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Enhance Your Crafting: Project Bag and Block Nanny Featuring Style Vil Foam

Some of you may know that Strictly Quilting has been running sewing retreats for a couple of years now in collaboration with Cecilia Slinn. We recently held our Summer Retreat where we had a fabulous time. There were two projects for people to make. Cecilia brought us a Project Bag and I designed a BlockContinue reading “Enhance Your Crafting: Project Bag and Block Nanny Featuring Style Vil Foam”

Summer Workshop Projects

This year is passing so quickly. Easter has come and gone and the garden has started to grow even with all the rain. It’s about now I start to look forward to summer, hoping for a little sunshine to make us all feel better.  Another thing that made me feel better this year was aContinue reading “Summer Workshop Projects”

Back from the slopes and using Vlieseline Wadding – 279 Soft Cotton Mix 80/20

Well it’s been a bit of a while since I’ve done a lot of sewing. In January the family and I took to the slopes of Bulgaria for a ski trip and, you guessed it, I was taken out by a snowboarder on the first day and broke my wrist.. Had to be the rightContinue reading “Back from the slopes and using Vlieseline Wadding – 279 Soft Cotton Mix 80/20”

Vlieseline 276 – Natural Cotton Wadding

Towards the start of this year I was hoping to host a Sew A-Long (SAL) series of blogs on my website Strictly Quilting. Well, sometimes life gets in the way by throwing the odd curve ball and I found things didn’t quite work out the way I’d planned. I’d started the design, based on starContinue reading “Vlieseline 276 – Natural Cotton Wadding”

Clover Finger Presser

Many of you that have visited me at Strictly Quilting HQ know that I love a Hera Marker for marking lines, especially when quilting. I’ve found them useful for both hand quilting and, more recently, for marking for Free Motion Quilting on my beautiful new machine, Queenie. I can do straight lines or curves, useContinue reading “Clover Finger Presser”

Gütermann Super Brite Thread

There are many threads we can use which bring added glamour to our Free Motion Quilting. I’ve not used Gütermann Super Brite before so, when they sent me a sample to try, I was keen to have a go. Gütermann Super Brite has a trilobal structure – a triangular shape which means there are flatContinue reading “Gütermann Super Brite Thread”

Happy New Year

My goodness this year went quickly and what a year it was. Increasing the sewing classes, taking on a Ukrainian family, running the first retreat along with several other workshops, hosting the Block Drive in September for Quilts for Care Leavers along with continuing blogs for UKQU, not to mention the new machine which arrivedContinue reading “Happy New Year”

Free Motion Quilting Course

We are pleased to announce that we will be running the popular three day, Free Motion Quilting course with guest tutor Cecilia Slinn again in the New Year. Throughout the course Cecilia will take us through the machine set up, talk about designs and different ideas with the group, with lots of time for guidedContinue reading “Free Motion Quilting Course”

Bird of Paradise Cushion Workshop

As you may know, I blog for UKQU website – a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the world of fabric and also where my shop is hosted. They sometimes set challenges and we had one in 2020. (I was typing last year but it’s two years ago! – Where did that time go?) WayContinue reading “Bird of Paradise Cushion Workshop”