Lesley Brankin exhibits with Iris threads @ Festival of Quilts

Lesley Brankin is a freelance textile designer and can be seen below at The Festival of Quilts with her Janome Horizon. I've just snapped a photo while she was talking a customer through the features and benefits of the Horizon... and honestly, this photo wasn't set up!
Lesley was working on the Iris thread stand, a new cotton quilting thread, which can be purchased through the website below,
http://www.embroideryandquiltingsupplies.co.uk/
Lesley worked with Janome on the Horizon machine and created this wonderful Lollipop Tree Quilt for us to use on the Horizon leaflet and Horizon advertising. Details of the pattern and instructions of how to make a cushion in the same style, can be found on the Janome website, please see the link below,
http://www.janome.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116:lollipop&catid=5:whats-new&Itemid=10 or the link on the left hand side of this blog.


For more information on Lesley Brankin and her quilts, please go to her website below,
http://www.lesleybrankinquilts.co.uk/

MB4 @ Festival of Quilts 2010

This was the first Festival of Quilts the Janome MB4 had been exhibited at... and what a lot of interest it received!
The MB4 is a four needle automatic embroidery machine and is wonderful addition to any sewing workroom. Many quilters now, are experimenting with automatic embroidery, not with ready made designs, but by designing their own unique designs on Janome Digitizer MB software, and then adding free machine quilting and decorative stitches.
The Mb4 is also, an ideal embroidery machine for hobby embroiderer's, who like to work a little quicker than standard domestic embroidery machines, as the MB4 has four colours, it will trim and change colour automatically!

It's also a fabulous embroidery machine for people who are starting an embroidery business, and working from home.

Stocks Sewing Machines from Leeds were exhibiting the MB4, along with Iris embroidery and cotton quilting thread. They have a wonderful website were you can purchase all your embroidery and quilting supplies.... and of course the Janome MB4!

http://www.embroideryandquiltingsupplies.co.uk/