Quilters Companion

Quilters Companion is the definitive patchwork and quilting magazine. Published since 2001, Quilters Companion provides readers with exciting quilting projects. These projects are accompanied by easy-to follow instructions and accompanying pattern sheets, stunning styled shots and interesting stories about the featured projects. We pride ourselves not just on being an instructional publication — we are a good read as well!

Editor’s Journal

Quilters Companion • QC No. 127 Vol.21 No.2 MAY - JUNE 2024

Quilty Treasures

Sneak Peek Quilters Companion 2024 Block of the Month — Trade Winds

The Big Hexie • Large, fussy cut hexagons are surrounded by bold prints and set in columns with neutral diamonds to create this lap-sized quilt.

Shimmer • The repeated unit in this quilt is a Drunkard’s Path block (quarter of a circle in a square) with a smaller Drunkard’s Path block nested inside it. The use of two colours results in scalloped diagonals that suggest a shimmer effect. Echo-quilting implies the shimmer is on water. Use blue fabrics with different densities of colour and yellow fabrics that range in colour from maize to lemon.

Creating a small art piece Painting the Lily – Part 2 • So, you have prepared your fabric as decribed in the previous issue of Quilters Companion, the image is ready and it is time to paint. Remember, the first piece may not be perfect — it’s a journey.

Floral Fun

Aviary Plus • This quilt is a breeze to make with simple rotary cutting and machine piecing. There’s a selection of 12 different print fabrics and the ‘plus’ blocks feature five squares of the same print. There are 14 rows of 12 squares — you could cut and make more squares for a wider and/or longer quilt.

Houses of Liberty • Cottage industry takes on a whole new meaning with this quilt. One little house of flowers developed into a streetscape of Liberty-print archi-texture. That then turned the corner into a veritable village, networked with floral roads.

Fandango • Black, white and hot orange fabrics create a striking quilt whose design inspiration was a vintage cheddar quilt. It is made from numeous arcs, all constructed in exactly the same way. For half of the arcs the first strip of fabric will be white and on the other half the first strip will be black.

A Century of Quilts

Gallery

Tote Bag • Perfect as an errand tote or project bag, this bag has a wonderful front pocket that is made up of a patchwork of various remnants pieced together in an almost random fashion. The visual variety of the pocket really stands out from the neutral canvas and shows how much quilting or patchwork can transform an ordinary item.

QuiltCon 2024 • QuiltCon 2024 included a juried quilt show featuring modern quilts made by members of The Modern Quilt Guild. The event was held late February at the Raleigh Convention Center, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, America. Following are some of the prize winning quilts. You can see them all at: www.quiltcon.com/quiltcon-2024-winners Photographs supplied by the makers

Off the Shelf • Enjoy this selection of new and recently released books on patchwork and quilting topics and techniques.

Arcadia Part 6 • Welcome to the final instalment of this gorgeous block of the month. In this issue you will make three borders; the first and the third are pieced and the second one is not. After you sew the borders on, your quilt top will be completed and you can sandwich the quilt top, batting and backing and either machine or hand quilt your masterpiece.

Arcadia

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