Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilts. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Behind the scenes at the Festival of Quilts 2015

After a long drive and several coffees, we're finally setting up our stand for the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham. We're really excited to be here, and we hope you can make it too!

We're here with Juki Sewing Machines (stand A55 in case you wondered), and we're going through the long process of putting together our stand. We thought we'd give you a behind the scenes look at our set-up...

Normally we put up the quilts ourselves, but this year Juki brought along Liv. Liv is a window dresser, and she's absolutely fantastic. She's working wonders with our stand. Here's a sneaky peak:

Liv is into making displays 3D - so fun!

Coming together. Slowly...
Juki have got some snazzy new headers this year too - we think they look great! Here's a first look:

Shiny and new!
Emily's Thread Painting is also on display. I just looooove the colours in this. Mmmmm... The threads she used are Superior Threads, which are also on sale at our stand!

Close up of Emily's gorgeous thread painting 
We're also hosting a social media giveaway at the show - you can take part while you're here! 
Come take a selfie at our stand for a chance to win a machine quilting DVD!

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Pinteresting


It's been a very pinteresting day! Before this morning I had no idea what it was. But today I stumbled upon pinterest and decided to find our a bit more. Now I'm hooked!


Pinterest is a virtual 'pinboard'. It's an easy way to organize and share cool things that you find on the web. And then you can see what other people are finding and how they like to arrange the images. I've only just got my toes wet today, so to speak, but I decided to post about it anyway, just to show how easy it is to get going. You'll be able to watch my progress as I begin to get a better idea of how it works.

I love how the pages from this 'book mobile' look like quilted feathers. Here one image perfectly combines two of the great loves of my life; reading and quilting.The pages create such gorgeous feather shapes. It makes me want to re-create the pattern doodled on paper and quilted on my machine quilting frame. I am inspired!

Here's another neat image. What a brilliant thing to do with my button collection! I am definitely going to make this!


One last image. I have to include it because it is iconic. It would be difficult to find a more pinteresting mascot!