Happy Easter

Happy Easter!
a little chick on the back of of the quilt.
I love it when the back is just as pretty as the front.

Machine Quilter Clinic

Our First Machine Quilter Clinic 

is tomorrow, Monday April 7th 

at Mill Lodge on Cannick Hill in Lincoln.

The Clinic hours are between 10 and 4. 

If you don't have all day but fancy a visit 

please drop in for lunch. 

Lots of gals from Stitch in Kyme are coming for lunch at 1:00.

The menu looks great!  

There's plenty of room so bring a friend. 

We'll have a good selection of

Superior Threads available to try and buy.

Making Room

Gill's 6 foot New English Quilter frame

 Gill bought one of our New English Quilter frames at the NEC last summer. She settled for the 6 footer because she knew it would fit in her sewing room conservatory. Doesn't it look like a lovely place to quilt! Gill was thrilled, she really liked quilting on a frame but sort of wished she'd gone for the larger version. The 6 foot New English Quilter fits on a 6 foot table and gives 55 inches of quilting space. It's perfect for smaller projects like baby quilts and charity quilts and single bed quilts too. Here's one of Gill's first quilts completed on the 6 foot frame.

Gill's first quilt on the New English Quilter frame

 At first, Gill was sure that the 6 foot frame would be fine. But once she started quilting she knew that she wanted to do bigger quilts, so she decided to find 2 more feet.
 Gill called me up and ordered an extension; 

a set of three sturdier 8 foot poles

a set of our new seamless 8 foot tracks

a set of side arms to fit the wider poles.

The studio re-arranged to fit the 8 foot NEQ2

 The larger and sturdier 8 foot New English Quilter 2 frame now fits beautifully in Gill's sewing studio. 

It's amazing how you can find the space when you really want to.

Gill's first double bed quilt just off the new extended frame

 I love bright! This quilt definitely has the 'wow factor!' Gill's used So Fine #40 a special one-inch-colour-change variegated thread from Superior Threads that ideal for machine quilting. I really like how all the petal colours are reflected in the black background. Gill's going to exhibit this beauty at the Hever Quilters Guild Show later in the year.

machine quilting detail

April Fools

Sunday in Salisbury

The spire of Salisbury Cathedral

Sunday was a glorious spring day, clear and warm.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.

These yew trees must be hundreds of years old!

scroll work on a gate

lovely lines

arches draw the eye upward

to glorious texture in stone

Machine Quilter Clinic

Jackie and I have decided to offer
a short form of our Machine Quilter Retreats.
We're calling them Machine Quilter Clinics.
Many people say they'd love to come to a Retreat
but don't have the time. We hope this is the answer!

The Machine Quilter Clinics will run from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. We'll offer morning and afternoon tutorial sessions. Just like our longer Retreats, we'll plan the sessions around what the people coming want to learn.We provide quilting frames, sewing machines and all the materials.  Mill Lodge will provide  elevensies, a cooked lunch and afternoon tea and cakes. We'll have a good selection of Superior Threads available to try and buy too.

Our first Machine Quilter Clinic will be 

Monday April 7th. 

from 10 am to 4 pm

The venue is the lovely 

Mill Lodge 

at the top of Cannick Hill in Lincoln. 

Mill Lodge has provided a lovely space for us to use 

with plenty of room to spread out, 

 lots of natural light 

and easy on site parking. 

If you're struggling with machine quilting

don't suffer alone

come to our Machine Quilter Clinic

we're just what the Doctor ordered!

Our Machine Quilter Clinics provide

personal morning and afternoon

 machine quilting tuition

all materials included 

elevensies, cooked lunch,

 afternoon tea and cakes

and free parking too

all for£99.

If you are travelling any distance 
and would like to stay for the night 
we will help you book a room nearby.

Call or email Martha

to book your place

01526 378057

marthamilne@tiscali.co.uk

March Petwood Retreat

Jackie, Cathy and Diane looking at Juliet's quilt top

One of my favourite parts of our Machine Quilting Retreats are the afternoon sessions when we audition threads on the various quilt tops that the participants bring. It is inspiring for everyone to see the quilts.  It's fun to try out lots of different threads and to collaborate about how to quilt it .

Juliet with her Kaffe quilt

As you can see from the photos below
everyone learns from everyone else!

Cathy watching Jackie doodle a new design

Diane considering which thread and pattern to use

Cathy showing Juliet just how she arranged the blocks

Joy mastered a new line design!

Juliet making butterflies

a 'peicing detail' on Juliet's granddaughter's quilt

We all fell in love with this pieced pattern. I want to do a version where I add machine quilted details on the faces and clothes.