Quiltessential at Festival of Quilts

Once again we are trading at Festival of Quilts at the NEC from 16-19 August. Our stand, C47, is full of our latest quilt designs and lots of new fabric.

We have entered a quilt in the 2 person category for the first time this year and are proud to announce that it has been awarded a 'Highly Commended'.

It was designed 7 years ago by Darren at the same time he designed our logo but we have only just got round to making it. It is called Logo-Rhythmic. Darren did the design, drew the foundation templates, cut virtually all of the fabric and pieced half of the blocks. Ann made the other half of the blocks, joined all the blocks and did all the quilting and binding. She had to get up early every day for a week to quilt it in good daylight because she couldn't quilt black on black in artificial light in the evening after work.

She said never again whilst she was doing it but now it has had some success she is reconsidering her view!

See if you can guess which of the 4 quilts below is ours!

Review of Quiltfest, Jacksonville, Florida in Patchwork & Quilting Magazine

Ann and Darren visited the Quiltfest quilt show whilst on holiday in the USA last year and were very impressed with the venue and the quality of quilts on display. Presuming not many people in the UK know about the show and that none of the UK quilting magazines would have sent a journalist to it, Darren contacted Patchwork & Quilting to see if they would be interested in an article. His first dabble at journalism is in the August 2012 issue of the magazine! If you missed the magazine there is a link to the article on the news page of our website.
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Another Successful Beginners' Class

These four ladies were complete novices at the start of Saturday. They now know how to rotary cut fabric, safely and accurately. They can sew a quarter inch seam and make a variety of quilt block components. They have added borders, binding and an envelope cushion back to finish a cushion cover - all in a day. This was our best group of beginners to date. They even had time to hand sew the back of the binding - a first for our beginners class. They look very pleased with their efforts. Well done ladies! We hope this is the start of many enjoyable years of quilting.