We’ve been drinking lots of tea in our house. It’s a good cure for pandemonium. Like many of us, my husband and I are now working from home. When the universities closed, two of our children came back home to ride out the storm. Being together in this strange time has made me grateful for …
I love driving around at night and seeing all the lovely Christmas lights. I’ve tried to capture that joy in this raw edge applique project. Black backing fabric creates a brilliant night sky and bright saturated Kaffe Fassett-type fabrics work well for the trees. Choosing just the right threads made the trees light up with …
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. …
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 …
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 …
