Useful links
Here you will find useful links to webinars, worksheets, patterns, YouTube videos.
Lucy, from Secret Garden Quilting, is offering wadding and interfacing.
Link to Michele’s notes from Kim Suleman’s talk on VLIESELINE products.
This site has lots off free quilt patterns for children.
https://azblankets4kids.com/category/pattern/
Please find below the links relating to Kim Suleman's talks.
Links related to the Partnership Quilt project:
https://cocreatenorthumbria.org/projects/the-partnership-quilt/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8qEUBStc8
Links related to Kim Suleman/Six Penny Memories/working with Vlieseline products
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notifications
You Tube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxn6E6JHT71mSC4c8HnRm6w
Lina Patchwork (www.linapatchwork.com) manufactures and supplies paper pieces for English Paper piecing. A variety of shapes and sizes are currently available, with new ones added frequently. Also stocks books, acrylic templates and other quilting related supplies.
Butterfly Mug Bag: Here’s a great gift for a friend or a useful bag to carry your mug to our monthly meetings.
Imagining Maps: If you enjoyed Alicia Merrett’s Imagining Maps workshop you might find this technique for adding narrow strips for roads useful. Thanks for the link, Sarah.
Winter trees: This is a recording of a live ‘Facebook’ tutorial by Kate Findlay - our speaker in July. She is demonstrating how to create a stitched landscape using dyed fabric and Tulle. (The quality of the sound at the start is poor, but it improves, so stick with it!)
Scrappy Applique: This is a recording of a live ‘Facebook’ tutorial by Shannon Brinkley. You can find the Full instructions from Shannon’s book here.
Skinny Curves: This worksheet shows the technique used by Jenny Haynes (Papersaxsten) for producing skinny curves.
Blocking a quilt: If you want a quilt that will hang well on a wall then it is worthwhile taking time to block your quilt before binding it. Here’s a technique you could use.
Christmas Goody Bag: Lots of suggestions for fabulous things to make from the items in your Christmas Goody Bag. Just click on the link. The instruction for the Kraftex coin purse are further down on this page.
Making equilateral triangles from a circle: This technique is great for making the diamond shaped Christmas tree decorations demonstrated by Penny at one of our quilt alongs. How many creative projects could you use this for? Let us know.
Christmas tree decorations: A worksheet for making lovely diamond shapes Christmas tree decorations, perfect for hiding that small but expensive gift! Here’s the recording of our Zoom meeting
Folded fabric cards: Here is the recording our Zoom meeting where Rita demonstrated her folded fabric cards.
Cornet Corner: A worksheet to make a fun small present holder which could be used for a Christmas place setting along with a recording of our Zoom meeting.
Coiled pots: A worksheet to make coiled pots along with a recording of our Zoom meeting.
Somerset Patchwork: A worksheet on how make this folded star along with a placing layout and a recording of our Zoom meeting.
Facing not Binding: A worksheet on how to add a facing to a quilt. This technique works well on wall hangings. October 2020. This website also gives information for facings with some options for corners: serendipity patchwork.
Japanese knot bag: This one will test the brain cells! October 2020.
Kraft-tex coin purse: Instructions for making a small coin purse using kraft-tex and felt. Great idea for a gift. October 2020.
Woven quilt: Instructions for making a plaid/woven effect quilt. October 2020.
Christmas gnome: Instructions for making a Christmas Gnome from the Sew Can She blog. There are lots of other free patterns on this site.
Scandinavian Christmas House: Some sage advice - beware the centimetre and glue-stick in this pattern.
Zoom meeting links
1st February - Four corners. This included an introduction to lino printing, a demonstration of how to use the Kraft-Tex sample from the goody bag, information about stump work and how to sew skinny curves.
A video of the meeting is now available here - https://youtu.be/vWVQxPMtaUI