Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue #120 2023 i Quilters Companion

Simple Shapes Stunning Quilts: 100 Designs to Sew for Patchwork Perfection By Stuart Hillard In this follow-up title to the bestselling Use Scraps, Sew Blocks, Make 100 Quilts, Stuart shows how the easiest of shapes can make extraordinary quilts. The book is divided into five main pattern chapters: One Patch Quilts, Strips and Squares, Triangles, Curves and Foundation Piecing. This book teaches the basics of quilt design using a range of blocks that use the simplest shapes to build up your quilt design. Each of the 100 blocks can be used to make one of Stuart’s quilt designs. Alternatively, quilters can adapt any of the pattern blocks; they can personalise treatments, colours and arrangements, add extra borders, and more. Stuart has drawn on years of teaching experience to include the…

Finished size: 138.5cm (54½in) square Finished block size: 9in @electric_needle_girls @electricneedlegirls heatherp@electricneedlegirls.com.au Materials • Fat eighths of 43 tone-on-tone print fabrics. To mimic Heather’s quilt, you will need: six violet (red purple) fabrics, six red fabrics, six orange fabrics, seven yellow fabrics, six green fabrics, six blue fabrics and six indigo (blue purple) fabrics OR assorted scraps to total this amount• Fat quarters of nine grey tone-on-tone print fabrics OR assorted scraps to total this amount• 45cm (½yd) black and white print fabric (binding)• 3.2m (3½yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 155cm (62in) square• Spray starch or Best Press• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Preparation and cutting 1 Spray all the fabrics with spray starch, Best Press or equivalent. Allow the starch…

At the 2022 QuiltNSW Exhibition, there were various quilt exhibits, including the Sydney Quilt Show members’ exhibition and the Blue & White special category; the Ruby suitcase challenge; the premiere of the Recharge, Renew Restate fabric challenge featuring fabric by Australian indigenous designer Helena Geiger; a selection of prize-winning quilts from the 2021 online show; and the 2021 BERNINA Best of Australia quilts. With over 440 quilts on display it was a wonderful to see the diversity and creativity. To see all the winning quilts visit: www.quiltnsw.com The QuiltNSW Exhibition, including the Sydney Quilt Show, is set to return to Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney from 15–17 September 2023. BERNINA Best of Show Best Hand Made Quilt Combined Pieced & Appliqué Quilt (Professional) – First Wine and Roses, 226cm x 225cm…

karen@somersetpatchwork.com.au @karenatsomerset www.somersetpatchwork.com.au Proudly brought to you by Quilters Companion and Two Green Zebras This Block of the Month project is being published over six issues of Quilters Companion, from issue #116 to issue #121. Contact our subscriptions department to order a subscription or back issues, or log onto Zinio or the Apple/Google Play newsstands to get the issues digitally. Our fabrics This quilt uses a large variety of print fabrics from the New Canterbury range designed by Karen. They are distributed in Australia by Two Green Zebras. Variable Star blocks From Fabric A, cut: • four strips, 3½in x width of fabric. Cross cut them to yield 28 squares, 3½in (star centres) From Fabric H, cut: • six strips, 3½in x width of fabric. Cross cut them to yield…

By design stitched and bound, a juried quilt show sponsored by the West Australian Quilters’ Association, is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary quilt exhibitions. The most recent collection includes 45 works. Entrants are encouraged to work outside the quilt format and push the boundaries of the medium, focusing on making personal statements through the use of unconventional materials, ideas and techniques. Pieces to be exhibited are selected on artistic merit, innovation within the quilt medium and the standard of design and execution. After opening at the Midland Junction Arts Centre in Perth in 2021, the exhibition toured to Lake Grace, Margaret River and Katanning. It will be on display at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery from March until May this year before travelling to the Carnarvon Art Gallery in June…

Finished size: 220cm (86½in) square @cherylfilby fimchc2@gmail.com Materials • 4.7m (5¼yd) dark cream print fabric• 80cm (⅞yd) salmon print fabric #1• 70cm (¾yd) salmon print fabric #2• 20cm (¼yd) salmon print fabric #3 (appliqué)• 80cm (⅞yd) dark red print fabric #1• 70cm (¾yd) dark red print fabric #2• 60cm (¾yd) dark red print fabric #3 (appliqué)• 50cm (⅝yd) beige print fabric #1• 50cm (⅝yd) beige print fabric #2• 60cm (⅝yd) tan print fabric• 30cm (⅜yd) brown print fabric• 60cm (¾yd) pink print fabric (Border 2)• 65cm (¾yd) salmon stripe print fabric (binding)• 2.5m (2¾yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in) backing fabric• Batting at least 240cm (94in) square• Fusible web• Stranded embroidery floss in colours to match appliqué fabrics• Ziplock bags• Rotary cutter, ruler and cutting mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing…

Finished size: 210cm (84in) square Finished block size: 12in @berryquiltandco www.berryquiltandco.com.au sharon@berryquiltandco.com.au Materials • 2m (2¼yd) pale-grey print fabric (sashings)• 20cm (¼yd) each of 50 assorted print fabrics• 2.3m (2½yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in) backing fabric• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Double X blocks 1 Choose two fabrics that are interesting together. Sharon used a mix of reproduction and contemporary fabrics. From fabric #1 (the ‘background’ of the block), cut: • one square, 5¼in. Cut it on both diagonals to yield four quartersquare triangles (B)• six squares, 3in. Cut each square once on the diagonal to yield 12 halfsquare triangles (D)• four rectangles, 2½in x 4½in (E) From fabric #2, cut:• one square, 4in (A)• two squares, 4⅞in. Cut each square once on the…

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Finished size: 101.5cm (40in) square @deborahdorward Materials • 1.1m (1¼yd) light tan print fabric (background)• Fat eighths, charm squares or large scraps of assorted print fabrics (appliqué)• 10cm (⅛yd) each of eight print fabrics (star)• 15cm (¼yd) each of three print fabrics (star) – see Step 1 in Strip sets• 35cm (½yd) brown print fabric (binding)• 1.75m (2yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 115cm (46in) square• 6mm (¼in) bias tape make and 5mm fusible-web tape• Water-soluble fabric-basting glue• Template plastic and fine permanent-marking pen• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Appliqué From the light tan print fabric, cut: • one strip, 16in x width of fabric. Cross cut it to yield square, 16in. Cut this square twice on the diagonal to yield four…

This quilt was made as Chris' annual entry in to the 2022 QuiltNSW quilt show. We spied it hanging at the show and immediately asked if she would share it with Quilters Companion readers. It was professionally machine quilted by Birgit Hoffman of Black Sheep Quilting and it was entered in the Pieced Quilt — Two Person category — taking home a third place. Well done ladies and thanks for sharing the instructions with us! Finished size: 233.5cm x 184cm (91½in x 72½in) @patchworkfun Materials • Fat quarter each of 12 light grey tone-on-tone print fabrics (block backgrounds)• 6in square each of 12 novelty print fabrics featuring a printed motif (block centres)• 144 rectangles, 3½in x 5in of bright print fabrics (blocks)• 384 squares, 3in of bright print fabrics (border…

Finished size: 174cm (68½in) square @tiedwitharibbon www.tiedwitharibbon.com tiedwitharibbon@gmail.com Materials • 4.4m (4⅞yd) navy spot print fabric (background)• 25cm (¼yd) each of 10 different coloured spot print fabrics (Flying Geese)• 55cm (⅝yd) red and white print fabric (binding)• 2m (2¼yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in) backing fabric• Batting at least 195cm (77in) square• Sharp pencil• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From the navy spot print fabric, cut: • 35 strips, 2½in x width of fabric. Cross cut 28 of the strips into 448 squares, 2½in (Flying Geese). Set aside the remaining seven strips for the border• 14 strips, 4½in x width of fabric. Cross cut 56 rectangles, 4½in x 8½in (half-blocks)• two strips, 8½in x width of fabric. Cross cut eight squares, 8½in (A) From…

 @quiltachusetts www.quiltachusetts.com Finished size: 191cm x 153cm (75in x 60in) Finished block size: 9in square Materials • 1.7m (1⅞yd) solid pale sea green fabric (Limelight 102) (background)• 1m (1⅛yd) solid navy fabric (Navy 026) (block centres and binding)• 40cm (½yd) solid white fabric (Rice Paper 099) (block centres)• 20cm (¼yd) each of 10 pairs of solid fabrics in assorted colours — one light-value and one dark-value. Heather used pairs of off-white (Oyster 122/Linen 121); blue-grey (Sky 020/Cracked Ice 103); blue (River 025/French Blue 131); red (Tomato 134/Christmas Red 067); magenta (Raspberry 079/Sangria 073); yellow (Maize 007/Sulfer 060); green (Frolic 163/Wasabi 061); orange (Goldenrod 142/Bronze 059); grey (Mist 011/Ash 105); and pink (Rose 023/Petunia 120)• 3.6m (4yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 210cm x 170cm (83in x 68in)• Template plastic and…

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 kit for a quilt you see you can do just that – make it exactly in the colours and fabrics you see. Kits also take the often difficult job of select fabrics and colours out of the equation. The hard part is done for you so you can just enjoy the sewing. EASY SQUARES BAG An easy, quick to make bag which can be made in different sizes. One inside pocket and black trim. Kit includes all fabrics, wadding and button…

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