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"I have always sewn, right

back from my school days."

Tilly’s quilt...
with Tilly

Circles quilt

Fast forward to today and things might have changed quite a
bit. In my ‘Sewing Shed’ in the garden I have several machines,
my most recent one being a Simply Sixteen Longarm with
LittleFoot frame. From nothing to here in just over fi ve years.
Most people know too that I administer the UKQU.co.uk
website, built by my own company, res.digital. My dream was
to give quilters from across the UK a single place to go to fi nd
interesting stories, in the form of blogs, designs and patterns,
some free, some available in shops that can be found there,
and generally build a quilting on-line community for the UK.
This hobby has taken over my life almost!
My latest quilt is not quite finished and is sat on the frame for

quilting. It’s a simple appliqué circle design using some leftover
Moda fabrics I had, laid over Makower Linea. So far it’s only The pattern can be found in Lyn Butler’s Store at the UKQU
pieced together at the time of writing but by the time Christmas website and whilst it really looks great is quite simple to
is over and done it will be decorating my next door neighbour's make but, make sure you have a lengthy ruler for the cutting
scandi style BBQ hut. We live the dream in our village! and hold it down tightly else it slips. Ask me how I know this
when you see me!
This last year though, the bloggers from UKQU.co.uk came
together once again on retreat and we played and sewed hard
for three days in November. I happened to have a Makower Visit www.UKQU.co.uk to find Lyn Butler’s Disappearing

Cool Cats squares pack with me, so Tilly my rescue moggy, now Sixteen Patch mini quilt and other blogs and patterns
has a pretty Disappearing Sixteen Patch mini quilt to rest her on the website.
weary paws on. She hardly moves from it to be fair.

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