QuiltingTwins

  Hello it’s been a while it’s been pretty hectic around here that feeling like your running and can’t stop. Hopefully next week we have more time for self care (sewing) and catching up we must make time for ourselves you no your tried when you say yesterday but you mean tomorrow or buy Christmas cards and there 80 already under your bed brought in the sale in January lockdown and your memory is getting poor. Or you get the foot bowl out to soak your wary feet and it’s been there a week without doing them.  Being creative certainly helps your mental health everyone of there should make time for a little creative hour and keeps you thinking straight we are getting excited for our new sewing room we have been helping our daddy with the planning not long now to go. We had a trip to IKEA with mum to look at storage, desks and a cutting table which has a crank so it’s adjustable so no backpain and cutting against the wall is so annoying. We are hoping to be in there for Christmas s...

  The sewing community and making friends with like minded people is the best. When we took the course to learn how to patchwork and quilt we was scared and anxious leaving college with a Btec in fashion and running a craft group with the elderly.  But we was sure we wanted to learn the techniques so we went in the small room with our machines and loved learning all the process of making a quilt we left there and one lady became close and we used to go to her house where she carried on the lesions and we made things together we are still firm friends.  Then we joined our local quilt group which we now help run and it’s wonderful to see speak to like minded ladies we have good fun sharing the passion together.  Some we visit patchwork/fabric shops together or share the mini bus to shows the moment of show and tell on the way home is the best of what you have brought. And usually our mega packed lunch with face wipes are shared between everyone if it’s been a hot day. ...

  Our trusty box room Aka sewing room we have outgrown it’s full to bursting and our bedrooms have the overflow. So our amazing mum and dad have decided the garage which was a wasted space of things we don’t us everyday. Is going to be our new sewing space we can’t wait to cut, sew, and iron all in one space and have storage we can actually go and find our tools/fabrics at ease. And serve tea and cake to our sewing friends when we see together. So operation garage conversion is underway by daddy he’s so clever and precise and us his helpers! Sometimes we are this ha ha!! 😁😁😂😂🤯🤯😬😬🥵🥵 Big big job but where soooooo excited.    The feature wall with have homemade rainbow 🌈 cladding and the rest white and bright. A massive desk for all our machines. Storage and a cutting and pressing station. Here’s the process in a few pictures….. Updates coming soon.  Before  Work in progress……. So far…….. Until next time. 

  We are seven months into our ambassador’s role for pfaff Uk  And what can we say it’s such an amazing opportunity, we love fulfilling bringing them ideas to help them improve there accessibility within there company and brand is the most rewarding work.  And helping them promote there amazing world class brand. We feel very privileged to be part of  the pfaff family and such a wide range of talented ambassadors and we have made so many lovely creative friends. Who have inspired us to explore dressing making again. We always said when we brought our pfaff second hand machines when you choose pfaff you don’t go back and it’s so true after trying many brands before we can sew with ease and confidence and we no they are perfection.  If in doubt buy a Pfaff Trust us you won’t regret it. 🧵🧵

  Exciting news to share we have been picked to be Abakhan Ambassadors we can’t wait to fulfil this wonderful opportunity we remember going to there Liverpool branch with our late nan 👵🏻 and watching her pick and buy fabrics and watching the staff chat and cut on the big cutting table and all the buttons and trimmings glistening in the haberdashery department. Since then we have grown to appreciate the company and all what it has to offer. We will promote there great company and amazing choice of haberdashery and fabrics we feel so grateful and lucky. ☺️☺️🌈🌈🌈🌈🧵🧵✂️✂️  Our favourite store to visit is in a old mill building in Holywell in North Wales it has the most beautiful restaurant with homemade meals so it completes a wonderful day out. BUY. CREATE. PROMOTE 

  Large print accessibility  When looking for a blog provider it was really frustrating trying to look for a blog which we could use where our larger font apple provides worked and you didn’t have to zoom and lose the wording we was reading.  Many blog providers don’t think about the large print world and accessibility. Or if we want to read other bloggers or websites some are tiny and we have to navigate by zooming and sometimes it goes off so if you can add a print expanding button that would be fantastic. Or even change your font bigger.  Hope this helps the online world think of others who haven’t been got perfect vision.  We have had that question how do you sew with a visual impairment? We adapt and use pfaff machines which help us with our sewing. We use aids if we need too magnifying equipment, lightbox, self threading gadgets etc.  We will never get the opportunity to learn to drive but we are thankful we can use a sewing machine. And kindles are a...

  20th July 2021 Hello sorry we have took so long to add another post the days go by so fast and where in the middle of a heatwave so sewing has ground to a holt as our small box sewing room is south facing its blazing 🥵 🥵 we miss sewing hopefully this weekend when it’s cooler we will get in there we have been hand stitching in the garden in the shade some days.  Here is a  Review on pfaffs new multi-function foot control The new pfaff new multi-function foot control we where nervous at first to try but after one week, of our loaned Pfaff performance icon and kit with this arriving, Wow 😯 😯 it’s heavy so we like how it stays in place and setting it up is so simple five functions to choose for the three buttons the sides you knock and middle press. Great for hands free quilting and piecing and sewers with arthritis in hands as no fiddly buttons to press. Great for visual impairments too as it’s all with touch from your foot no trying to see the buttons. It plugs into t...