Issue #101 - 2020

Quilters Companion

Excellence in patchwork and quilting

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Editor’s Journal
Welcome to 2020. Another year has passed and we have a clean slate for the next 12 months of sewing and creating. Those who love Liberty prints and hand sewing will love Melinda Storey’s Liberty Flowering Snowballs; lovers of 1930s fabric and hexagon
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Liberty Flowering Snowballs
Pairing classic Liberty print fabrics with the traditional Flowering Snowball block has produced a gorgeous quilt. The scrappy fabrics are a restricted palette, pulled from Melinda’s stash, with grey-toned graphic fabrics as the background and shot c
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Latte By The Sea
This design came to Jenny as she sat watching the flickering light on the sea as she drank coffee. The effect is one that is recurring in Jenny’s work, where the play of light and dark creates a very real vibration. The body of the quilt is created b
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Quilty Treasures
Patterns will generally suggest that you trace the template sheet onto paper. Paper templates are not very sturdy. If you want to use your templates over and over, you can consider tracing the templates onto template plastic and cutting them out. If
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Betty Joy
Dig into your collection of reproduction 1930s fabrics to create this delightful quilt made in honour of Jenny’s sister who passed away recently. Each 15in block features seven hexagon flowers made with ¾in hexies. Nine patches intersect the sashings
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Rachael Porter
A “self-confessed fabric addict”, Rachael Porter is a NSW-based quilt designer and tutor who is becoming widely known for her exquisite English paper piecing. Essentially self-taught following a structured introduction, Rachael has developed her skil
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Sisters' Choice
This sampler-style quilt consists of only one block: Sisters' Choice. However, due to different dark- and medium-value fabric placements, they appear quite dissimilar to each other. Some blocks feature seven different fabrics, some have five or six a
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Off the Shelf
By Catherine Dreiss This handy little manual is for quiltmakers who aren’t interested in the arithmetic of patchwork. It provides a step-by-step illustrated guide to a variety of methods for making units commonly found in patchwork – such as Flying G
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Hand Sewing NEEDLES
There are a large variety of needle types, and quilters tend to use mostly straws, milliners, sharps and betweens. It is widely agreed that the best needles for hand sewing and quilting are between needles and sharps are best for appliqué. The larger
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Quilting Tools
These are a few of my favourite things … or in other words, quilting tools I use every day and wouldn’t be without. There are myriad gadgets and must-haves that the manufacturers of quilting notions insist you cannot do without. You could really spen
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Block Masterclass
This block is also known as Solomon’s Puzzle, Oregon Trail, Endless Trail, World’s Wonder and many others (Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman). The block is classified to be a four patch, and four of the four-patch units are jo
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Dubai Old Souk
This rich and evocative quilt was designed from a photograph that Jenny took in a lantern shop in the old markets of Dubai. The effect of the gold metallic print fabric of each lantern is enhanced with trapunto. Just before sandwiching the quilt top
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Pineapple Challenge
Six by six rows of 6in Pineapple blocks make up the centre of this vibrant quilt, which is surrounded by black spot fabric and Flying Geese corners. The blocks and Flying Geese are made using the foundation paper piecing method. Robyn suggests that y
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Miss Porter’s Dilly Bag
Follow Rachael's specific instructions for fussy cutting the shapes required to make this sweet dilly bag. Assembled with her favourite stitching method, English paper piecing, accuracy can be achieved. Turn to pages 58-65 to read Rachael's quiltmaki
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The Magik Pressing Mat By Pam Damour
www.pieceville.com.au @michellemarvig But, what it the Magik Pressing Mat? It is a 12in x 18in pad of ½in thick 100% felted wool made in America. It is a portable ironing pad. The advantage of this ironing pad over other types of ironing pads on the
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Ming Dynasty Bed Runner
Featuring the Summer Palace fabric collection by Leesa Chandler, this bed runner is the perfect solution for ‘too many quilts’. They roll up nice and neat to sit in the cupboard or under the bed when not in use, and you can make lots of cushion cover
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USA
The first town you visit on the 2020 Quilters Companion USA Quilting Tour is Lincoln, Nebraska. Here you will visit The Cosmic Cow Quilt Store which was opened in 2003, and which has 5000 bolts of quality quilting fabric and quilting supplies includi

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