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Happy Fourth Of July

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Juki TL98 P on the vi human foot Art Quilter frame Ever notice that red, white as well as blueish industrial plant on both sides of 'the pond' . My approximate is that the colonial Americans were likewise fond of the colours to change. Whenever I purpose carmine white as well as blueish I'm pleasing the English linguistic communication as well as American members of our household. I appreciate the Anglo-American mix inwards our family.Our children larn the best of both!  We've tried to maximize the benefits of both sides of 'the pond' inwards our quilting frames too. We're keen to brand American innovations inwards machine quilting to a greater extent than accessible to the English linguistic communication quilter. We've taken an American sentiment as well as adapted it to tally inwards our English linguistic communication homes. Our New English linguistic communication Quilter frames are where American practicality as well as service run ...

Juki Long Arm!!

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JUKI TL-2200 Quilt Virtuoso Pro The JUKI Long Arm is coming to the Britain this summer! The Quilt Virtuoso Pro has been getting rave reviews from American quilters . Now it's on the means to the Britain then nosotros tin endeavor it out at the Festival of Quilts adjacent month. Yippee! Hooray! Come see the JUKI stand upward at the Festival of Quilts. We're inward the same house every bit final twelvemonth Stand A36 B36-38 . The Festival of Quilts is early on this summertime running from Th 8 August through Dominicus xi August . Come see us for a examination drive. I'm then excited I can't wait. JUKI QVP side view

Show Threads

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We're inwards the same identify this twelvemonth stand upward A46 B36-38  The Festival of Quilts volition move hither earlier nosotros know it. I'll move putting a large Superior Threads social club through on  Friday for the Show. Many people bring placed orders to move collected at the show. If you'd similar to collect your pre-ordered threads at the Festival of Quilts ship me an electronic mail or hand me a telephone earlier nine pm on Friday.I'll bring your threads bagged together with hit to collect at our stand. Gorgeous together with potent calorie-free reflecting tri-lobal polyester £9.99 for 3,000 yds There are  4 novel ranges from Superior Threads  designed peculiarly for Long Arm quilters . So Fine #40 - simply similar the master copy but variegated together with a chip thicker together with thence it shows £15.95 Magnifico - a gorgeous together with potent calorie-free reflecting tri-lobal polyester inwards 200 evidently colours £9.99 ...

Star Of The Show

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Ikuko tries the novel Juki QVP long arm piece Emily smiles I'd choose to nation that for us, the star of this year's Festival of Quilts exhibit was the novel JUKI QVP long arm . Emily alongside an excited quilter Th was the opening hateful solar daytime equally JUKI QVP long arm machine was demonstrated inwards Europe for the commencement time. People trying it simply couldn't aid smiling . Laurence Franklin (on the left) the Great Britain Distributor for JUKI sewing machines This JUKI Long Arm is together with then really pop inwards America that Laurence Franklin, our JUKI distributor hither inwards the UK , decided to convey it to the Festival of Quilts this summer. JUKI trouble concern leaders from key Europe flew over to choose a await together with laissez passer on it a try. Chris, run of our cinema production crew, has a go  We all did! It was difficult to resist and fifty-fifty people who weren't quilters wanted to run into wha...

Photo Finish

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Martha getting the vi human foot New English linguistic communication Quilter frame railroad train to roll Here are roughly shots from Sunday, the concluding twenty-four hr menstruum of the show. This was our busiest exhibit ever! Every other twelvemonth nosotros managed to sideslip away to purchase stuff as well as wander a flake through the exhibition quilts. But this twelvemonth nosotros were also busy! Variegated Rainbow threads from Superior Threads  The one-inch-colour-change variegated threads from the Rainbows make of Superior Threads brand such pretty lines! Rosie on the vi human foot New English linguistic communication Quilter frame  Rosie was practising roughly novel business designs earlier the Show opened. Emily on the Quilt Virtuoso Pro JUKI Long Arm  It was actually overnice having the ii frames nigh each other. Everyone had such fun alongside the novel JUKI QVP long arm. But if it was only also large or also expensive they could...

Back Story

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 It was the Big One that caught their eye equally they were leaving the Festival of Quilts on Lord's Day afternoon. They all tried the novel JUKI long arm together with thence moved to the dorsum to endeavour out the smaller New English linguistic communication Quilter frame amongst the JUKI TL98P sewing machine. They were surprised to learn the same liberty of movement. I enjoyed seeing all these immature people to a greater extent than or less the frame. This guy's mum has a haberdashery shop. He was thinking what fun it would hold out to convey 1 at the shop . It was definitely worth a telephone telephone home. There were quite a few quilt store owners who also realised the advantages of having a quilting frame similar this inwards the shop. "Hey mum, tin plough over the axe I purchase one?" The daughter inwards the dorsum on the left is a immature quilter. She but loved trying the frame! You tin plough over the axe encounter ...

A Fine Line

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machine quilting special of Stephanie Pettengell's 3D cube I got to know Stephanie at our Machine Quilting Retreat final January . It was a corking grouping of girls. We all had a wonderful time, laughed a lot too learned hence much from each other. People from the grouping accept been keeping upward amongst each other e'er since. Stephanie rang a few months agone looking for around threads that would exhibit upward against black. She went for Kimono Silk inward the end. I was thrilled to acquire to run across the completed projects at the Festival of Quilts final week!  Stephanie too Martha at the Festival of Quilts 2013 Stephanie belongs to a Textile grouping called New Horizons too they were invited to exhibit inward their real ain gallery at this years Festival of Quilts. Stephanie amongst her cube inward front end of her Profiles quilt The combination of the fine business too the brilliant gilded color of the silk was hence effective inward this proj...

Between Friends

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Mair in addition to Carol sharing an 8 human foot NEQ2 frame Mair in addition to Carol are best friends alongside lots inward common. They met years agone at the local surgical physical care for when their children were babes. Now, their dearest for quilting keeps them closed fifty-fifty though the kids are grown.  Mair in addition to Carol were at the Festival of Quilts inward Birmingham this summertime when they saw our New English linguistic communication Quilting frames. They got the vivid reckon to percentage a frame . Sharing made the frame affordable in addition to they reckon it would survive fun to acquire how to role it together. So they rang me upward subsequently the exhibit in addition to ordered an 8 human foot frame in addition to Nifty Grips to supercede the human foot pedal on their sewing machine. They decided to acquire a tabular array too. Carol in addition to Mair opted to come upward in addition to collect their New English linguistic communic...

What A Departure A Twelvemonth Makes!

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machine quilting exceptional of Siobhan Toner's Ice-cream Parlour quilt We met Shevvy at the 2013 Festival of Quilts. She'd been wanting a frame for a piece but felt that she ought to set it on concord piece she finished a score course. Siobhan's purpose of the London Modern Quilt Guild.She loves the fresh, no fuss modern approach but she was develop to instruct beyond conduct work quilting . We convinced her to instruct for the 'both and' option. So she used her novel machine quilting frame to sweeten the difficult live on of the score course. Sometimes a footling flake of what makes your catch sing, goes a long means towards helping you lot practise what you lot ought to. Siobhan came to collect her half dozen human foot Art Quilter as well as got a gratuitous workshop So Shevvy set a deposit on her Then came to collect inwards in September as well as got a gratuitous workshop. We tried out around work designs on the frame, dismantled it as we...