Stitching News

Norma's Hidden Wells quilt progress... once she had finished sewing all the blocks together she laid her lovely quilt top on her bed to see how it looked, good plan... She thought it looked a bit long but loved the way it went up, over the pillow, good... Then decided she wanted to make it quite a bit wider by adding borders only to the longer sides... which she did on Monday afternoon.. and was happy with the result.

So, the funny thing is... Lady Judith had done the very same thing! Both ladies had continued to join their blocks together without watching the shape they were making. The blocks would have made a slightly wider and shorter quilt top if they had 'used their noggin' but you know what... it doesn't matter now, we had a good laugh about it then got on with it... Judith is going to make another 'long' quilt then join the two together to make another "Never Again" large quilt.

Julia's first quilt top made with a Jelly Roll from Moda. She booked a class to see "What to do next"? This is allowed in my very own classroom. Some people love to sew at home and just occasionally need a little guidance... We do that, 'Guidance', if we can! Julia went home with a quilt sandwich and top tips on walking foot quilting.

Rose has been quilting away on this lovely project for weeks and hours... the last stitch was done in Tuesday class. Crusts  were trimmed off and the binding stitched to the front. So, time to sew in all of her thread ends... A great surprise was discovered when Rose looked to the back, she saw the quilted dogs had carefully landed their very own selves right in the middle of squares on the back... She couldnt have planned it!!

Jean Bean finished this fabulous quilt and as a finish we can give out a toot toot toot fanfare! It's one of the fastest finished ever for Jean Bean. There's a reason for that... This beautiful quilt will be given to the London Modern Quilters who have been making and collecting quilts for the Grenfell Tower survivors... such a tragedy...

The label Jean stitched on says it all really... 

and now...
Just a few pictures of some of the new fabrics that have been flooding through my shop door during the last few days...
Just when I had found a place for every bolt which arrived with the last avalaunch of fabric, the delivery men did it again....
Who is ordering all this fabric???