Are you a keen quilter? Or maybe this is a new technique for you to master. Either way, Urban Quilting by Wendy Chow professes to be the guide you require to learn all about this craft method. Featuring many patterns, step-by-step instructions and photographs, what will you make first?
In Color, thread and free-motion quilting by Teri Lucas you will learn how colour, thread, and motif come together to create the quilt of your dreams! Machine quilters can get free-motion tips to boost your confidence. Make your thread a design element.
This issue of Quilty Pleasures focuses on all things spring when related to quilts.
I don’t know about you but I am always, in big or little ways, thinking about how much of a footprint I make on the earth and how I can change that. This quilty pleasures column looks at how we can be more sustainable within our quilting arts.
This month, I am pleased to bring you some truly wonderful vegetables sculptures that I have recently discovered. Hope you will like them! Scroll down to see different perspectives on that topic and discover amazing artists.
Here we have a review of Jennifer Chiaverini’s work Harriet’s Journey from Elm Creek Quilts. This book provides patterns for 100 6 inch quilt blocks inspired by one of the author’s novels.
Our columnist Alicja Kozlowska talks us through how textiles and bathrooms can come together! ‘This month I’m bringing you some bathroom accessories. I think that bathroom gadgets are very underrated and often forgotten by artists.’. Check it out in this issue of stitching it real.
Julie explores a book for us this time in Quilty Pleasures….Ready for a super fun book review? I was sent this quilt book and think it is just wonderful! It is all about making quilts, as well as other things, from a child’s artwork. It is not a book about how to make a quilt but rather how to take a child’s artwork and turn it into something utilizing fabric. The book is Creating Children’s Artwork Quilts by Shannon Gingrich Shirley.
In this column on all our quilty pleasures, written by Julie Rodgers, we learn all about Feed Sack Cloth. We loved the patterns and pure hope within this column using this sturdy fabric. Will you have a go making your own quilt art with this feed sack material?
Jo Burgess explains in her column Craft Rocks how we can make a really personal gift for a friend in the form of recycling, using a pillow case in a quilting project. The technique of paper piecing is explored in order to create this great quilting art gift.
Julie Rodgers looks ahead to the coming year and what 2021 will hold for the world of quilts, including colour trends, new designs and more!
What an unusual book! Authors Weeks and Sider take on the subject of the women’s suffrage and turn it to a textile angle. This book focuses on art quilts and their messages. Twenty-nine artists were chosen to present their quilts, providing a rich variety in style and form. Imagery documents each artist and quilt, sometimes filling a page. This is a celebration of women and their rights, which an acknowledgement at times to men who have been in support of its message. It is published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd
