Celtic Basketweave in Machine Quilting Unlimited

Look what dropped through my door here in Scotland....

My article on Celtic Basketweave looks terrific in print. I'm loving this issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited, have already read it cover to cover. Check it out to see my article on Celtic Basketweave. Here in the UK it's available as a hard copy at  http://www.contentedcat.co.uk/News.html or from  http://mqumag.com/ both hard copy and digital straight to your laptop or device....

1514 In Machine Quilting Magazine

Look what dropped through the door this week, fabulous magazine and a wonderful article even though I say so myself! Thank you Machine Quilting Unlimited, so pleased to play a small part, well five and a bit pages....hehe....lot's of other wonderful articles in there too. You can purchase this magazine on line and have it delivered to your door or your PC straight from the US at https://mqumag.com or have a hard copy delivered from http://www.contentedcat.co.uk here in the UK.

You can also see more of this quilt in this blog post 1514 aka The Horse

Back next time with some customer quilt...that's a promise...again....

Cover girl....Flower of Scotland Machine Quilting Unlimited

I was going to post some customer quilts but events of the day took over.....

The Postman only rung twice.....but with special deliveries.....

Deliveries....of fabric for planned up coming quilts.....that's always exciting...

And then this....I'm calling this one my magazine....I know there are many wonderful contributors but there is only one cover and that is all mine.....lol....you can get your own copy from The Contented Cat here in the UK or direct from Meander Publishing in the USA at  Machine Quilting Unlimited either hard copy or download, it's really easy to order over the web.

You can see the original post for my Flower of Scotland quilt here, Inner Circle Flower of Scotland

Then my purple wholecloth Flourish arrived back from the USA too, it's been away since last July . After winning a 'blue ribbon' for Best Machine Workmanship at The World Quilt Show 2013 in Manchester, New Hampshire, the winning quilts went on tour of the Mancuso Quilt Shows for 6 months....great to have it home again....you can read my original post here, Flourish...

All in all quite an exciting day.....

Published again in July issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited...

Wow...what a great issue this is, and I have a tutorial in it too, fantastic cover shot of Margaret's Quilt.
I am humbled to be in such illustrious company with people whose blogs I have followed for such a long time....
Margaret Solomon Gunn Quilts of Love
Judi Madsen The Green Fairy
Luann Kess in her thread shed to name but a few....

I am as ever very proud and happy to have been asked to contribute again to this wonderful magazine, it is surely the premier magazine for the machine quilting industry, if you don't already subscribe hot foot it to your nearest magazine store or subscribe at MQU online for a digital or hard copy version, it's easy, you just need your CC details and an email address.

WooHoo!

My First Published Article.....

I've been harboring a little secret, well trying to?  Seems like ages now, but way back beginning of August 2012, I was approached by Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine to do a 'little' tutorial on my Flourish wholecloth quilt.  

To be honest I was happy enough that this quilt won 3 ribbons on it's first outing at the Scottish Quilt Championships 2011 but was pleased to think others thought it worthy of further mention.

 I took it all step by step, have to say writing out the article was the easiest part,  uploading and sending 1500 words and 14 photographs was a little nerve racking but all went well even with our very slow archaic broadband connection.   All must have transferred over correctly and there were no rewrites, isn't technology wonderful?

Well, we got back from England late last night to find a hard copy of the magazine here on the doormat.  I am thrilled with the layout, it covers 6 pages, my photos look really great, what a pleasant experience!

You can buy your own hard copy or subscribe to downloads here at Machine Quilting Unlimited there are of course many more interesting articles, it's a fantastic magazine, one of the best 'WooHoo'!