Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 118 i Today's Quilter

As the seasons change and the year flows past in a blur of activities, Autumn brings the chance to take a breath and enjoy what nature has to offer. Not only are the berries on the bushes ripening, but the rhythm of nature calls for the fields to be harvested. The trees turn into glorious shades of red, orange and brown, and it is not too cold or hot – bliss. So, in this issue, we celebrate my favourite time of year with the gorgeous cover quilt, ‘Autumn Harvest’, designed and made by our brilliant technical editor, Paula Hope. Using the cover gift appliqué templates, she has created this stunning quilt. You can copy hers or design your own tribute to Autumn. If you’re short of time but still want…

AUTUMN HARVEST FPP, CENTRE BLOCK AND BLACKBIRD'S DETAILS ENLARGE 200% PLEASE NOTE: FPP templates include seam allowance. Layout and blackbird's detail templates DO NOT include seam allowance. SCAN ME! Scan the QR code here, to go directly to the templates page on Gathered.how and download all templates for the projects at full size! BEE PINCUSHION BEE TEMPLATES ACTUAL SIZE PLEASE NOTE: Templates include seam allowances. DOWNLOAD THESE TEMPLATES FULL SIZE Visit our blog: www.gathered.how/todaysquilter today! BLOOMING LATTICE ACTUAL SIZE PLEASE NOTE: Template DOES NOT include seam allowances. SWEET STARLINGS TEMPLATES AND LAYOUT ENLARGE 200% PLEASE NOTE: Templates include seam allowances, the layout DOES NOT.…

Ponty Patchers Exhibition 6-7 September ● An exhibition of members’ quilts and other work. Will include raffle, sales table, trader and refreshments. Disabled access and facilities available. Admission: £3 (under 16’s free) 10.00-15.00 Abercynon Community Hall, Station Road, Abercynon, CF45 4TQ Campden Quilters 10th anniversary Exhibition 7-8 September ● Raffle tickets (sold in aid of Sue Ryder) for the chance to win a handmade quilt, local trader on site, refreshments, demonstrations, tombola, handicrafts on sale. 10.00-16.00 St James Church rooms, Chipping Campden, GL55 6JG Campdenquilters.com Carn Brea Quilters Exhibition 12-14 September ● On show will be the group’s work, as well as a tombola, sales table, trader, refreshments and raffle in aid of St Julia’s Hospice, Hayle. Admission: £2 10.00-16.00 (Thursday & Friday) 10.00-15.00 (Saturday) Four Lanes United Methodist…

QUILTING STYLES l signature quilts Reliable provenance for historic quilts is rare. Frequently they are not labelled, their stories destined to forever remain a secret. However, signature, or autograph, quilts – a UK phenomenon of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries – buck that trend. As the moniker suggests, these are quilts into which names and/or initials have been incorporated. Information about where, when and why the quilt was made might also be added, and sometimes motifs and/or inspirational messages can be found, too. Predominantly, signature quilts were made as fundraisers. The mid to late Victorian era was a time of widespread Christian belief and an age when Methodism was strong. A core value was raising money to help the poor and one way of doing this was to…

BEHIND THE QUILT PERFECTLY IMPERFECT “I have spent some time practising dyeing fabrics in my backyard. As a result, I have accumulated many colours and hues of linen, cotton and wool fabrics. My fabrics are not perfectly dyed, but I enjoy the imperfect and unexpected results of my own work. I put small pieces of fabric together using the ssamsol (flat felled seam) technique that I often use when I make jogakbo. I have a finished size in mind for the piece of fabric, but the design grows as I connect pieces together. This organic process always brings me joy. I made one tote with fabric handles and another with leather handles. There are instructions for both versions here.” – YOUNGMIN LEE Measurements ■ Medium-weight linen – 1½yds (Youngmin cut…

• Stand to attention with Lynne Goldsworthy’s Nutcracker quilt • Plus, find Christmas designs by Pam & Nicky Lintott and Nicola Dodd. Make Anne Varley’s clamshell & appliqué quilt and Lynne Edwards MBE’s final Creative Curves BOM quilt is revealed! YOUR GIFT 44-page supplement with 5 projects to use and display this festive season…

BEHIND THE QUILT STARLINGS IN FLIGHT “We have reached autumn in our seasonal cushion series, and for this instalment, I have chosen to feature the starling along with two of my favourite autumn flowers, chrysanthemums and echinacea, which add some much-needed colour to this design. In the summer months, the starling has a very glossy plumage with a metallic sheen of purple and green. However, as this is the autumn cushion (and metallic sheen is not the easiest look to capture in fabric!), I have chosen to represent them in their autumn/winter plumage of black with yellow spots. It’s during the autumn period that starlings begin their very special manoeuvres. They can be seen flying together over towns and farmlands in massive flocks known as murmurations. These coordinated aerial displays…

BEHIND THE QUILT SEWING BEES “I have gone for floral stripes for a scrap-busting make, but you could, of course, make your bee in the classic yellow and black. Get ready to stitch a few of these – your sewing pals will want one, too!” – JESSICA ENTWISTLE Measurements ■ Fabric A (blue print: head, base and bee stripes) – 8in x 8in■ Fabric B (white print: bee body) – 5in x 6in■ Felt (wings) – 7in x 5in ,■ Bondaweb or similar (fusible webbing) – 4in x 6in■ Toy stuffing■ Sand■ Erasable fabric marker■ Matching thread■ Basic sewing kit■ Templates – Bee head, bee body, bee base and bee wing Notes ■ The instructions make one (1) bee.■ Use a ¼in (5mm) seam allowance.■ Always check erasable markers on…

Connecting the blocks… The final design offered in this year-long Block of the Month project is the less complex spacer block that makes a curvy chain across the quilt between the collection of twelve (12) individual designs. You have actually only been given eleven (11) blocks to play with so far, with the option of repeating or tweaking any one (1) of them to make a second version to complete the round dozen in the collection. Way back, I offered an alternative version of the second block in the series to fill this slot, but you may well have found a favourite along the way that you want to repeat in your quilt. You may call that individual creativity – I call it disobedience… sigh… Anyway, back to the spacer…