Well, nearly a full year has passed since last year’s event and preparations for the Festival Of Quilts 2016 are hotting up Mum & I have stand plans and drawings all over the dining room table and are already planning fabric ranges, samples & more. Register for
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We have just added these beautiful embroidery scissors from Prym to to the Empress Sewing Store. They are precision made, and gold plated for added luxury. Wouldn’t they make a super gift or treat!? Prym Stork Gold Plated Embroidery Scissors
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New range of bag handles now available from Empress Mills. Plus learn more about a recent sample bag created by Sheila including the handles, clasps, fabrics & studs used to create the perfect finished piece…
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We are delighted to make available the latest Jelly Rolls, Charm Packs, Scrumptious Squares and more pre cuts available in the Minshan Fabric Range! Minshan is a beautiful range from leading design house Lewis & Irene. The collection is inspired by a dazzling festival of light where colourful lanterns twinkled like pretty jewels and silk pandas
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Two new ranges of designer elastics from Prym. The options in include Block Colour Elastics (nine shades available) and Design Elastics featuring seven varieties. Both the new ranges are the superb quality you would expect from Prym Haberdashery. What will you use the new elastics for? We are sure you have plenty of ideas but here are a few to inspire you…
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Introducing the fabulous Make Another Wish Fabric Range from UK design house Lewis & Irene. Hugely popular the whole collection is available online from Empress. Learn about the designers creative thoughts, fabric quality, design range and potential uses….
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Article exploring the creative uses of Brusho Acrylic Sprays and Shimmer Sprays. Hugely popular, Brusho is a great way of easily adding colour to your creative projects. Chris guides you through some super examples and covers tips and tricks to help achieve truly fabulous results. Written by Chris Gray of Mabon Arts for Empress Mills. Read More…
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After a super response as to whether we should add Gingham Fabrics to the site we have done just that. Available in a 1/4″ Check & trendy 1″ Check there are up to 10 shades available. Ginghams seem very popular at the moment and we thought the addition of the 1″ Check range would just
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100% Combed Cotton Lawn. A finely woven high thread count fabric, cotton lawn has almost a silk like feel. Completely non stretch this fabric is ideal for summer clothing offering a cool alternative to other fabrics. Also used extensively as interlining. Creatively Cotton Lawn can be dyed, hand or machine stitched and is the ideal
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After a small delay we are pleased to now have added three new Lewis & Irene Jelly Rolls to the site. Encompassing fabrics from the hugely popular Marrakech, Town & Country and Timsbury Lane fabric ranges the designs have already been a huge hit and we are sure the Jelly Rolls will be just as
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