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April Retreat

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Spring comes to Woodhall Spa Spring into restrain amongst our April Machine Quilting Retreat at the Petwood Hotel. The Petwood is such a pop venue particularly inwards the Spring in addition to Summer months, that we've struggled to mass retreat dates. When they said that sun in addition to Mon nights were much to a greater extent than  available nosotros decided to alter our days to acquire roughly the corner of the weekend. This Apr 2012 Retreat volition start on sun in addition to complete on Tuesday. Monday volition last our primary didactics day, amongst sun for arrivals in addition to getting acquainted in addition to Tuesday morning time for winding things up. We've every bit good got a larger room amongst a fight to a greater extent than infinite to spread out. It's a agency to brand novel friends in addition to larn novel skills. Our retreats attract a broad diversity of people. Some are simply get-go to machine quilt on a frame, others are to a greater

Denim Too Roses

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The novel Magnifico arrive at from Superior Threads Lots of requests are coming inwards  for thread to become amongst denim. So I'm posting most the new Magnifico arrive at from Superior Threads . With 200 colours to lead from, you're outflow to detect only the correct shade of bluish to become amongst your jeans. Denim Blues inwards Magnifico from Superior Threads Magnifico is a novel Trilobal polyester arrive at from Superior Threads. It glows similar silk. It's rigid together with long amongst 3,000 yards on the cone. The strength and beauty become far an ideal choice for long arm quilters.  just a few of the blues This premium high tenacity Magnifico thread is a existent break-through. Before nosotros had to lead betwixt trace together with beauty. We could convey 1 OR the other. If nosotros lead pretty threads they were probable to pause going high speed through the quilting machines. Then at that spot were the stronger threads that coped amongst

Fantastico

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Fantastico may merely live on my novel favourite thread.   I produce honey the Magnifico. But variegated threads are then fun to auto quilt with.  So when I flora out that Superior Threads were bringing out a variegated version of Magnifico in addition to calling it Fantastico - good I was excited. Fantastico has all the describe in addition to beauty of Magnifico but it's variegated! This thread is then NEW that at that topographic point are solely a few colours currently available. Use the American Superior Threads site equally a store window to run into this newest gain of Fantastico thread.  Available straightaway inwards the UK £11.99 for 2,000 yds. Fantastic Thread! Fantastic price! electronic mail or band to order martha@.co.uk 01526 378057 This month's Superior Threads guild goes in Mon afternoon March 18th electronic mail or band to allow me know what y'all want.

Going For A Song

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Emily, Jill, Martha too Rose at the Houston Quilt Festival I've got a Stateside vi human foot Art Quilter frame going for a song . We used the frames at the large Houston Quilt exhibit concluding year. They've been resting  in storage too are inwards peachy shape. But straightaway I'd similar to teach them to a expert home. The 8 human foot NEQ2 frame has already gone to Lou Ann inwards Washington State. It simply arrived on Sabbatum too she's delighted! She's already got it laid too possess to go. Look how happy it is to endure out of the box! Lou Ann's 8 human foot NEQ2 all laid up  I dear the table. At 8 human foot yesteryear iv foot, Lou Ann tin purpose the other side for cutting. What a peachy purpose of space! Now nosotros withdraw to notice a expert abode for the vi human foot Art Quilter. This frame is the perfect size for smaller baby, kiddie too unmarried bed quilts. It's perfect for charity quilts besides too it's ideal for

Never Heard Of It

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South Oxford at Sunset Yesterday, Helen came to see from Oxford. She'd been visiting the website for years as well as decided that it was fourth dimension to come upward as well as own got a hold off for herself. I so enjoyed coming together Helen. Chatting over coffee, nosotros constitute much inwards common. We'd lived inwards similar parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland as well as fifty-fifty had children the same ages. Helen likes to brand smaller quilts, especially to divulge every bit gifts so she was keen on our smaller Art Quilter frames. She's in-between-houses at the instant as well as is stopping off inwards Oxford en road to the Cotswolds. With almost of her sewing supplies inwards boxes, Helen's been strip piecing projects as well as alongside extra fourth dimension on her hands she wanted to produce to a greater extent than quilting. As nosotros explored her options nosotros see that the 4 human foot Art Quilte

Lalla Ward's Vanishing Act

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LallaWard   has a novel exhibition coming upwards at the  National Theatre called Vanishing Act It's staged equally an encore applauding Lalla's penchant for flora, fauna together with fibre so admired inward her previous exhibitions .  Lalla's exquisitely stitched textile pieces capture the amazing might of many animals, reptiles, amphibians together with insects to blend inward alongside their natural environments. It's a clever idea, brilliantly executed.  moth past times Lalla Ward  rests on artisan bowl past times Nick Kettlewell The camouflage topic plays out across a broad multifariousness of materials ranging f rom paw turned wooden bowls to meticulously stitched moths .  Lalla alongside her sketch book Lalla's operate has a curious touching on on the viewer. It draws yous inward equally yous await ...again together with again... to find what's hidden inward plainly sight Viewer

April Retreat

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Lexie in addition to Martha on the six human foot Art Quilter frame  Our Apr Machine Quilter's Retreat was lovely. Small is beautiful! With 3 participants in addition to 3 tutors at that spot was plenty of ane on ane instruction .  Joy in addition to Lexie were experienced quilters but relatively novel to machine quilting on a frame. Both brought their Juki TL98 P sewing machines hence nosotros could assistance to acquire them properly tensioned for free-motion quilting. talking most loading the quilt sandwich Joy in addition to Lexie wanted to consolidate basic skills in addition to displace on to the adjacent level. We explore problem shooting techniques get-go amongst sewing machine tension.  Joy practising a novel work pattern on the frame We displace on to drawing designs amongst pen in addition to newspaper in addition to hence nosotros acquire to the frame in addition to execute the same designs amongst the needle in addition to diverse threads. Then no

King Tut At The Quilt Room

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Nicky too Pam Lintott Pam too Nicky Lintott convey larn the novel Great Britain Gammill dealers. You may know this woman rear immature adult woman squad from reading their footing famous   Jelly Roll Books . Pam's been running The Quilt Room inward the lovely one-time marketplace town of Dorking inward Surrey for to a greater extent than than thirty years. When nosotros lived inward Sevenoaks, that was the store that me too my quilting buddies visited for supplies. Now Pam too Nicky convey larn the Great Britain dealers for Gammill. Gammill long arm quilting machine The Quilt Room has a role built studio where they offering a professional person quilting service. They've simply stocked upwards amongst a fantastic pick of King Tut 100% cotton-extra-long-staple-really-grown-in-Egypt thread. Gammills dearest King Tut too y'all volition too. King Tut threads are ideal for Gammill long arm machines

Omni Thread

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The New Omni Thread attain from Superior Threads £10.99 for a 6,000 yd cone There's a novel thread trace of piece of job from Superior Threads called OMNI. We got to endeavor it for the kickoff fourth dimension at our Apr Retreat. We similar it! OMNI is a Tex thirty (approximately xl weight) poly-wrapped poly marrow thread. It's a basic rigid no-nonsense thread designed to run good at high speeds. It's ideal for long arm quilting, clothing making in addition to it plant peachy inward the serger/overlocker too.      Omni Features: Available inward 172 company colours Cleaner, brighter in addition to stronger than other poly marrow threads Designed for high speed machine quilting in addition to sewing Can locomote used on top in addition to inward the bobbin Great cost -  6,000 yd cone for £10.99 OMNI display booklet lets yous run into in addition to experience the existent thread Omni is the cleaner, brighter, in addition to stronger alternative t

Blossom

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Source: polarbearstale.blogspot.co.uk via Martha on Pinterest After the longest wintertime inwards fifty years, the warmer atmospheric condition is a balm to my soul. Now at that topographic point is blossom everywhere . It's nigh equally if later all the weeks of waiting everything decided to come upward out all at once. Peter's pear tree blossom Ellie's ornamental reddish blossom Rosie's apple tree tree blossom the stance over the fields from Ellie's window  After all the waiting, leap seems inwards such a hurry to last into summer. All nosotros bespeak is ane gusty tempest too all the lovely bloom volition blow away. The photos capture the fleeting moment, asset the ikon however plenty to imitate inwards textiles. My blossom pinterest board volition choke on the images fresh the yr long.

Rosie's Room

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Rosie is our third daughter. When Emily moved out to become to University, Rosie got to accept a room to herself! In a large trouble solid unit of measurement this is a treat. It's a lovely piddling attic room alongside depression slanted ceilings, merely large plenty for ii unmarried beds. The depression slanted ceilings are such a prissy cozy characteristic in addition to nosotros decided to accentuate it alongside a stencil around the edge. It was our rootage endeavor at stencilling and to me it felt similar putting a border some a quilt. just room plenty for ii unmarried beds carefully lifting the stencil such a lovely trace design matching for a seamless join Ta dah! Because the room is then small, nosotros kept the colours simple, merely lilac in addition to white. Early on inwards the projection I created a pinterest board which nosotros used every bit a pattern wall. We could pivot pictures of rooms or colours or fabrics that were inspir

Lilac Quilt

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Source: redbubble.com via Martha on Pinterest Once nosotros had the colours sorted nosotros needed to determine on a block designing for the quilts. The twin beds were each going to involve a quilt. So it was going to be  double the problem but twice every bit nice! We decided to become for an orangish pare or pumpkin seed pattern. It had a prissy retro experience to it. I'd used the designing several years agone to brand a  leaving introduce quilt  for the children's schoolhouse secretarial assistant together with each 'peel' had been basted together with hand appliquéd. It was gorgeous but at that topographic point had to endure a quicker way. 'Shelby' quilt designing past times Lulu from For the Love Designs I'd seen roughly fresher versions  of the orangish pare designing popping upward on pinterest. I decided to endeavor a raw edge appliqué technique beautifully presented past times Lulu from For the Love Designs . S