BossyOz

  I am not very good a resisting funny, sweet or cool t-shirts and recently I have had a chance to design some of my own.  The 'Patch by patch quilters create loving hugs' design as shown above was inspired by the Quilts for Care Leavers project which I've been involved in to and from since the start. The foundation paper pieced flower in the design is a pattern which I am working on for a September feature on the UK Quilters United website .   To see many more of my quilting related designs (most of them available in men, women and youth; and in up to ten different colours), please head over to Amazon -  direct link to my designs .

Hair scrunchies With girls around, it seems that one can never have too many hair scrunchies! They are super easy to make with jelly roll strips and some elastics! ( Instructions on UK Quilters United ) Odds & sods bags Perfect little bag for storing some nappies, wet wipes, spare set of clothes and a small cuddly toy. You can make these fully reversible bags with two Fat Quarters. ( Instructions on UK Quilters United ) Art work display To avoid making wholes in the walls in our rental space, I made this art work display by using some hand printed charm squares. Once folded in half and sewn together, I filled them with dried yellow peas. ( Instructions on UK Quilters United )

I love reading and I always like to try new types of books, as well as new authors. As a result of this  I started a BOOK CLUB for QUILTERS, back in 2018. During a few months, when I was too busy, another quilter stepped in and selected the books, but I have been back selecting books for a while now.  Every month a quilting related book is selected and posted on our website, ukqu.co.uk , around the 20th of the month before. This is to allow everyone plenty of time to get hold of the books as sometimes they are only available second hand. There are quite a few prolific quilting novel writers with Jennifer Chiaverini probably the most well-known. We have only picked one of her books for the book club, as there are so many others who are less well known.  During the last two years we have read books by a wide variety of authors. The complete list is below; The Last Runaway  by  Tracy Chevalier  ( info ) Sew Deadly  by  Elizabeth Lynn Casey...

It is almost a year since I kicked off the UKQO Book Club with Tracy Chevalier's The Runaway and arranged for us to work with British Patchwork and Quilting to announce the books. After I had selected the books for the first three months, Arlene was kind enough to carry my late-night idea forward for a few months, but recently she's had to focus on other things and we put the Book Club on hold. The books selected during 2018 were; April:  The Last Runaway , Tracy Chevalier -  my review May:  Sew Deadly , Elizabeth Lynn Casey -  my review June:  The forgotten seamstress , Liz Trenow -  my review July:  The quilter’s apprentice , Jennifer Chiaveverinu (selected by Arlene) August:  Alias Grace , Margaret Attwood (selected by Arlene) September:  To Scotland with love , Patience Griffin (selected by Arlene) October:  Quilt as desired , Arlene Sachitao (selected by Arlene) November:  Happenstance ,...

The reproduction of the first book by and about UK Quilters United is now available on Amazon. Three formats are available; Kindle (text only) Paperback (text only) Paperback (full colour version including images and pattern)

Did you know that there is a book about UK Quilters United? Yes, it is true. There is a book about us! Amazon Kindle and Paperback versions Three years ago Julie Passey, one of our Facebook members, together with over 100 writers created a book by and about UK Quilters United. A limited print run of only 100 copies were created and sold to members for them to keep or to be given away as gifts to likeminded people. The original book cover It is absolutely amazing that the original Facebook group has grown from two complete strangers (Juliet and Nina) to well over 15,000 members, not to forget that we also have an incredible website since a year back, thanks to Sylvia! With an aim to try to document the journey UK Quilters United has been on, we are currently in the planning phase of a new book. To give more people a chance to read the original stories and to encourage everyone to contribute a story to our second book, Julie has kindly given us permission to reprodu...

I have decided to add a small amount of PDF patterns to a new Payhip shop - www.payhip.com/bossyoz . So far I have added patterns for a memory cushion, which also would be lovely as a Valentine's Day gift (it would definitely last longer than flowers!), an easter egg template and my very popular pushchair / stroller / buggy footmuff pattern and tutorial.