JUNE together with our wonderful weather, so far has bought 2 coaches for a fabric fix to Butterfly Quilters on an arranged shop hop, and yesterday 2 fellow quilters from America who where in Cornwall on holiday paid me a surprise visit which was lovely.     I have decided to retire from doing the longarm service and I will not be accepting any more quilts for quilting.  .   I have enjoyed the many years I have had the priviledge of quilting so many wonderful quilts and meeting some truly inspiring and gifted quilters.   Please keep watching this space for details in the coming months for details of a replacement longarm quilter. I am hoping to use the free time to indulge myself in creating some new patterns and finishing of my numerous U.F.O's. I will still be selling fabric but would suggest you contact me first either by phone or e-mail to make sure I am here. Happy Quilting Carole Today I have been for a walk down the country lanes near my house and have been truly inspired with the wild flowers and buttercups and daisies.   The Hollyhocks were all standing tall and proud and in my mind the seeds have been sewn for two new quilt designs inspired by the abundance of wild flowers. Elderflowers are now ripe for picking and I am going to do some elderflower champagne tomorrow.   I am so excited as we are now stocking some of Pat Bravo's fantastic fabrics and patterns the vibrant colours and the quality of the fabric with it's high thread count is a joy to work with.   I have had great fun using fabric from her Dreaming in French Collection to make a quilt top using my 5 x 5 pattern design.   I used a lime green thread to quilt Petaline design by Hermoine Agee on my longarm which shows up really well on the purple backing.    Pictured below is a Free Pattern by Pat Bravo called Orchestra a copy of which is included with the purchase of the quilt kit. Pat's design is a wonderful showcase for her "Poetica " Collection   The Kit containing all the fabric needed to complete the Quilt Top is £95.00 plus Postage (backing and wadding to be purchased seperately) The finished size of the quilt is approx 97" x 84" Block size 13" x 13"      SHABBY CHIC WILDFLOWERS COLLECTION BY RACHEL  ASHWELL ". . I have just finished a quilt I started in the Braiding Workshop taken by my friend and teacher Jan Dodd using 2 1/2" pre-cut 2 1/2" strips from the entire range and 1 1/2 metres for the background and borders plus 3/4 meter for framing the braiding and binding from the Wildflowers collection.  I enjoyed using the Trapezoid 2 1/2" ruler designed by Rachel Cross in conjunction with Creative Grids. Those who took part had a productive and enjoyable day please contact me for more information.    WILDFLOWER PARQUET QUILT   FLORAL PINWHEELS by Heidi Pridemore   ACCUQUILT The Accuquilt has lots of wonderful die shapes from squares, triangles, strips ,flowers, leaves, circles, RickyTims Arabesque designs to the Rose of Sharon by Sharon Pederson together with a complete Alphabet. So many possibilities to mix and match to design a wonderful quilt and have the accuquilt cut out each piece accurately. I have a large collection of the dies and will be having special days for the hire of the machine and dies by the hour. Please contact me for more information either by e-mail or telephone 01288 321480. Anna used the alphabet dies to personalise the bunting she was making at our last workshop, pictured below and with the left-over fabric she created two wonderful birthday cards I DESIGNED AND MADE THESE TWO QUILTS TO SHOW CASE THE LOVELY FABRIC DESIGNED BY MICHAEL MILLER CALLED "THE POPPY COLLECTION" Click onto the Materials section which is being updated at the moment. I quilted Butterfly Charm by Hermoine Agee I quilted the Wild Flower design by Jodi Beamish   FAIRY PRINCESS Designed by Leere' for Clothworks Below is the 22" approx Square panel I added different width borders (3 in total) using fabrics from the same range. Picture above. For more information click onto the Material section.   My inspiration for this quilt was a visit to the wonderful gardens at Docton Mill, Hartland, Devon. Whilst having a superb lunch there I decided I would go back home and design a quilt and below is the result. My dear friend Mary Williams helped me, and kept me on track. The quilt has been made-up three times two with a black background, one of which Mary hand appliqued with button hole stitch. The other quilt with the pale background was machined. For the Central Block and the surrounding 12 blocks FLOWERS AT THE MILL DESIGNED BY CAROLE SEDGLEY One of the Projects: including the recipe for the chocolate cake. 5 x 5 quilt pattern Designed by Carole Sedgley 56" x 56" approx Pattern £5.50 5 x 5 quilt using directional fabric. The Fabric range is Stitches designed by Lynette Anderson for Henry Glass click onto materials for more information   Butterfly Quilters take great pride in stimulating their students to draw on their own artistic creativity to produce beautiful quilts, handbags,clothing and seasonal projects.

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