5 Best Gifts For Quilters in the UK | Great Gift Ideas For Any Occasion

A sewing machine cleaning kit can often be forgotten about in the sewing room. The excitement of starting a new project can often over-shadow the maintenance of your sewing machine leading to lint build up underneath the needle plate and inside of the bobbin casing. Using a sewing machine cleaning kit can help keep your machine clean and extend the life of the parts on it, and with these specially made kit, cleaning up has never been quicker.

A tailor’s clapper is used by tailors to ensure the flattest seams in their clothing. After ironing the seam of a piece of clothing, the tailor’s clapper can be set on top while the seam cools, applying weight to flatten the seam. When you quilt your own quilts, you’ll know that one of the hardest parts is top stitching over bulky seams in your quilt top. Using a tailor’s clapper on the seams of your quilt blocks will help your finished tops stay flat making the quilting phase easy and quick.

When you have many small quilt pieces to sew, you don’t want to constantly be getting up to walk over to the ironing board. Wool is naturally a great insulator which means the heat from your iron is released by the wool as soon as you iron on it. This effectively irons both sides of your fabric at the same time, without burning it, removing wrinkles faster and easier. If you are often left with giant piles of wrinkled fabric right out of the dryer, a wool pressing mat will cut your time spent ironing in half.

What started with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back of a shop in Missouri has evolved to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the world.

These thread spool huggers are designed to keep thread tails from unravelling and losing tension so that your friend won’t end up with a tangled mess of threads ever again.