Quilts

Urban Quilting Wendy Chow book cover

Urban Quilting by Wendy Chou

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?

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Helping Save the Planet AND Quilt

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.

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all about vegetables | soft sculpture

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.

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all about bathrooms | soft sculpture

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.

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Creating Children's Artwork Quilts

Creating Children’s Artwork Quilts | Art Quilts Book Review

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.

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feed sack cloth by Julie Rodgers

Feed Sack Cloth | Art Quilts

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?

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Fun upcycle – from pillow to pencil!

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.

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Deeds Not Words by Sandra Sider and Pamela Weeks

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

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