Designed by Caroline Alfreds for 3 Wishes, this new quality fabric is a must for making beautiful quilts and home décor accessories. Featuring a whimsical patchwork of folk fabrics with flowers and butterflies in deep greens and vibrant pinks it is just perfect for patchwork and quilting, tops and t-shirts requiring some structure, accessories and home decor.
Plus you can download a FREE quilt pattern using this collection on the 3 Wishes website!
| If you are thinking of buying a sewing machine make sure you talk to us first, we have some Amazing Janome Offers with savings of up to £500 plus FREE Quilting Kits available on selected Janome models. All machines purchased from us include 1hr FREE tuition tailored specifically for you. Don’t delay all offers are subject to stock availability |
This month you will find us at the following events: Saturday 18th May Makit LQ&N Fair Peterborough, followed by Springfields Quilt Show Spalding on Friday 31st May & Saturday 2nd June. If you don’t manage to visit a show you can catch us on the UK’s leading craft channel HOCHANDA TV on Sunday 19th May where we will feature our latest kits. We are currently putting together our July to December Workshop Schedule, check out the website as new classes available for booking are being added every day.
Have a go at Wet Felting
It’s easier than you might think! and with the help of expert Clare Bullock in just two days you will create your own unique needle case, perfect for yourself or to make as a gift. Friday 31st May & Saturday 1st June 10am to 4pm Book Online Here
1/2 Price McCalls Patterns Offer ends soon…… 20th May 2019
Calling all dressmakers, available in-store only don’t miss out on the opportunity to purchase the latest spring/summer McCalls Patterns at 1/2 price.
Project Linus – “A Quilt is a hug you can keep”
The next workshop here at Tudor Rose is this Friday 10th May, if you would like to come along and join the group please just give us a call on 01234 824983 to let us know you are coming or for further information you can email the Bedfordshire coordinator at elainegreatex2@gmail.com
If you are thinking of buying a sewing machine make sure you talk to us first, we have some Amazing Janome Offers
with savings of up to £500 plus FREE Quilting Kits available on selected Janome models. All machines purchased from us include 1hr FREE tuition tailored specifically for you.
Don’t delay all offers are subject to stock availability
Is it too early to talk about Christmas? Not if you want to get a statement quilt finished in time, and grab a bargain fabric! Summer is the best time to stock up on themed fabric supplies, before prices start to rise.
The Inprint at Jane Makower Christmas fabrics are one of our more unusual collections, featuring such themes as ‘Christmas in Britain’ (note the Angel of the North), ‘Santa in Snow’, and ‘Narnia’. Currently all at 50% off – just £6.40 per metre
Don’t forget to check out Lewis & Irene’s website for lots of inspirational free projects!
And finally…Pretty And Co-ordinated from Sugar & Spice Textiles. Spools and buttons make a perfect compliment to all your sewing-themed projects. 50% off = £5.45 per metre.
| 23% OFF Rococo & Sweet by Lecien A collection of pretty vintage feel fabrics featuring roses in shades of pink and lilac plus a complementary print design. NOW £10.00 Offer ends 26.2.2019 |
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Sweet Tea by Susan Wheeler
for David Textiles
Vintage feel fabric featuring Tea Cups and blooms with a complimentary swirl pattern fabric.
NOW £8.00 per metre
Offer ends 26.2.2019
Also available a delightful panel featuring a mouse and her tea pot housediscounted by 27% to £6.00
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Fabric Freedom produce some amazingly good value fabrics. We’ve got several of their collections available on the website, but these florals are my favourite.
This craft cotton includes a wonderful fabric imprinted with large peacocks surrounded by various flowers using a range of greens, blues and neutrals, with some metallic gold to give the fabric a pinch of sparkle. There is also a
a lovely uniform flower pattern using a range of greens, blues and neutrals, with some of the fans outlined in metallic gold, and a small flower pattern using a range of greens, blues and neutrals, with some of the flowers outlined in metallic gold.
Inspired by the rich colours of tropical destinations, this fabric features pink flamingos hiding amongst tropical leaves in shades of green and blue,
beautiful peach/orange flowers adorned on a pale background with tropical leaves surrounding them, exotic flowers in red, purple and yellow adorned with turquoise green leaves on a background of warm yellow, and
tropical leaves in tones of green, blue, peach and cream along side small flowers in yellow and peach.
A unique collection including dark blue coloured fabric imprinted with flowers and leaves, pink coloured fabric with different coloured leaves,
blue coloured fabric imprinted with white leaves and an adorable
soft light green coloured fabric imprinted with leaves and hearts. Something a little more subtle for your Valentine’s Day gifts!
New to our website – the Fabric Freedom Heritage Floral collection. This orange and white blend has navy and orange floral sprigs on a white background in an almost zig-zaging pattern, pink seed heads and leaves on a vibrant orange background, and white leaves and flowers on a rich orange background. Just £7.60 per metre!
Any of these collections would work really well in a traditional herringbone quilt, contrasting with a white background. Try this easy free pattern from Micheal Ann Made http://www.michaelannmade.com/2014/01/summertime-herringbone-quilt-now-free.html
You can find all of our Fabric Freedom collections on our website here.
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I have been having lots of fun this week experimenting with our new range of Powertex products. Having worked with a visiting Powertex tutor I took myself off to Powertex UK to learn more about this exciting product.
Powertex fabric hardener and textile hardener is an environmentally friendly water-based liquid sculpting medium. It can harden absorbent materials such as textiles, paper, cardboard, fabrics, leather and fiberglass and can be easily combined with self-hardening clays, concrete, stone, ceramic, wood, sand and Stone Art.
Over the summer I have been collecting a range of materials to recycle as Powertex offers masses of opportunities for ‘green’ crafting. I have turned many old t-shirts into t-shirt yarn which we will come in really useful once I move onto bigger figures. Old jewellery is also a great resource, broken necklaces and old buttons and beads. I also discovered some lovely but stained old crocheted doilies in a charity shop and these too will be getting the treatment.
As a way of introducing Powertex I am running a course called Out of the Frame. 
This week I have been busy making the samples. First I covered my base materials – old frames and canvases – with some of those recycled t-shirts then I got creative. Powertex is absorbed by the fabric but takes some time to become hard so it allows for lots of opportunities to change my mind and reposition the elements of my designs. In order to get some elements to adhere you need a little patience and some jiggery pokery with scraps of lace and paper.
Time for a brew and step back for half an hour, and now the pieces I have been working on are well on the way to dry. At this point I need to pick a palette of colours for each piece I’m working on. Steampunk is gradually turning into shades of blue while my fantasy frame is a little more subtle with metallic shade.
Unlike other coloured media you cannot go too wrong with colour on Powertex pieces. If it’s too strong I simply take a little Powertex on my brush and blend it over to soften the effect. A little patience, a little layering, and I am done.
Now….fairy houses….hmmm!
Purple Boots x
Nothing much has changed, the weather is still dismal and grey. Sad to say but I still haven’t finished my lovely big crocheted throw. Nearly there, 180 rows done, just the edging to do. Getting quite excited now the end is in sight. It has been quite nice spending a little time each evening on the sofa in front of the TV with my ever-growing blanket keeping me warm. Spent the day out with my son and 10 other 14 year olds over the weekend paint
balling. Well they were paintballing, I sat in the car and crocheted, jumped out into the rain, fed them, sent them off again, jumped back in the car, crochet and repeat. They all had a brilliant time and were exhausted by 4 o’clock. I had a marvellous time being able to crochet without feeling guilty that I wasn’t doing housework/ironing/vacuuming etc etc.
I have however also been working on a couple of my many UFOs. Just a few…
Having finished this lovely little piece, I have rediscovered my love of handwork, I started this stumpwork piece in a class with Kathy Laurel Sage about 18 months ago and I completed it last week. Just waiting for a frame now. And of course, I’ll have to find a home for it. It has reminded me how much I enjoy cross stitch and embroidery. And goldwork… and tapestry… and jewellery making in its various guises.
I’ve joined a monthly group starting next month here at Tudor Rose Patchwork with our new tutor Sue Stallard and I’m very excited about the projects we’ll be doing in class. The samples for each class are lovely and I’ve had a wonderful day ordering in the beads and crystals we’ll need.
The shipment of Czech delicas arrived on Thursday. Huge amount of work involved getting them ready for you all but actually thrilled about new projects that are ahead of us. Not to mention a couple of UFOs too… along with a bracelet and a necklace that need attention.
Help! There’s just too much to do and not enough time. Maybe if I didn’t sleep, eat, work or have to do anything with the children. And I keep finding more to do. I belong to a couple of Facebook groups and every day there’s a new pattern I’d like to make or new products I’d like to try. A good job I don’t belong to any other social media. It’s just madness. How do you decide which project, piece you’re going to work on next? Do you try and finish something a section a week whilst working on several others at the same time or just wing it, work on what you feel like that day?
Over the past few weeks we have focused on some adorable animal prints, but we feel it is time for a change so today we are showcasing the ‘A New Leaf’ collection from Mitzi Powers for Benartex. It has a beautiful watercolour style with some strong prints to make it stand out from the crowd.
A New Leaf is a particularly big range with six fabrics in total. The cream backed fabric stands out in the collection with its watercolour floral print in oranges. It works beautifully with the two darker fabrics in the range; a multi-coloured pebble pattern on a navy blue background and a batik style floral print on a sea blue background. Finally the collection is tied together with three bold fabrics with repeating patterns. Two with retro swirls, one red and one green, and a light green fabric with a circular floral pattern.
Overall, an eye catching collection that will create some stunning projects. Because you have seven different fabrics to work with, a sampler quilt would be a great project. They’s be perfect for Bev Mayo’s Crazy Circles workshop in November too!
As always, patchwork projects aren’t limited to quilts. We think the ‘A New Leaf’ collection would look great as a bag. Our Spiced bag pattern has recently been made up in the ‘A New Leaf’ fabrics, but you could also try our Henrietta Hobo Bag pattern if you wanted a more unique style.
Welcome back to our monthly Featured Fabrics! Last month we showed you the adorable Timeless Treasures Mini Safari collection, this month we are sticking with the nature theme with a bold explosion of floral prints. The Paradise collection from In the Beginning Fabrics takes you through a jungle of bright colours with a retro feel.
We have three fabrics in this collection; a herringbone tile in grey, a sharp explosion in burnt orange, and swirling green vines on black. They are stunning to look at, but what will you do with them? As always the possibilities are endless; with so much going on in the range you will make quick work of colour matching them to other fabrics in your stash, from there your next project won’t be far away.
You could make Henrietta’s Hobo Bag. It requires 3 different fabrics so the whole Paradise collection can be showcased in your new bag. Imagine this bag in those lovely cheerful fabrics!!
