Thursday, 29 May 2014
Monday, 19 May 2014
One quilt finished........
I've taken a break from quilting my swoon to make a baby quilt, I have spent happy hours sat here
making a quilt for our friends first baby, a little boy called Oliver, they live by the sea in Northtumberland so I thought boats would be the thing to make, and, after many hours on quiltography and pencil and paper off I went
The binding ready to go on.....
The finished quilt.........just in time to be hand delivered by my dear husband when he is north........
Now to crack on with my swoon..........though it's a bit warm to be sat under a huge quilt in the sunshine..............
Friday, 16 May 2014
Swap Shop 3rd June
The June 3rd Sewing Bee will be our yearly Swap Shop Day so come prepared to join in!
How It Works.
All fabric or other notions/wool etc that you might like to swap should be bundled in weighed sandwich bags. This helps us to 'even up' swaps between participants. Your sandwich bag should weigh around 100 g which equates to a little over half a metre of quilting weight fabric.
When you arrive at the Bee you can hand in your bags and exchange them for Swap Tokens - one per bag. You will use the token to 'buy' the Swap Pack that you want to take in exchange.
Your bag can contain a mixture of fabrics or a single larger piece - it's up to you. It can be fabric or other items such as ribbon, wool etc. It need not be standard sized pieces such as a fat quarter.
If you want to take more bags home than you bought it will be possible to buy additional tokens for £5 each as I am planning to bring lots of bags to swap and definitely DO NOT NEED any more fabric in return ( you know that is not what will really happen!!!) .
We will put all of the bags on the middle table by 10am then ....ready....steady......swap!
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Evening Bee Tues 13th
...........the Evening Bee will be held at The Workroom next Tuesday evening from 8pm.
Friday, 25 April 2014
How To Quilt Your Swoon - Jenny Visit's The Sewing Bee
As you can see from Sue's SuperSwoon in the previous post - a Swoon, when completed, is a large and quite unmanageable king sized beast! I know that some of you brave soles intend to hand quilt your Swoon top. But for those who want a quicker solution I have been looking in to options for Long Arm Quilting. For those of you now wondering what a Long Arm Quilter is ( strange mental pictures abound!) I thought i'd explain a little.
To turn your Swoon from a single piece of fabric into a warm and three dimensional quilt you need to layer it up with some waddding and sew to secure these layers together. This can be done by hand or machine. However with a quilt of this size, trying to quilt it on a standard domestic sewing machine is very challenging as the quilt will be too big to move under the harp of the machine. A long arm sewing machine is an industrial sewing machine that moves over the quilt top (held on a frame) rather than the quilt moving through the machine. This method of quilting gives your quilt a dense snuggly texture.
The very lovely Jenny who is a local Longarm Quilter and works on many of my quilts will be coming along to the Sewing Bee at St Anne's on the 6th May to show us some samples of long arm quilting and she will have her computerised menu of patterns to allow you to look at and think about quilting styles if you would like to go down this route for your quilt.
Jenny will then be available on Thurs 12th of June for 30min appointments all day at The Workroom if you would like to book your quilt in to be machine quilted. Your quilt top doesn't necessarily need to be completed by this date as you can plan and choose a design in advance of finishing as long as you know what your final dimensions will be, but there will be a special rate available for all quilts booked in on this day. You will then be able to drop your finished tops off at The Workroom and pick them up from there when they are completed - how exciting!
For anyone from the Evening Bee who can't make the daytime events - do email Helen and let her know if you are interested in a separate session with Jenny. We will see if there is sufficient interest to run an evening session too.
Now I'm off to get some Swooning done, newly galvinised! debs x
To turn your Swoon from a single piece of fabric into a warm and three dimensional quilt you need to layer it up with some waddding and sew to secure these layers together. This can be done by hand or machine. However with a quilt of this size, trying to quilt it on a standard domestic sewing machine is very challenging as the quilt will be too big to move under the harp of the machine. A long arm sewing machine is an industrial sewing machine that moves over the quilt top (held on a frame) rather than the quilt moving through the machine. This method of quilting gives your quilt a dense snuggly texture.
The very lovely Jenny who is a local Longarm Quilter and works on many of my quilts will be coming along to the Sewing Bee at St Anne's on the 6th May to show us some samples of long arm quilting and she will have her computerised menu of patterns to allow you to look at and think about quilting styles if you would like to go down this route for your quilt.
For anyone from the Evening Bee who can't make the daytime events - do email Helen and let her know if you are interested in a separate session with Jenny. We will see if there is sufficient interest to run an evening session too.
Now I'm off to get some Swooning done, newly galvinised! debs x
Sue's Super Swoon
Sue's Super Swoon at The Workroom this week. Wow it's wonderful - good encouragement to get on with mine ( still languishing at one block at the moment) but there's plenty of company in the 'one-block-done' gang I think! How are you getting on with yours........?
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