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What to watch in February 2012
New Each Friday.

This month we want you to look into that stash and think how you can use it; we introduce you to Steve Weekes a textile recycler who shows us how to upcycle a jacket to make it more stylish; Mandy Shaw uses up all sorts of recycled fabics to make a Mary Poppins style bag and Valerie Nesbitt shares an idea to make a little bag or pochette in just 5 minutes - so all you need is time!

Dawn Cameron-Dick shares with us a tip about use of colour and determining the colourvalue of your fabrics; Jennie revisits the Corners in the Cabin pattern (looks like a pineapple block but has more texture and stability) .

We wander round the Textile marquee at the Hever castle show ‘Country Life at the Castle’ where we meet a wide range of artists and their crafts – including Mark Smith who make custom guitars from unusal objects such as biscuit tins.

And of course, there is another stage of our lovely Rosebud Fayre Block of the Month quilt; this section covers the Flying geese borders.

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Don’t forget, Friday is the day the new films get put onto the site, so make sure you don’t miss them.

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Book of the Month for February 2012

An Angels Story

by Anni Downs

Designed by Anni Downs this lovely quilt is a mixture of patchwork and fused applique with a little bit of stitchery too; it includes also a number of smaller ideas using the same motives as used in the blocks of the quilts -

FREE UK POSTAGE FOR February 2012 ONLY

Price £19.95

www.justhands-on.tv/shopping/category/12/

Latest Prize Draw for Subscribed Members: Draw date is 14th February

These beautiful packs of Mettler threads are a FREE prize giveaway;

all you need to do is send us an email entitled 'threads' to justhandsontvcomp@g.mail.com

Prize Giveaway: - the prizes have now been allocated! so the competition is closed.

and the winners are:

Sandra Harrison
Marlene Hutchinson
Sharon Garrick
Jean Purdue
Jeanne Hainsworth Lamb
Thirza Fyfe

Our Be a Star Competition is now closed BUT Jennie is still running up, very quickly, how to make the simple but traditional Amish Friendship Star.

Blocks have come in - so thankyou.

The beginning of August saw us launching our new prize-giveaway competition where the prizes are a Janome TXL607 sewing machine, a satchel of 48 wonderful cotton threads from Aurifil and a couple of patchwork books to inspire you. All you need to do is Be a Star and Make Star block (or two or more) to be eligible. The blocks will then be used by Justhands-on.tv to make quilts for the charity Momentum. Watch the video for more ideas and inspiration and we will be putting up some patterns and showing you how to make other blocks in the upcoming months

closing date was 31st Dec.

Enchanted Forest:

Our latest giveaway was a new range of 6 Stained Glass patterns from Gail Lawther entitled ‘Enchanted Forest’ ;

The draw took place on 1st Dec 2011.

Aurifil Threads:

The winnners have now been drawn - check your emails over the weekend to see if you have been lucky ! Congratulations to:

Ann Till
Elizabeth Coates
Maureen Crook
Pam Southworth
Val Eaton
Grace Hutchinson
Linda Seward
Elizabeth Hipgrave
Sue Horner
Ann Harrison

We have 10 packs of Aurifil threads to give away to SUBSCRIBED members;

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4 very useful colours, 1422 yards in total, 100% cotton in a 50/2 which allows you to stitch a flat seam. It is also perfect for invisible ditch stitching, as the thread disappears into the valley between the seams. – just send an email to justhandsontvcomp@gmail.com with the title Threads and you could be a lucky winner.

The New ColourBox from Oakshott Fabrics containes 100 1/8thmetres of fabric, all colour themed and numbered; all these small pieces are backed up with yardage in their warehouse so you can really play and design and know that you can order more!

The prize draw has been made and two runners up will receive a stack of 5” squares

FREE PRIZE GIVEAWAY

Fabric strip rolls from Fabric Freedom called Daisy Delights:

The fabric draw for the strip bundles of Daisy chain fabrics were made today and the lucky winners are:
Fran Taylor; Ann Till; Gill Hill; Pat Bailey and Jane Robinson
The fabric will be winging its way to you next week
Congratulations and enjoy.

FREE PATTERN PROGRAMME

We have started our programme of free pattern downloads for subscribed members:

You will find it under Book and Pattern of the Month in the shopping pages.

This is called Streak of Lightning and I made it with a charm pack (actually I only used half of it) together with a co-ordinate and it uses simple half-square triangle units. These units lend themselves to a wide variety of settings but this is I feel one of the most striking;

Valerie (Aug 2011)

A sweet little strawberry scissorfob design from Lesley Brankin: (June 2011)

From Mandy Shaw we have a delightful pinkeeper, inspired by the 1950's: (uploaded April 2011) (and Mandy has done a little workshop on this which is coming soon)

the first of these (Feb 2011) is a delightful Chicken cushion pattern designed by Sue at Daisy Chain Designs:

You will find it under Book and Pattern of the Month in the shopping pages.

Want to spend the weekend sewing? Why not come to our wonderful retreat?

Scrap Happy Quilts & Pieceful Projects

Calling all fabricholics –this is a weekend to remember.

6-8th July 2012

Justhands-on.tv brings you three great workshops to delight and entrance all comers from sheer beginners to advanced stitchers. Experiment with shape, form and pattern whilst you revel in comfortable accommodation, enjoyable food and the total attention of your expert tutors plus some fun and frolics thrown in for good measure.

We will have a choice of THREE workshops for this weekend.

Scrap and Triangle Magic with Valerie Nesbitt
Experiment with your scrap stash, leftover 2½” pre-cut strips or that fabulous jellyroll and play with triangles to create fantastic quilts. No more complicated 3/8th and 7/8th maths to battle with - this is the Thangles way! A wide choice of designs from traditional style sampler quilts to more modern designs will be on offer along with lots of time saving techniques, tips and tricks to help make impressive quilts in no time. Fast and easy are two four letter words that Val just loves to use.

Jelly Roll Jubilee for All with Sarah Soward
Due to popular demand, this is another chance to join Sarah and make a jellyroll quilt in a weekend. Bring along your favourite jellyroll or purchase a new one and make a very special quilt such as Sarah’s ‘Seeing Stars’ design pictured here (one of the winning quilts featured in the Jelly Roll Inspirations book and the new 2012 Quilters Diary). Or choose from a selection of other delectable pattern options - all are quick and easy.

Textured Twiddling for all - it's Blocks Galore with Jennie Rayment
Magical manipulations for marvellously mystical 3D designs! Discover the delight of tactile fiddling and create a series of textured pieced and applied patchwork blocks. Combine these together and create a delectable small lap/cot/bed quilt. All these innovative and ingenious block creations are from Jennie's latest book 'Foldy Rolly Patchwork Pzzazz'. Ideal workshop for all sewers of any ability who enjoy fiddling with fabric and like learning magical ways to manipulate material

For more information and a booking form click here:

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Prize Giveways

The Draw was made on Christmas Eve and the winners notified by email:
We have two wonderful give-aways if you are a subscribed member; current fabric from the Fabric Freedom range (you should be able to ask for it in your local quilt shop)
4 rolls of 2 ½” strips x 11 fabrics of Coloured Dreams

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11 Fabrics from the Wm. Morris Range

And the winners are:
Susan Newby-Robson
Judith Wilcock
Sue Brown
Christine Milne
Susan Freeman
Gillian Mandy
Sue Ward
Heather Gray
Maureen Gratwick
Charmian McDermid
Nesta Felthouse
Francis Reid
Sorry - as I don't know all the addresses do check in your 'spam' box to see if I wrote to you.

14 Lucky winners from our Subscribed Members of the Red rouge range; the full range is featured on the Fabric Freedom website but we have bundles to give away

Draw was made on Christmas Eve! - and the winners are

Nina Robinson
Irene Ferguson
Janet Rowsell
Irene Selway
Veryan Pollard
Joan |elch
Sandy Skelton
Jette Iyer
Coral Jackson
Shirley Hanlon
Margarita McBride
Lynn Hiollston
Brit Gill Oren
Marion Slater

Full range can be viewed on the Fabric Freedom website: www.fabricfreedom.co.uk/QuiltsAndProjects.html

and there are lots of free patterns there including Red Rouge designed by Sally Ablett.

Congratulations to you all and thank you for being part of Justhands-on.tv AND THE WINNER OF THE BCC30 SEWING MACHINE BY JANOME IS

Janet Allen who lives in Lancashire
And the winners of the other goodies are:

Donna Mathew on the Isle of Wight won the Quilters’ Paradise box of threads

The Scrumptious bags of threads and notions were won by:
Rosemary Rankin in Inverness
Sue Randell in Bodmin
Helen Bugden in Somerset
Iona Fosh in Devon
Rachel Williams in Bristol

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS AND THANKYOU FOR BEING PART OF JUSTHANDS-ON.TV

Justhands-on.tv Presenters

Valerie Nesbitt

A passionate Quiltmaker and patchwork teacher who just loves to share which is the concept behind Justhands-on.tv. With over 20 years patchwork experience, Val is able to teach most patchwork skills and continues to teach, and give demonstrations, mostly at Creative Quilting (which was founded by Valerie back in 1989) near Hampton Court in Surrey despite the inroads into her time created by Justhands-on. tv.

Luckily husband, Stuart, is equally passionate about his golf and also cooking – and makes sure that Val gets to eat!

Contact details:

Justhandsontv@googlemail.com

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Jennie Rayment

This skinnyish, red-haired, slightly wacky Brit is totally obsessed with 'Nipping and Tucking' - fabric manipulation and surface texture. Unique in her field, she's now internationally known for her quick, simple, innovative and original techniques with manipulated material and her hilarious lectures with real ‘Strip, Show and Tell’.

Jennie teaches a wide variety of classes for all levels and abilities of sewers from patchworkers, quilters and embroiderers to fashion, soft furnishing and home décor enthusiasts.

Although, much of her work is created in simple calico known as muslin in the USA, her elegant ideas and natty notions may be adapted for any type of fabric and used to make quilts, wallhangings, boxes, baskets, cushions, table linen and of course fashion garments and accessories.

Indeed, anyone interested in any form of needlework will be totally captivated by her deviously ingenious textural designs and can benefit from the wealth of creative ideas arising from her magic manipulations.

With six books on fabric manipulation techniques - all still in print, many articles and a variety of patterns including a twiddled and fiddled Block of the Month quilt, Jennie’s material magic goes on and on.

Contact Jennie:

email: jenrayment@aol.com

web site: www.jennierayment.com

5 Queen Street, Emsworth, Hampshire

PO10 7BJ, UK

Tel: 01243 374860

More Information

Patchwork Making

Patchwork is the art of placing various pieces of fabric together to form something else; originally it was through necessity because fabric was so very expensive and anything got cut up and pieced together again – often in the form of crazy patchwork, particularly in the Victorian era.

Patchwork was a frugal way of making items last longer by giving them a second, and maybe even fifth life – for example clothing would be handed down through the children with the final destination being a patchwork object – often a quilt. Various shapes are used to make patchwork but the most common is a square and English patchwork would have used hexagon shapes which would be sewn by hand.

The tradition of patchwork is not reserved for any one nation and it is a craft/tradition that has travelled – the Europeans exporting it to the Americas and it is their passion that has now returned to the Europeanand Uk shores with simpler, faster techniques in patchwork meeting the modern ‘need it now’ demand. Fabrics, as well as tools, are now made specifically for patchwork which has given the patchworker a wonderful new choice of colour and design.

Mixed Media Art Embellishing

Embellishing is a very simple way of adding an additional dimension texture and interest to a project.

Back in the Victorian era embellishing was most frequently seen on crazy quilts, where they stitched over the raw edges of small pieces of fabric, that were haphazardly put together, with ribbon and used embroidery stitches and embroidery thread to create fancy patterns.

Today anything goes; you can use fabric- cotton and synthetic - plastic, tyvek, lutrador, wash-away fabrics, threads, glues, buttons, sequins, glitter, foiling, wool threads, ribbon, ric-rac, add ruffles and folds, transfer photos onto fabric, paint your fabric, use cardmaking equipment such as rubber stamps, needlefelting for texture, Angelina fibres for adding gossamer like texture, and even burning back the synthetic fabrics.

You can sew by hand or by machine and your computer can help by printing from a scanned image onto specially formulated fabric.

Embellishing Stitching

This is a current trend to use various threads and other materials to add texture to the finished item; embellishment onto items has really grown recently because of the introduction of so many wonderful threads from the manufacturers, but also because manufacturers have realised that people like to individualize items – particularly clothing.

Stitching is one of the easiest and quickest ways of embellishing an item either by hand or by using the sewing machine. Embroidery techniques can also be employed to embellish an item particularly when the threads are quite thick and they can then be couched onto the surface rather than stitched right through the item (which with thicker threads or embellishing would be impossible).

Embroidery stitches were used by the Victorians in their crazy patchwork when they joined lots of different types of fabric together and then added beads, lace , ribbon – pretty much anything they could get hold of; and even today you can pretty much embellish with anything.

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