The Loving Earth Project

As part of our Summer theme of 'Mend', today's post highlights a project that might keep you occupied if the remaining weeks of the Summer holiday don't turn out to be all that sunny. Rachel's post 'Mending for the Soul' discussed the positive benefits sewing can have for mental health and to calm anxiety. If, …

MENDING FOR THE SOUL

When the theme of mending was decided by the team a while back, I knew straight away that I wanted to share my journey of using sewing to help mend and sustain my mental wellbeing over the past couple of years. It's definitely been a tough year for us all and I think even the …

New Young Quilter video workshop!

Here at Youngish Quilters we're focussing on the theme Mend. Over the summer we're going to explore this theme in all sorts of different ways. Today we have a wonderful sewing tutorial to share with you. Have a go at making a Snack Pouch, taught by Gill Towell. Sewing is a fantastic way of improving …

A Few Mends of Mine

With 'MEND' as our theme, I thought I would share some of my mending with you. I have enjoyed the process of mending things far more since a few years ago I heard about 'visible mending'. My friend showed me a mend on her woollen winter coat. The coat was red, the mend was green! …

MEND Inspiration – Heidi Parkes

I first learnt about the Heidi Parkes when I attended the 2018 Modern Quilters Guild QuiltCon event in California (I know – so lucky!). There were many speakers there who were new to me and Heidi Parkes was one of them. As soon as I heard about our summer MEND theme here at Youngish Quilters …

Introducing our Summer theme: Mend!

The Summer months here at Youngish Quilters are going to be all about mending. After the awful impacts of the pandemic which has now lasted for a year and a half, we all have a lot of mending to do: emotionally, physically, in terms of our mental health, our relationships, our education, our health system, …

Vlieseline’s Quilt-A-Long

Fancy making this gorgeous quilt? During July Vlieseline are hosting an exciting quilt-a-long and you can take part! The quilt was designed using Vlieseline's Quilters Grid product and they have kindly donated some for you to use. So any YQ members or YQ volunteers who would like some, send us a message and we'll post …

Search Press Spring Festival

This weekend Search Press book publishers are hosting a Spring festival with lots of wonderful craft tutorials, projects and demos. It's completely free to attend! It's on Saturday 1st - Monday 3rd May 10am - 4.30pm on the Search Press Facebook page. Click here Thank you to Search Press - they sponsor our YQ book …

Some cool quilty links …

Create & Sustain (@create.and.sustain on Instagram) is a non-profit organisation 'dedicated to shifting environmental change with our collective voice in the quilting, home sewing, and craft industries'. They have been very active with live events recently and have done really interesting take-overs, such as by Zak Foster who makes burial quilts (@zakfoster.quilts) and ChiChi Nwizu …

New Year, New Inspiration – the Zaha Hadid project

Al Janoub Stadium, Zaha Hadid Architects The fluid lines in Zaha Hadid's architectural designs seem to lend themselves so well to a quilting project! In this week's project, therefore, the star of the show will be curving lines. There are two different designs you can try your hand at: one inspired by the Al Janoub …