Tips and Tricks
Wadding Offcuts

Keep your wadding offcuts for smaller projects like wall hangings or cot quilts.

Join them together to make a piece for larger projects.

Very small pieces of wadding can be saved and used for stuffing dolls and toys, to give them that antique traditional effect.

Quilting Tour
Long Beach Quilt Show 2009

 

 

Flying Needles will once again be heading over to California to experience the 2009 Long Beach Quilt show. Due to the amazing success of the first show in Long Beach last year, show organizes have expanded the show to incorporate other crafts as well as a larger range of fabric stalls, classes and seminars.

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Helens Long Beach Quilt Show Travel Log

 

I’ve always dreamed of attending one of the large quilting conventions held in the States.  The wealth of fabric, patterns and inspiration trapped within the pages of our treasured ‘Keepsake Quilting’ magazines makes our eyes boggle, so to have the opportunity to stand amongst the throb of like minded patchwork and quilters, and to see and touch the numerous selection of fabrics and quilts, makes ones heart skip a beat.

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2010 Long Beach Quilting Festival, California

 

Due to the amazing response to my quilting trip to Long Beach and Pennsylvania last year, I am exploring the possibility of running a tour in 2010, to revisit many of the places I enjoyed along the way.

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Helen's Shop Hop

Back Porch Fabric 

- Monterey, Pacific Grove

The Cotton Ball

- Morro Bay

Always Quilting

- San Mateo

Judy's Sewing Center

- Scotts Valley

The Nimble Thimble

- Gilroy

Eddy's Quilting Bee

- Sunny Vale

Piecemakers

- Costa Mesa, Long Beach

The Quilt Maker

- Napa Valley

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