyed meeting so many quilters. It’s always a joy to match people up to the right tools. Juki was delighted to be a sponsor this year for the Pictorial Quilts category. We were also glad to introduce our new Juki Club. It was fun to engage with social media and …
Juki sponsored the Pictorial Quilts Category this year at the Festival of Quilts. The pictorial quilt category features figurative or representational pieces depicting a scene or subject. Ikuko Leska our Juki Club team leader, came from Juki Central Europe to hand out the award and congratulate the winner, Janneke de Vries-Bodzinga for her quilt ‘African Village’. Follow …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
