Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue #127 2024 i Quilters Companion

Welcome to the May/June issue of Quilters Companion! We have some awesome content in this issue that we are sure you will find inspirational and interesting, as well as some exciting images of amazing quilts. First of all – we share a sneak peek at the 2024 Block of the Month! It is designed by Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession, using her latest release fabric range, Trade Winds by Figo Fabrics. Of course, we can’t show you the entire quilt – but I’m sure you will get a sense of what’s to come. If you know Kathy’s work, you will know to expect quirky appliqués and lowcontrast prints. We share some of the winning quilts from the QuiltCon 2024 quilt show in the USA. These quilts are minimal and impactful.…

Finished size: 148.5cm x 133.5cm (58½in x 52½in) www.chrisquilts.blogspot.com @patchworkfun chris.jurd@bigpond.com Materials • 9in square each of 12 feature fabrics with large-scale printed motifs (hexagon centres)• Fat eighth each of 24 bright print fabrics (hexagon blocks)• 80cm (⅞yd) orange and green stripe print fabric (setting triangles)• Assorted large-scale print fabrics to total about 80cm (1yd) (border)• 45cm (½yd) black print fabric (binding)• 3.1m (3yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 165cm x 150cm (66in x 60in)• Freezer paper• Erasable fabric-marking pen• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in and open-toe feet• General sewing supplies Preparation and cutting 1 Trace shapes A–G from the Pattern Sheet onto the matte side of the freezer paper (including the arrows) and cut them out on the lines. 2 To use these templates, lightly…

This fun quilt features a background of various black and white print fabrics and bright-coloured fabrics for the appliqué. Hand quilting with Perle 5 thread adds a tactile feature to this quilt. Finished size: 90cm (36½in) square cooeequilting@hotmail.com terasemunnerley Cooee Quilting Materials • Assorted white on black print fabrics to total about 50cm (⅝yd)• Assorted black on white print fabrics to total about 40cm (½yd)• 40cm (½yd) each of two black and white print fabrics (ie. fabrics where neither the black or the white dominates the other)• 50cm (⅝yd) green print fabric (frames and binding)• Four or five fat quarters of assorted print fabrics (appliqué)• 1.1m (1¼yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 105cm (42in) square• Perle 5 threads in three or four different colours (hand quilting)• Fusible web• Rotary cutter,…

Finished size: 213cm (84in) square willywd200@gmail.com @legendandlace Materials • 4.6m (5⅛yd) solid white fabric• 3.3m (3¾yd) black tone-on-tone print fabric• 3.7m (4⅛yd) solid orange fabric• 2.4m (2⅝yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in) backing fabric• Batting at least 220cm (92in) square• Perle 8 thread and needle (hand quilting)• Template plastic and fine permanent-marking pen• Paper for foundations — newsprint is ideal. It is available from specialty stationery and art supply shops, sold in pads or reams. Alternatively, use paper especially made for foundation piecing, which is available from quilt shops• Fabric basting glue• Spray starch• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Note: Foundation piecing is used in this project and the instructions assume a good working knowledge of this technique. Sew all the foundationpiecing seams with a…

Best in Show What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies, 89cm x 200cm (35in x 79in), Ginny Robinson Artist’s statement: “’Gargoyle bookends’. ‘Pencils.’ ‘Erlenmeyer flasks.’ ‘Jugs of paint.’ ‘Cello cases.’ ‘Building blocks.’ ‘Nothing but my words.’ I'm a teacher who asked other American teachers what ordinary classroom objects they would use to defend their students in a school shooting. Their answers varied by grade level and the subject they teach. Shaped like a door, the quilt celebrates the good work these school supplies do each day to teach our kids about life and the world, while also acknowledging that teachers sometimes see these things in a different way. The quilting represents the shooter on the front and the teacher on the back, with the appliqué pieces aimed…

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By the thousands A quilt project in the USA aims to represent the immigrant detention experience and encourage efforts towards more humane solutions. The 45,000 Quilt Project brings together the work of contributors who were invited to submit 36insquare quilts that included 1000 marks of some kind — to represent 1000 detained immigrants. The 45 panels highlight the fact that on any given day there are 45,000 immigrants in detention across the USA — the largest such detention system in the world that punishes people who have fled violence in their home countries and seek a safer place to live. The project’s key organiser, Glen Ring, has co-authored a book with Melinda MacInnis entitled Don’t Look Away, documenting the quilts and including information about immigrant detention. The light stuff Tasmanian…

Finished size: 133.5cm (52½in) square Finished block size: 6½in square pat.forster@iinet.net.au https://patforsterblog.wordpress.com Materials • Assorted blue tone-on-tone print fabrics to total about 2.5m (2¾yd)• Assorted mottled yellow print fabrics to total about 2.7m (3yd)• 2.6m (2⅞yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 160cm (59in) square• Template plastic and fine permanent-marking pen• Rotary cutter, ruler and cutting mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Preparation and cutting 1 Trace the four shapes for this project from the Pattern Sheet onto template plastic using a fine permanent-marking pen. Cut them out on the traced lines. These templates include a ¼in seam allowance. 2 To use these templates, place them face down on the wrong side of the fabric and trace around them using a fabric-marking pen. To trace a shape in…

Finished size: 143.5cm x 133cm (56½in x 52½in) ozkiwiquilts@optusnet.com.au @ozkiwiquilts Materials • 30cm (⅜yd) each of 12 assorted print fabrics. You could use fat quarters instead — provided they have a useable length of 18in• 40cm (½yd) coordinating print fabric (binding)• 2.3m (2½yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 160cm x 150cm (63in x 60in)• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Preparation and cutting From each of the 12 assorted print fabrics, cut: • 16 squares, 4½in — 192 squares in all. From the print fabric for the binding, cut: • six strips, 2¼in x width of fabric Plus blocks 1 Organise the 192 squares of assorted print fabrics into: • 27 groups of five squares all cut from the same fabric (complete Plus…

Contemporary Patchwork: Techniques in Colour, Surface Design & Sewing Arounna Khounnoraj Dive into contemporary patchwork with fresh surface design techniques and beautiful projects from Arounna Khounnoraj, co-owner of Bookhou and wellknown textile artist. Arounna’s approach to patchwork, quilting and appliqué stands out from traditional methods, making this book an incredible resource for building a foundation in textile design and expanding into unique improvisational patchwork. Get inspired by your environment and learn elements of colour theory before jumping into several fabric surface design techniques. Then, master the art of decorating with stitches as you explore various sewing and appliqué techniques to make your patchwork projects pop. The book includes 10 beautiful and original projects that combine a variety of sewing and appliqué techniques and range from small quilts to bags and…

Welcome to our new block of the month and kits section where each issue we will bring you a diverse selection of block of the month programs and kits for purchase. These product cover a variety of styles, colours and techniques. 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…

Finished size: 146cm x 119cm (57½in x 47in) Materials • 1.2m (1¼yd) natural linen (block backgrounds)• 1.5m (1¾yd) multicoloured floral print fabric (sashings and border)• Fat eighth each of eight floral print fabrics (houses)• 45cm (½yd) red floral print fabric (binding)• 2.8m (3⅛yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 165cm x 135cm (64in x 54in)• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From the assortment of the fat eighths of floral print fabrics, cut: • 20 rectangles, 3in x 7in (A)• 40 rectangles, 2½in x 4¾in (B)• 20 rectangles, 2¾in x 4½in (C) From the natural linen, cut: • three strips, 3in x width of fabric. Cross cut them to yield 39 squares, 3in (G)• two strips, 9½in x width of fabric. Cross cut…

Finished size: 40cm x 38cm x 12cm (15¾in x 15in x 4¾in) arounna@bookhou.com www.bookhou.com @bookhou Materials • 95cm (1yd) canvas (150cm/60in wide)• Assorted fabrics scraps to total about 25cm (¼yd) (patchwork panel)• 45cm (½yd) fabric (lining)• 1.25m (1⅜yd) webbing, 25mm (1in) wide (handles)• 2.7m (3yd) of 5mm (¼in) cord (drawstring)• Water-erasable fabric marking pen• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine• General sewing supplies Note: 1cm (⅜in) seams are used throughout to assemble the bag. Cutting From the canvas, cut: • one strip, 16½in x width of fabric. Cross cut it to yield three rectangles, 15in x 16½in (E — bag back and two G — bag lining); and one rectangle, 8in x 16½in (H — drawstring panel)• one strip, 15in x width of fabric. Cross cut it to yield…

keryn@kerynemmerson.com @artisanartist www.kerynemmerson.com info@luccello.com.au @luccellomelbourne @luccello This quilt is a major undertaking, requiring accurate cutting and piecing to ensure each frame fits precisely around the edge of the quilt. Refer to the Fabric Key for the specific fabrics Keryn used in her project if you wish to create a quilt identical to hers. Seam allowances of ¼in are used throughout for the piecing. This Block of the Month project is being published over six issues of Quilters Companion, from issue #122 to this issue, #127. The materials required to make the complete quilt were included in Part 1 of the instructions, published in Quilters Companion #122. Contact our subscriptions department to order back issues, or log on to Zinio or the Apple/Google Play newsstands to get them digitally. Sawtooth border…

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