by GillyMac | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorised
With the Singer Overlockers on sale in Lidl this week and with the use of overlockers on the TV series, The Great British Sewing Bee, more and more of the sewing community has access to an overlocker. Overlockers are sadly often misunderstood tools. They can do so...
by GillyMac | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorised
I am no stranger to working on my holidays. After years of corporate life, where everything was urgent, nothing could wait and my phone was constantly ringing (with bad news), not working would be shocking. However now working on this holiday, isn’t really work, it is...
by GillyMac | Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorised
If you didn’t already know (how could you not know !) , on 22nd September we held a Dawn til Dusk Sewathon in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. From 7am until 7pm there was a flow of adults and then after school children and teens arriving at the studio in...
by GillyMac | Aug 22, 2016 | Uncategorised
After a pretty hectic summer, I now have time to breath as do a little of what I fancy. In saying that, there are many things I need to do to prepare for Autumn classes, catch up on admin for Gillymac, construct and finish my block swap quilt, and of course I need to...
by GillyMac | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorised
As a teen project for the Summer holidays, Gill and I found a great pattern for a reversible tote bag. It looked great and simple to make … so my first project at GillyMac Designs was to make it up. Method I first had to cut out my pattern by Novita Estiti from...
by GillyMac | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Now that there quite a few people coming along to classes and so many brilliant things are being created, it has been on my mind to find a way to share more of what we do just between ourselves. I already post some of the work in my gallery page on this website, and...
by GillyMac | Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorised
Recently I have been researching the world of applications for patchwork and quilting to see what’s out there. In teaching, I already regularly use a few, but I was ask to write an article for an online publication so I thought I’d share my top tips....
by GillyMac | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorised
I have no idea why it seems to be such a secret that to work with kids is just the best job (though teaching my two Thursday groups is a close run wonderful thing)!! This Summer, I’ve had the pleasure to teach just over 60 children, either at home, on Young Quilters...
by GillyMac | Jul 12, 2015 | Uncategorised
At school, my maths teacher, Mr Collins, used to say to me, “Gill, it’s no good being nearly right. Nearly right is wrong!”. The problem is that when something is nearly right, you want it to be right soo much it is very hard to make that leap of...
