Festival Of Quilts 2017

I thought I should remind you that it's time to book, and pay, for your seats for our coach trip to the NEC this year, if you haven't already done so that is. It's the same price, £25.00 and this includes your Quilt show entrance ticket. We are going with Copelands Tours on Sunday 13th August and there are several pick up points along the way... Meir, Cheadle, Tean and Uttoxeter.

Stitching News

Lady Judith is back... and she means business!
Hidden Wells progress... Hot and spicey colours coming together beautifully.
Remember she told us she would never make another large quilt...
Update... this one will be Kingsize!

Jean Bean started her day with a nifty-crafty sandwich... What a beautiful quilt this is... I must apologize for the dull picture, all my own work! ha ha ha... Jean has thoroughly enjoyed stitching this quilt top and spent the day quilting it, and... it could be a record breaking speed quilt for Jean Bean

Speaking of speed piecing... see the link! ha ha ha
PM Pam purchased these fabrics last thing in the afternoon on Tuesday last week.
This week she was making up matching cushions with the leftover Batik strips!

Our Carol is ever so pleased with her new cushion...
Made with the same method we use for the beginner cushions but cutting wider strip sets... It's a fabulous and finished cushion and therefore we shall give a toot toot toot fanfare

Our Carol invented a Faux-Piped cushion flap!!
How cool is that!
She is such a smarty pants... ha ha ha

Last evening I went to visit the next Sunday Sewing, Patchwork Party location to count up the tables and electric sockets, check on facilities, parking and access... all these things are important for our fun days... I can safely report that all was fabulous, there is a lot of space and there are loads of tables so we can open up a few more places if you were unsuccessful last time.
For more information about our Patchwork Party and to know the secret location, please email me angiequilts@gmail.com 

Monday Blues?

Well, that's the weekend over and done with... she sighs!
Do Sunday clock fingers go around faster than other days? It certainly feels like that to me.
I escaped to Quilty Quarters for an hour or two during the afternoon, applique is a slow process isn't it... all the thread colour changes! but always worth it in the long run.
I am not 'blue' because it is Monday though...
Just incase you didn't read my other 'Blue' post I will repeat the Blue thing...
Only 2 days left now... for Today and tomorrow, there will be £1.00 off the metre price of Blue fabrics to celebrate the arrival of my new Beautiful Blue car... even though the blooming weather and the pesky fly-by-birds have decided to stop it looking new!!
The 10% off any fabric in the shop for finishing a bolt for me has now finished... Thank you for helping me make shelf space! I promise not to get in such a pickle again... ooooh... my nose is growing, ha ha ha!

Stitching News

Fran Cupcake came to make her lovely quilt sandwich.
Each applique has been stitched to my wonderful Moda Mochi Linen blend...
Fran says it's her favourite fabric to work with...
I thought that might interest you?

Norma came on time to make her gifting quilt sandwich... actually... Norma came twice because she forgot to prepare her backing so she popped home to sort that out. Because we offer excellent customer service... we dealt with it... our Annbacan was able to come in early to make her Hand sandwich (ha ha ha) so she switched table slot with Norma But I forgot to take a picture of Ann's hand sandwich.

Janet Le Vet booked a long Sandwich making slot... several hours!! She had quite a few quilts to pin. For one reason and another I can't show you all of them, nor can I show all of this one but here's a taster... now you all know where that wonderful black thread-ribbon-y fabric went!

Janet Le Vet made two Fairy sandwiches, there were 3 on the list but we ran out of time and pins ... and back muscles for the third one!

Merrily has almost finished her very special quilt. This is one block.... to tease! I talked Merrily into doing a bit of Faux Piped Binding so the end of this fabulous project is a little hour or two further away! ha ha ha I can't show it to you because it needs to be seen by Special people first.

There are a few secret project being worked on in my very own classroom so I can't show you... Just know that we are having a wonderful stitchy time... all will be revealed soon enough though.

Blue?... Do You Love Blue?

So... On the week that we were due to travel to Westhope, you know... the place where we went for our wonderful stitching retreat... (I might have mentioned it before?) Anyway... that week, my big old jalopy of a vehicle broke down, reaching the point where it was going to cost more money to repair than it was worth so... we had to hire a car to take me and all my toys to Westhope... such a beautiful car came for me... I loved it and it fit all my stitching toys in easily, and there was a lot of stuff. 

When I returned from my retreat... for one reason and another... I decided that I would take matters into my own hands and I went car shopping with my, very car enthusiastic, eldest and only son... and yesterday...

My beautiful, Quilty Blue car arrived... Beautiful Blue I tell you....
To celebrate the arrival of my beautiful Blue car I am going to take one whole British pound off the 'per metre' price of any blue fabric in my wonderful, and very well stocked, Quilt Shop...
You will have to have read this to know about it though... and you will need to tell me that you love the colour of my new car!!! ha ha ha

Stitching News With Tooting

Sporty Sue, in between being very sporty indeed, has completed one quarter of her Trip Around The Batik World... of the sewing journey... not running variety. This quilt is going to have a punch of dramatic Wow me thinks!! Like I said... this is only one quarter so there are three more of these to make.

Speaking of WOW... Princess Jackie is ready for a toot toot fanfare for her fabulously-fabulous and finished, wall hanging sized, quilt... with Faux Piped Binding to finish it off perfectly. There's a lot of tiny detail and hand stitched embroidery embelishment in this project... and WOW is The right word!!

I'm not sure whether you know (ha ha ha!) we went to Westhope Collage for a wonderful long weekend retreat recently... I might have mentioned it? Maybe once or twice... While we were there, PM Pam was scrounging our scraps of fabric... now we know why... she made a Westhope Memory Cushion, a lembrancinha. 

PM Pam has made a start on festive stitching too.. after declaring there were only 25 Tuesdays until Christmas... click here to scare your very own self... Only 24 Tuesdays now Pam.... but you do have a fabulous festive finish so, toot toot toot

PM Pam again? Yes... another toot toot toot is required for Pam's fabulous and finished alphabet Kiddie Play Mat style of quilt... I hope you can see the quilting? If we shadow quilt around letters, lots of them are reversed on the back, so...

We had the cunning idea of quilting only guided by the numbers and letters... making funny/unusual shapes instead... doesn't it look great on the back? As is usual with lots of my very own lovely customers... Pam made good use of her left over fabrics toot toot toot Pam.

Fran Cupcake is ever so good at quirky work... Guided by her trusty Janet Clare book she made all of these blocks with a certain little lady in mind... all of her favourite things are in the blocks, just wonderful!... now ready for sandwiching so Fran can have fun quilting it.

Woop woop!!!! Gail had enough blocks to start joining them together!!
I think Gail thought the day would never come... ha ha ha. No trimming of blocks was necessary because Gail has made every block perfectly... she found that hard to believe but it is true!

Wise Words?

It's another Sunday Sewing. Patchwork Party today.
We get to stitch all, all, all day with friendly chatter and a few giggles, no doubt.
We have a lovely lady coming to prepare a fabulous lunch and we'll have cake!
 Woop-woop!... Sounds very retreat like doesn't it!!!
And so off I go... I need to pack and prepare!!

Another Advert For 10%

You might be tired of me saying this (?) but I really feel that I have to tell you, confess, once again... 
Lots more fabric arrived!!! 
and there's another shipment due in later today!!! I am finding myself hiding when I see a delivery van arrive!! 
I even got Carol to sign for the fabrics that arrived yesterday! 
I think I am in denial, ha!
I have had to fill up not only one 'Temptation Trolley', 
but TWO 'Temptation Trolleys'... Yes 2!
More Bitty Bolts (Bitty Bolts = bolts with only small amounts of fabric on them) have been found/created and placed on the "Temptation Tables"
So, even though we emptied a lot of bolts already, the 10% off for finishing a bolt has to continue for a few more days... 
No wonder I can't sleep!!!