Love Patchwork & Quilting

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Nothing speeds up a quilt quite like precuts. Pam and Nicky Lintott have combined their expertise to make a shiny new book with twelve patterns using the nifty jelly roll. Skip hours of cutting and get straight to the fun of sewing! davidandcharles.c

Love of Quilting

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Yuletide Stars is a great design that can also be easily transformed into a tree skirt for a small tree. After quilting the table topper, carefully cut a straight line from the outside edge at a corner between 2 blocks to the quilt center. Cut a circ

Quilters Companion

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Sadie’s Hexagons, 130cm x 150cm (50in x 60in), Lorraine Moran This quilt has been made with numerous scraps of fabrics from Lorraine’s stash. She drafted her own hexagons, and sewed the entire quilt by hand. She made it for her granddaughter Sadie’s

Australian Homespun

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Where do you live? My husband, Danie, and I live and work on our cattle farm in the northern part of rural South Africa near the small holiday town of Bela-Bela. The area where we live is typical African bushveldt and is well known worldwide among th

McCall's Quilting

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Andi quilted a free-motion swirls and stars pattern to complement her quilt design. See how the look changes if a quilt motif is repeated in a regular manner? The Scalloped Fans Quilting motif gives a very feminine, yet orderly feel to the quilt. Go

Today's Quilter

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Red and white quilts have always been a popular choice to make an impact. Find Sharon’s take on this idea on page 20. Lone Star designs are sure to impress, and this one is no different. Find Jenni’s version of it on page 34, choose some fabrics and

Ideas

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DIFFICULTY: medium TIME: 1-3 hours We all have that one pair of tired, worn-out jeans that we just cannot bring ourselves to throw out. Why not turn them into a Japanese-quilt-inspired rug? Cut the jeans into small rectangles or squares and sew the p

Love of Quilting

3 min. di lettura

FINISHED SIZE: 80"× 80" FINISHED BLOCKS: 100 (8") blocks ► 3¼ yards white batik for blocks and strip sets ► 1⅝ green batik 1 for strip sets and binding ► 3 yards green batik 2 for blocks and strip sets ► ½ yard magenta batik for blocks ► ⅝ yard gree

Quilters Companion

2 min. di lettura

Kits and block of the month programs are popular choices for quilters for a number of reasons. How many times has a quilt caught your eye and you think “Wow I would love to make that exact same quilt with the same fabrics and colours”? When you buy a

Love of Quilting

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Have you ever used your rotary cutter to make a simple block...disappear? Not literally, of course. But with a few alterations, you can create some pretty impressive transformations. Cut Courthouse Steps blocks and shuffle parts for Next Steps. Slice

Love of Quilting

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Krisanne‘s Amish-inspired design is a striking example of the Amish tradition of using solids, a dark background, and repeating blocks. Amish quilts are characterized by simple, geometric blocks. Amish quiltmakers are sophisticated in their use of co

Quilters Companion

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Dear readers, After celebrating 15 incredible years of Quilters Companion, we are delighted to announce that next issue will bring you a much-anticipated relaunch of our iconic magazine. You will still see the very best quilting projects, latest news

Quilters Companion

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Don’t miss Chris Jurd’s entrancing new medallion quilt, Fishbowl. See amazing quilts from quilt shows around the world.  Anita Ellis discusses how to choose different rulers and templates for your machine quilting style. Meet talented quilter, Felici

Today's Quilter

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Sew our glorious cover quilt featuring a variant of the Rolling Star, inspired by the late Winter bloom, the Lenten Rose. Turn to page 22. Stitched in Jennifer Sampou’s gorgeous Sky collection, this tropical Pineapple quilt will have you dreaming of

Today's Quilter

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Jenni Smith has been sewing for the last 25 years and her goal is to share her knowledge and enthusiasm, and to inspire a new generation of makers. She teaches in her Ilkley studio as well as online via her educational platform www.justonequilt.com.

Today's Quilter

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Lynne Goldsworthy from Lily’s Quilts is a modern British quilter. She has been sewing since she was a young child and, on a business trip to America, she fell in love with American quilts and tried her hand at the craft. Then life and family happened

Today's Quilter

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Lynne Goldsworthy from Lily’s Quilts is a modern British quilter. She has been sewing since she was a young child and, on a business trip to America, she fell in love with American quilts and tried her hand at the craft. Then life and family happened

Today's Quilter

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“I chose the pine tree motif to adorn a matching quilted gift sack to the Darling Dala quilt (page 17), using the cream prints from the Jelly Roll. Perfect for gifting the unwrappable or leaving out for Santa.” ■

Today's Quilter

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“The Flying Geese quilt block is simple, versatile and quick to make – no wonder it’s a block loved by so many! Flying Geese can stand alone as a single block or used as a variant in many other ways, of which there are a plethora. I like using the te

Today's Quilter

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The Sampler Quilt Book Lynne Edwards, 1996. Lynne Edwards’ New Sampler Quilt Book Lynne Edwards, 2000. The Essential Sampler Quilt Book Lynne Edwards, 2010. Each of the original Sampler Quilt titles contains instructions for 20 hand and machine tec

Love of Quilting

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Sara Gallegos, host of “Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting” on PBS, created this alternate color option, and even added a faux-piped binding. She also took a different approach to constructing the project, creating her own paper piecing templates. Chec

QUILTMAKER

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This bright and cheery notepad designed by Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet includes 75 vibrant sheets to help you keep organized and productive. Track your To Do list, appointments, water intake, fitness, and most importantly your happy thoughts! itss

McCall's Quilting

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• your photos• ideas• stories Rita Kuenne of Littleton, Colorado, loved Evergreen & Gold (McCall’s Quilting, Nov/Dec 2017) as soon as she saw it. To make it a Colorado-themed quilt, she used blue in honor of the sky and mountain lakes, gold for the

Today's Quilter

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Jenni Smith is a quilt designer and teaches in her Ilkley studio, as well as online via her education platform www.justonequilt.com. She is also an Aurifil Designer and Janome expert. Jenni learnt to quilt in Toronto 15 years ago and hasn’t stopped.

QUILTMAKER

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Twinkle Twinkle. I adapted Pam’s design into a baby quilt using a collection of soft pastels mixed with pops of red. I used a novelty print from the fabric collection for the center of the blocks and I love how the yellow stars really stand out. ■

Today's Quilter

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Nicola Dodd has been quilting since 2010 after chancing upon a quilting website and becoming hooked. Having designed all her working life – as an architect and as a garden designer – the temptation to start designing quilts was irresistible and she e

Today's Quilter

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Nicola Dodd has been quilting since 2010 after chancing upon a quilting website and becoming hooked. Having designed all her working life – as an architect and as a garden designer – the temptation to start designing quilts was irresistible and she e

Today's Quilter

1 min. di lettura

Nicola Dodd has been quilting since 2010 after chancing upon a quilting website and becoming hooked. Having designed all her working life – as an architect and as a garden designer – the temptation to start designing quilts was irresistible and she e

Love of Quilting

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Natalie Crabtree is a quilter, pattern designer, and lover of color and all things quilt! She started her creative journey in September 2014 and hasn’t looked back. She enjoys designing quilts, creating sample quilts for various fabric companies prof

Today's Quilter

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Darren Mayner is an architect living in Derbyshire who started designing quilts when his wife, Ann, opened Quiltessential, a fabric and craft supplies shop in 2005. He has made only a few quilts, some of which have won awards, but he prefers to desig