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Events, Instagram contest, Little Box of Sunshine, Threads

Instagram contest at the Festival

We’re hosting an Instagram contest at the 2017 Festival of Quilts! Join the fun for the chance to win some great prizes. Instagram contest rules Take a photo at the Festival of Quilts that includes the Juki or the Juki Club logo. You can use our photo props at the Juki Stand A 46 or capture the Juki logo or Juki club logo somewhere else in the Festival. Use #myjukiclub and #foq17. Multiple entries are welcome – you can post as many pictures as you like throughout the Festival.  ...

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Events, Little Box of Sunshine, Threads, Tools of the Trade

Getting Ready for the Festival of Quilts 2017

We’re busy getting ready for the Festival of Quilts. We love the show! The fun of preparations, planning projects, ordering threads, designing handouts and editing film reels. We look forward to the buzz when we get there on the Wednesday and greet the familiar faces of the other stall holders and show staff. Then it’s all go as we unload, find the stand and set up the sewing quilting and overlock machines. We put up the frames and hang quilts and arrange the threads. Everyone  ...

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Little Box of Sunshine, Project, Threads, Tips & Tricks

Summer Fruits

Our Cherries and Strawberries Sunshine Boxes and Moonshine Bags went out this week. Each month when I put together the Sunshine Boxes I think it’s my favourite. We really did enjoy putting this one together. The Sunshine Box has a retro cherry theme; very 1950’s American diner. The cherry line designs are easy and fun to execute and there are lots of simple ways to create interesting variations. By changing the number of cherries or the direction of the stalks you can create a  ...

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Events, Project, Threads, Tools of the Trade

Christmas in July: a Juki Club LIVE Event

During our Christmas in July event last weekend we celebrated summer and got ready for Christmas at the same time! The venue was the Franklins sewing shop in Colchester. Besides a massive selection of Juki sewing machines, Franklins have everything for the quilter and stitcher; a superb selection of fabrics, yarns and sewing & quilting gadgets. We had Juki’s big 4 top-of-the-line sewing, quilting and overlocking machines set up for demonstrations and test drives. It’s always  ...

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