Save the Planet from Plastic Bottles with Extra Wide Fabric

Saving the Planet from Plastic Bottles

At Quilt Sandwich we are proud to announce that we have teamed up with a wonderful group of fabric scientists in Java, Indonesia to manufacture the worlds first Extra Wide Fabric for Quilt Backs made entirely from Recycled Plastic Bottles.

Our Fabric Scientists in Java (Fabricists as they prefer to be known) have sourced millions of Plastic Bottles from mountains in Maldives.  Although the Maldives is one of the lowest lying countries in the world they had a mountain the size of Snowdon made entirely of discarded Plastic Bottles.

Indeed when it rained it was so large that people were even able to surf on it!

The wonderful thing with this product is that it is 100% made from recycled material, it is ideal for your quilt backs. Following the developments by our Fabricists it is now as soft as 100% cotton and is wonderful for either Longarm Machining, Hand Sewing or domestic machining.

An additional benefit to this product is that it is 100% waterproof and so your quilt will never get wet and any quilt shows in the UK can be safely ran in even the worst British Summer conditions.  This has been extensively tested in back gardens throughout the land already with massive success.

We are pleased to announce that following the extensive manufacturing we now have a sample shipment of 50,000m of product in a container UK bound.

As this product is 100% recycled we have priced it extremely competitively.  At QuiltSandwich we want to save the Planet one Bolt of Extra Wide Fabric at a time and so we are offering this product at cost. 

Although the development of the product has taken six years and 4,000,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah to come to this point we are happy to pass this development on at only £8.00 per metre for the Extra wide Fabric at 108" wide!

Should you wish to place an advance order please contact us by email at Quilt@royalhotelbrid.co.uk

The fabric will be available soon in the online shop - click here

Charity Quiltathon 2016

This week Quilt Sandwich held our second Charity Quiltathon at The Royal Bridlington.

This year our charities are -

Yorkshire Air Ambulance
The Childrens Hospital, Sheffield
East Riding Domestic Violence Accommodation Project.

Quilters from all over the UK donated fabrics, scraps, orphan blocks, ufos, quilt tops etc and then volunteers came along a sewed in return for a free lunch & refreshments provided with compliments by The Royal Bridlington.

So far we have also received very generous donations from Bridlington Sewing Centre, Winbourne Fabrics (Moda), Pelenna Patchwork, Janome.

Lorraine from Wakefield who came to help us sew, very kindly asked for unwanted presents suitable for raffle/tombolla prizes at her work, Peter Duffy Ltd and she came laden with a huge bag full of goodies and a giant teddy - who we called George. Thank you so much to all her colleagues who kindly donated.

So if you fancy giving George a home, make sure you come along to our Quilt Show in March & purchase some raffle tickets.


Here are just a few of the quilt tops we managed to make.

We also started to make two very special quilts - one for Yorkshire Air Ambulance & one of The Childrens Hospital. These quilts will be raffled on line with all proceeds going to these charities.

Here is Scrappy Happy Stars which is for The Air Ambulance. This quilt took over  50 hours to complete.

For the Childrens hospital we asked our volunteers to make a house block each and Jackie very kindly put them together into this beautiful quilt top.

Please please purchase a ticket - its just a minimum £2 donation.

here are the links -

https://www.justgiving.com/quiltsandwich-YAA
https://www.justgiving.com/QuiltSandwich/


Our Charity Quilt Show will be held on Friday 11th & Saturday 12th March at The Royal Bridlington, Shaftesbury Road, Bridlington. YO15 3NP between 11 and & 4pm. Admission is £4 and includes a cup of tea or coffee. Please come along and support these superb charities.

Charity Quiltathon

I have some fantastic news.......................

As I have mentioned before, we are holding a Charity Quiltathon here in January and our volunteer quilters are going to be making quilts etc to help five different charities - Yorkshire Cancer Research, Yorkshire Air Ambulance, The Dogs Trust, Bridlington RNLI and Project Linus.

Look what has arrived for our Charity Quiltathon

Not one, but two whole rolls of wadding which has been very kindly donated by

John (and Barbara) Hall from Bridlington, Sewing Centre.  

Thank you both so much, it very kind of you to support our event so generously.

Bridlington Sewing Centre is located

1 Queen St Bridlington, North Humberside YO15 2SF
Telephone  01262 603057

John is a whizz with machines, so if you need your machine serviced you can book it in for a service whilst you are here, or even buy a new Janome!

They also have a selection of material, jelly rolls & most other bits and bats sewers require and all at a reasonable price and with great friendly and efficient service too. 

A rare treat during main season - a short walk out

Its such a nice day today, and the staff finished fairly early, so we decided to have a walk out and about.

Bridlington Harbour

Beach Huts on the Fabulous South Beach

South Beach Prom

and the donkeys were out

and we just had to stop for an ice cream at Richies!