Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue #128 2024 i Quilters Companion

kathy@materialobsession.com.au @matobsgirl www.materialobsession.com.au Welcome to Part 1 of the 2024 Quilters Companion Block of the Month! Trade Winds is designed by quilt-store owner, book author, fabric designer and quilt designer Kathy Doughty. Kathy designed the Trade Winds range of fabrics to capture the vibrant energy of an exotic market square, inspired by the chintz prints of India, Middle Eastern mosaics and Asian floral motifs. You can find stockists of the BOM fabric kits on page 31. In this first part you will make the centre Feathered Star block featuring fussy cutting and intricate piecing. Proudly brought to you by Quilters Companion and Lloyd Curzon Fabrics Note: This quilt requires accurate cutting and piecing to ensure that each border fits precisely around the edge of the quilt. Materials listed on the…

fimch2@gmail.com @cherylfilby Finished size: 214.5cm (84½in) square Materials • 3.2m (3½yd) white tone-on-tone print fabric #1• 1m (1⅛yd) white tone-on-tone print fabric #2• 85cm (⅞yd) yellow print fabric #1• 70cm (¾yd) yellow print fabric #2• 70cm (¾yd) yellow print fabric #3• 85cm (⅞yd) blue print fabric #1• 70cm (¾yd) blue print fabric #2• 85cm (⅞yd) green print fabric #1• 60cm (⅝yd) green print fabric #2• 60cm (⅝yd) green print fabric #3• 2.4m (2¾yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in) backing fabric• Batting at least 240cm (92in) square• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From white tone-on-tone print fabric #1, cut: • 14 strips, 2½in x width of fabric. Cross cut them to yield 24 strips, 2½in x 20½in (sashing) and 16 strips, 2½in x 4½in (sashing)•…

pamot@netspace.net.au Finished size: 142cm (56¼in) square Materials • 4m (4½yd) solid black fabric• 80cm (1yd) orange tone-on-tone print (appliqué and outer border)• 10cm (⅛yd) dark orange tone-on-tone print fabric (appliqué)• 40cm (½yd) yellow tone-on-tone print fabric (appliqué)• 20cm (¼yd) dark yellow tone-on-tone print fabric (appliqué and outer border)• 10cm (⅛yd) green tone-on-tone print fabric (appliqué)• 50cm (⅝yd) blue print fabric (sashing)• 4.2m (4⅝yd) backing fabric• Batting about 200cm (80in) square• Fusible web• Template plastic and fine permanent-marking pen• White dressmaker’s carbon paper• Chalk pencil• Quilt basting spray• Machine embroidery tear-away stabiliser• Machine sewing threads to match or contrast with the appliqué fabrics and green (vines)• Lightbox (optional)• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in, open-toed embroidery, free-motion quilting and walking feet• General sewing supplies Preparation and cutting From…

As a practitioner in textiles, I have been instilled with the principle of respect towards all materials. In the execution of my craft, it is incumbent upon me to uphold the ethos of resourcefulness, ensuring sensible utilisation of materials while conscientiously selecting techniques, processes, and materials that are environmentally friendly. Central to my ethos is the imperative to minimise waste, ensuring that no fibre or fabric is needlessly discarded. As an educator, I find it obligatory upon myself to emphasise the importance of these principles, yet recognise that there remains a collective imperative for further action. In the contemporary context of fast fashion cycles, the incessant pace often hinders reflective examination of the profound ecological repercussions inherent in our engagement with this paradigm. The escalating volume of textile waste inundating…

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Mastering their art Four well-known Australian quiltmakers had works juried into the 2023 Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibition in Auburn, New York. This international exhibition is held annually at the Schweinfurth Art Center, which has a long history of promoting quilts as a visual arts medium. Jurors select quilts based on overall quality of design, visual impact and originality. Sixty-nine quiltmakers were represented in the 2023 exhibition, selected from more than 300 who submitted entries. The four successful Australians were Judy Hooworth, Anna Brown, Dianne Firth and Jessica Wheelahan. A different finishing touch American quiltmaker Kelly Spell typically makes bold, abstract quilts that are a celebration of colour and shape. On her website, she provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial heavily illustrated with photos on how to mount a quilt over an artist’s canvas.…

littledesertquilts@skymesh.com.au @littledesertquilts Finished size: 123cm (48½in) square Finished block size: 12in square Materials • 40cm (½yd) each of two feature print fabrics. Fleur used a taupe on cream print and a cream on taupe print• 50cm (⅝yd) light salmon print fabric #1• 65cm (¾yd) light salmon print fabric #2• 85cm (1yd) each of a dark taupe and a light taupe print fabric (block corners)• 40cm (½yd) medium-value taupe tone-on-tone print fabric (binding)• 2.2m (2⅜yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 135cm (54in) square• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From each of the two feature print fabrics, cut: • two strips, 6½in x width of fabric. Cross cut them to yield eight squares, 6½in of each fabric (block centres) From light salmon print…

3-D Illusion Quilts Simplified: Sensational Designs Using Color, Value & Geometric Shapes; 12 Projects Ruth Ann Berry Take your quilting journey to the next level! Tackle these 12 captivating projects, from wallhangings to king-size quilts, and discover how to swap out identical triangles for strips, making piecing easy. Unleash your inner quilt designer with a section on creating your own 3-D quilt, equipped with isometric graph paper for sketching your unique patterns. This book seamlessly connects the projects to design lessons, allowing your project to come to life. From tools and fabric to design and colour, this book prepares you for a quilt-making adventure like no other. Create 12 projects featuring a variety of colour schemes and designs, including stars, hearts, lattices and other continuous/repeating patterns. Bring your ideas to…

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. A Little Patch of Country ALPHABITS Alphabits by Michael Miller is a bright alphabet panel with animals featured on the letters. Matching all over and stripe fabric available. 60cm…

www.gourmetquilter.com GourmetQuilter GourmetQuilter As the design is quite large, SusanClaire suggests making up the whole background, basting with batting and backing and quilting the top before doing the appliqué. This quilt has been quilted with wiggly vertical lines. Once the quilting is done, fuse all the appliqué. The stitching around the shapes can be done through all the layers — this provides stability for free-motion stitching or your preferred method of appliqué stitching. The sample has been free-motion straight stitched close to the edge of the appliqué shapes. This means that when the appliqué is stitched, the quilt is almost finished. Finished size: 152.5cm x 132cm (60in x 52in) Materials • Assorted light-value print fabrics to total about 2.6m (2⅞yd). Light-value Jelly Roll strips are ideal• Assorted red, green and…

mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com 0422 537 080 Finished quilt size: 203cm (80in) square Finished block size: 20in square Materials • 30cm (⅜yd) each of eight tone-on-tone print fabrics (star points)• Fat quarter each of 16 print fabrics — you need two fabrics to coordinate with each of the tone-on-tone print fabrics (star centres and block corners)• 90cm (1yd) solid white fabric• 2.8m (3⅛yd) solid light grey fabric• 65cm (¾yd) multi-coloured stripe print fabric (binding)• 2.4m (2¾yd) extra-wide (275cm/108in wide) backing fabric• Batting at least 220cm (88in) square• Rotary cutter, quilter’s ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From each of the eight tone-on-tone print fabrics, cut: • one strip, 6¼in x width of fabric. Cross cut it to yield four squares, 6¼in. Cut each square twice on the…

Finished size: 189cm x 154cm (74½in x 60½in) www.chitterchatterdesigns.com cori@chitterchatterdesigns.com Materials • 1.8m (2yd) white tone-on-tone print fabric (patchwork background)• 70cm (⅞yd) orange dot print fabric (Border 3 and blocks)• 40cm (½yd) orange geometric print fabric (blocks)• Fat quarter orange tone-on-tone print fabric (appliqué in blocks)• 13cm (5in) square of solid orange fabric (puppies’ collars)• 40cm (½yd) light grey tone-on-tone print fabric (blocks)• Fat quarter dark grey tone-on-tone print fabric (puppy appliqué)• Scrap of black tone-on-tone print fabric (puppies’ noses)• 1.6m (1¾yd) solid white fabric (appliqué and Border 1)• 1.3m (1½yd) solid grey fabric (Borders 2 and 4, word appliqué and binding)• Fat eighth solid blue fabric (ball appliqué)• 3.2m (3½yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 205cm x 170cm (80in x 66in)• Stranded embroidery cottons to match your appliqué fabrics.…

@kim_diehl_quilts Finished size: 153.5cm (60½in) square Finished block size: 8in square Materials • 1.3m (1⅜yd) navy print fabric (patchwork, Borders 1 and 3 and binding)• 17 fat quarters of assorted print fabrics• 40cm (½yd) each of six assorted cream print fabrics• 3.5m (3¾yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 170cm (68in) square• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat• Sewing machine with ¼in foot• General sewing supplies Cutting From the navy print fabric, cut: • one square, 8½in (Snowball block)• four squares, 2½in (Snowball block)• 13 strips, 1½in x width of fabric (Borders 1 and 3). Put 12 of them aside; cross cut the remaining strip to yield eight rectangles, 1½in x 4½in (Border 2)• seven strips, 2½in x width of fabric (binding) From each of the 17 fat quarters of assorted print…

NSW July 12–13 Novocastrian Quilters’ 40th Anniversary Ruby Quilt Exhibition Callaghan College, Jesmond Senior Campus, Janet Street, Jesmond More information: 0481 350 121 novocastrianquilters@gmail.com July 19–21 Eastwood Patchwork Quilters’ Quilt Exhibition Roselea Community Centre 645–671 Pennant Hills Road, Beecroft More information: www.eastwoodpatchworkquilters.com August 2–4 Hunters Hill Quilters’ Show Hunters Hill Town Hall, 22 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill More information: www.huntershillquilters.org August 2–4 Camden Country Quilters’ 32nd Quilt Exhibition Gledswood Homestead & Winery, 900 Camden Valley Way, Gledswood Hills More information: secretarycamdencqg@gmail.com August 23–25 Wangi Quilters’ Club Biennial Quilt Show Wangi District Workers’ Club 11–19 Market Street, Wangi Wangi More information: wangiquilters@gmail.com September 19–22 Sydney Quilt Show Rosehill Gardens Racecourse James Ruse Drive, Rosehill More information: www.quiltnsw.com October 11–12 Bulli Corner Quilters’ Quilt Show Corner of Princes Highway and Point Street,…