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Well, the snowfall was beautiful. It yet looks lovely inwards the fields some our house. But fifty-fifty the A together with B roads are clear inwards the Lincolnshire expanse some us. The motorways are fine too. So  travelling to our Petwood Machine Quilter Retreat this weekend looks pretty good. We're looking forwards to forest fires, lovely meals together with a remove gratis weekend without distractions every bit nosotros focus on fine tuning our auto quilting skills. Dress for the Retreat is smart casual. We wearing clothing upward a flake for the eventide meals together with wearing clothing comfortably for the hateful solar daytime fourth dimension workshops. We'll select frames ready together with we'll provide all the materials for the weekend. Please convey whatsoever finished quilts or unfinished tops for our afternoon brainstorming session.  We would hold upward delighted to see what you've been upward to. If you lot would similar some assista...

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...

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 thread...

Jackie, Cathy together with Diane looking at Juliet's quilt top One of my favourite parts of our Machine Quilting Retreats are the afternoon sessions when nosotros audition threads on the diverse quilt tops that the participants bring. It is inspiring for everyone to encounter the quilts.  It's fun to seek out lots of dissimilar threads together with to collaborate most how to quilt it . Juliet alongside her Kaffe quilt As y'all tin encounter from the photos below everyone learns from everyone else! Cathy watching Jackie doodle a novel design Diane considering which thread together with pattern to use Cathy showing Juliet merely how she arranged the blocks Joy mastered a novel business design! Juliet making butterflies a 'peicing detail' on Juliet's granddaughter's quilt We all brutal inwards dearest alongside this pieced pattern. I desire to create a version where I add together machine quilted details on the faces t...

My twin sis is a grandmother! I'm non certain who is to a greater extent than cute the babe Ruby or my sis Peggy. I made my sis a babe quilt when her get-go kid was born together with when he had his get-go child, of course of written report I had to brand another. Peggy likes brilliant fabrics together with thence this trivial quilt comes from all my brilliant kiddie scraps together with it's quilted amongst hearts together with loops. As trivial Ruby gets bigger she'll live on able to play "I spy amongst my trivial eye" amongst the quilt together with expect for doggies, together with icecream cones, flowers together with strawberries, lightning bugs, lady bugs together with butterflies. I promise they'll convey hours of fun together.  There's a gorgeous ruby-red view flannel on the dorsum which makes the whole quilt soft together with cosy.  Here's the quilt loaded on our 6 human foot New English linguistic communication Quilter f...