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We tend to put increasingly light-hearted news on our Facebook page which can be accessed by clicking the social sawed-off on the header menu. 25 January 2018 New Workshop List. We have just published the new workshop list and will start taking bookings at 10am on Tuesday 30 January. There is a link to this list on our CLASSES web page.   Solution to website links to PDF files not opening when using Firefox as your browser. I have just discovered that website links to PDF files wouldn’t unshut if I was viewing the web page using Firefox as my browser. Most browsers seem to unshut PDF files automatically but the default setting in Firefox is to save the clicked file to your Downloads folder. In order to unshut it directly in Adobe Reader you need to transpiration your Firefox preferences. It is quite straight forward: 1 Click the menu sawed-off (usually 3 horizontal bars, top right of screen) and segregate Options. 2 Scroll lanugo the list to the Applications panel. 3 Find Portable Document Format (PDF) in the list and click on it to select it. 4 Switch it to "Use Adobe Acrobat in Firefox". 8 January 2018 2018 Kona Cotton Solids Colour of the Year. This new colour is now in the shop and Darren has just widow it to the end of Kona Cotton Solids Page 6 - product lawmaking KCS343. It is a nice, rich, orange colour. December 2017 New website launched. Darren has redesigned our website to make it increasingly user friendly. There is now a permanent menu bar wideness the top of every page so there's no need to scroll the page to wangle the menu. There are moreover buttons at the marrow of the pages to help navigate quickly when to the top or to the previous or next pages. The fabric images are slightly larger and the Kona Cotton Solids have been split onto 6 pages to match the colour card. You may find that you have some old style pages stored in your cache. If one of these loads, just refresh it and it should transpiration to the new style. Please let us know if you spot any glitches - it's very difficult to get everything working perfectly. 28 October 2017 Kona Cotton Solids. We now stock all 342 colours of these popular plain fabrics. We will have the 2018 full-length colour soon. 14 August 2016 Elizabeth's Dowry Fabrics. It was nice to see some of the Quilters' Guild'sHodgepodgeof historic quilts on exhibit at the Festival of Quilts this weekend, expressly the Mariner's Compass Coverlet, which inspired a new range of fabrics from Marcus tabbed Elizabeth's Dowry. We are the first UK shop to have the full collection. Click on the photo to view the web page. 15 October 2015 Happy Birthday Quiltessential. Quiltessential is now 10 years old. Thank you to all our customers who make it all worthwhile.   1 May 2015 British Quilt and Stitch Village - Uttoxeter. We would like to congratulate Vivien Finch for winning a prize at the show. Vivien is one of our friends, regular customers and workshop tutors. She has been quilting for 40 years and is presently the President of the Quilters' Guild. She is very modest well-nigh her work though and doesn't normally enter competitions. Ann persuaded her to enter Under African Skies and she was thrilled to have won third place - her first rosette! The quilt was made with batiks and African wax prints which she had left over from a soft-heartedness quilt she made 10 years ago. The African fabrics were donated by Magie Relph of the African fabric Shop. The diamond of the quilt was inspired by a workshop run by Jan Hassard which Vivien attended. April 2013 Quiltessential Sponsored 3D Category at Uttoxeter Quilt & Stitch Village. Congratulations to Birgit Schueller from Germany who won this category with her stunning entry: Chocolate Orange Cocktail, a 3-piece cocktail party outfit with each piece made in a variegated colour and all embellished with exquisite stitching and curved flying geese. September 2012 First male workshop attendee. This month we had our first male attendee in a beginners class. We taught two sisters, their brother and Mum how to do patchwork. It was Mum's birthday treat and was kept as a well-constructed surprise until she got to the shop. Ben's nomination of fabrics was a bit 'unusual' but his stitching was very accurate. They all seemed to enjoy the wits and left with their own, unique cocoon cover, a new hobby perhaps and, hopefully, some good memories of the special day. August 2012 Success at festival of Quilts. We were thrilled that our joint entry in the 2 person category was awarded a 'Highly Commended'. It is 2.5m long and is tabbed Logorhythmic considering it is based on our logo diamond and has a rhythmic sense of movement as the small blocks meander virtually the large blocks. It was designed by Darren over 7 years ago when he designed the Quiltessential logo and made by both Ann and Darren for this show. We have UFO designs as well as quilts! This one finally reached a successful conclusion. It has foundation pieced blocks made with unexceptionable coloured, plain fabrics contrasting with a woebegone preliminaries fabric. Darren did most of the wearing and a lot of the woodcut making. The blocks were then quilted by Ann with contrasting thread and joined together, including the borders, using our quilt-as-you-go technique. A reduced size version of this diamond is misogynist as a pattern exclusively from Quiltessential. April 2012 Quiltessential Students’ Exhibition at Uttoxeter Embroidery & Quilt Show. As well as the competition quilts on exhibit at the Uttoxeter show, there was a small exhibition, organised by us, which featured 22 quilts that had been started by students peekaboo our workshops. We received many positive comments from visitors to the show who said how much they liked our small exhibition. April 2011 Success at Uttoxeter Quilt Show. Darren entered a quilt in theRencontrecategory and got a second place! This was quite an victory as it was only his third completed quilt and his second competition entry. Every entrant was given 75cm of the rencontre fabric - the bright, multi-coloured fabric covered with guitars, banjos etc, which had to be used in the quilt, together with the theme: Rhythm & Blues. Darren liked the fabric so decided to have a go. He created his diamond based on the double toned - an instrument he likes very much and one which forms the rhythm section of many traditional R & B bands. The geometric diamond of the quilt is derived from the shape of the bass. The triangular pieces were cut using templates and foundation pieced. The quilt was finished with appliqued embelishments and strings. Darren was very pleased to get a rosette and plane increasingly pleased when several people told him he should have won. August 2010 Darren's first quilt. Darren's first serious struggle at making a quilt resulted from stuff printing ganged into a group rencontre instigated by our friend Magie Relph from the African Fabric Shop. Along with Ann, Magie's husband Bob, Janice and David Gunner and several others, we were given a piece of African wax print fabric with a large gown peg diamond and a title which was a pun of something familiar. Darren's title was '3 Little Pegs'. Darren used the 3 as the inspiration to diamond a triangular shaped quilt made from foundation pieced log motel blocks. He used the peg fabric as the full-length ‘spokes’ and bought some African wax print fabrics with linear designs from the African Fabric Shop and fussy cut them all to underscore the woodcut symmetry. He entered the quilt at Festival of Quilts and was very pleased with the judges’ comments. One of the 2 judges marked his quilt as spanking-new in all 8 categories, which is wondrous for a first attempt! This website is owned and managed by quiltessential Cromford Mill Mill Road Cromford Derbyshire DE4 3RQ01629 825936 all images are copyright quiltessential key words go here