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Harrogate Knitting and Stitching Show 2014
Saturday before last we were at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Harrogate. I was demoing on the Quilters' Guild stand, with one of the blocks from the 1718 coverlet, and Glyn helped out at Japan...
View ArticleThe Quilt Museum will be closing next year
I copied the following press release from the Through Our Hands blog - it has only just appeared in The Quilter magazine, and I know that many other Guild members haven't yet received their copy....
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Current projects - kilts and quilts
We have finished the third session of our kilt making course at The Museum of the Black Watch in Perth, where we are going on Tuesday evenings. The course is taught by Ruari Halford-Macleod and we...
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New VAT regulations on 1 January 2015
Dave Walker sums up the choices faced by microbusinesses/sole traders selling digital downloads - this will include quilt patterns and e books - from the UK when the new VAT regulations start on 1...
View Article#VATMESS - the new EU VAT regs on digital downloads - official response
Vince Cable MP has sent his reply to the Change.org petition re the new EU VAT regulations on digital downloads - The changes to VAT on digital products is not new or sudden - the change was agreed in...
View ArticleLatest on the #VATMOSS #VATMESS
Sorry that my blog posts this week are all to do with VAT on digital downloads and I haven't been posting any pictures, but if you ever buy e books, pattern pdfs, online quilt tutorials, block of the...
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pinterest and how images get copied around the internet...
When I first heard about pinterest, the site where people 'pin' images they've found on the internet, I was a bit suspicious about it. This seemed to be the ideal opportunity for people to copy images...
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Random photos and inpirations...
I had a rummage through the Picasa web albums for this blog, as I'm still puzzled how the photo in my previous post got out, but as I can't find it here,it must have got out via another route... maybe...
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Loch Lomond Sashiko at Otsuma Women's University's New Gallery
Merry Christmas! Reiko Domon posted these photos showing the Loch Lomond Sashiko quilts and my sampler from 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook' displayed at Otsuma Women's University's New Gallery,...
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Wools and fabrics in Stockton-on-Tees
We went into Stockton this morning to do a few bits and pieces, including checking out the Enterprise Arcade and Cotton Cloth's shop in the Castlegate centre.Samantha Grig has a yarn and knitting...
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Sally's Japanese Quilt Blocks quilt
Sally Ann Westcott in Hobart, Tasmania, sent me some photos of her Japanese Quilt Blocks quilt she's been working on for a while now. She wrote -I'm attacking a UFO! How long ago did I make the top?...
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Summerhouse in the snow
The summerhouse was weather-tight several weeks ago, before the first snowfall. This is how it looked earlier this afternoon. It was -7c last night and the temperature has stayed below freezing all...
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Happy New Year!
So I don't miss the New Year nine hours ahead of us for my friends in the east of the world, Happy New Year! Alas we won't be at the Sensoji tonight but we will be there in January.We have had an...
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Sally's Japanese Quilt Blocks Quilt - part 2
I don't have anything much to report yet re further progress, but Sally's cat Norman obviously feels he needs to lend a paw today!
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Sally's Japanese Quilt Blocks quilt - finished
Sally has just sent me photos of her finished Japanese Quilt Blocks quilt. She writes -It needs blocking but it is done! I hope you like!I like it a LOT! I love the way Sally has integrated that...
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Loch Lomond Sashiko - first session after New Year
Bad weather (snow) postponed our December workshop, but we met yesterday at The Studio for our fourth session. It was even sunny for part of the day and Isabel had got the workshop warmed up by the...
View ArticleThe latest on Digital VAT
There is a campaign to get changes to the new digital VAT charge regulations that came in on January 1st 2015. For all the latest info, see this link to the EU VAT Action blog.As more 'guidance' from...
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Documented Life 2015 project - week 1
Frieda Oxenham inspired me to have a go at journalling and I joined this year's 'Documented Life' project run by Art to the 5th. It is free to join in and there are lots of great tutorials (some free...
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Tokyo here we come!
It might almost be T-shirt weather in Tokyo for us, as the forecast is for around 10c or higher most days, and quite a lot of sunshine. Among other things, we're going to collect the Loch Lomond...
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Travel to Tokyo
We had good flights yesterday and earlier today - had to do a quick doublecheck on what day I'm having as I wrote that!Our planes - There were some spectacular skies during the earlier part of the...
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