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Over the winter of 2010 – 2011 we shall be mobile. This means we can take the shop to you and/or your group in and around Wales You decide what you want and when, and we’ll bring the shop to you Just let us know please email or phone 01654 761656
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Perhaps that should read Patience and Trigonometry. And this is not a new card game with triangular cards. I am creating patchwork squares for a new quilt top. These squares are made up in part of triangles. These I overcut. This is far better than undercutting, but a pain in the proverbial I’d rather do
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As we all know, the design process for a new quilt not only involves the creation of shapes in coloured fabrics with stitching patterns, but also includes the templates for the cut fabric. This process is perhaps the most enjoyable for me, followed closed by the creation process where you sew the top together and
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Found this when looking for something else, just as you do. It seems such a good idea as well, catalogue properly all quilts that it can, together with details of the quilter and where it is currently housed. Not sure I can say much more as a whole waft of the website is about copyright
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Just stumbled upon a picture of the Heroine of our tale as discussed here. So here she is (with just a hint of her work in progress at the bottom of the picture) although looking very much less animated than usual probably because of the camera! Ladies and Gentlemen – may I present Ollie of
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Just in case your diary has taken leave of absence without your permission, a reminder:- Minerva Quilts 10 The Summer Quilt Show 12-July – 11-Sept 2010 Minerva Arts Centre Llanidloes Powys Wales UK As there is nowhere in earth you would rather be than in mid Wales during any August and September, this is a
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Running at the NEC, Birmingham from 19 – 22 August 2010 this is an exhibition not to be missed by any lover of textiles, sewing, vibrant colours and textures, and audacious imagination for this must be Europe’s leading quilting event of 2010 Workshops, competitions, amateur and professional works showcased, together with the stalls of scores
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The new collection from Clothworks featuring fabrics from the world renowned design studio of Laurel Burch is due to be released in the Autumn of 2010. As usual this is a self complementary series If you want us to get any of these fabrics into the UK for you in the latter part of this
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Just routinely hunting round the web, as you do, not looking for anything in particular – and heypresto — free quilt patterns … Free Quilt Patterns. Yet to go through them all – but as someone has taken the time and effort to both construct the patterns and also to share them with like minded
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I have been sent 2 tickets from the V&A for the Quilt Exhibition (for an earlier post see here) Yeah … I now have about a month to get there from our corner of rural Wales – but I shall make it by hook or by crook … and I’ll let you know my thoughts