Table of contents for Issue 52 in Love Patchwork & Quilting

How many quilt projects do you have on the go right now? I'm a sucker for getting swept up in the excitement of a new design – the thrill of picking out fabrics and the novelty of cutting out a brand new block are irresistible. Even with the best of intentions an awful lot of my work ends up neatly folded and bagged, tucked away out of sight under my sewing table. I know that one day I'll revisit those WIPs, as the thing that keeps me going back to my machine is the variety that my many projects offer! I'd love to say that I'll focus on finishing some quilts up, but the truth is that I've already got my eye on the next fabric pull… Join us online……

STITCH IT Hand-sewn details are the perfect way of adding a unique finishing touch to your quilty projects, but we often find ourselves using the same few stitches over and over again. Enter Natalie Chanin and her new take on embroidery. The Geometry of Hand-Sewing breaks stitches down into geometric grids and patterns, showing you how to tackle even the most complex of designs with her simple method. Broaden your stitching repertoire and find it at amazon.com SPELL IT OUT Lori Holt is back with her fourth book! Spelling Bee contains full instructions for a whopping 100 letter, number, punctuation and picture blocks, all in Lori's cute and colourful signature style. Use the 18 projects inside to stitch them into wordy designs, or get creative and make your own quilty…

BY USING SOME ORANGE AND BLUE TONES THE PALETTE BECOMES EASIER ON THE EYE It's getting cool outside, which means putting on another layer, shelving the twirly summer dresses and saying goodbye to summer blooms. But it’s not all bad – now you’ve got the perfect excuse to sit on the couch with a warm drink under your new favourite quilt. Let’s pick out some colour combos to use in it! Cuddle Season Let's jump right into cuddle season and warm up with a punchy orange and blue palette. We remember how blue and orange are complements on the colour wheel, with blue being the cool colour and orange being the warm colour. By adding in the orange we bring warmth to the cool, stark blue. Using complementary colours together…

USE YOUR LEFTOVER PRINTS TO PIECE YOUR BINDING FOR A TOTAL WOW-FACTOR FINISH! QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Pink fabric: ½yd • Yellow fabric: 5/ 8 yd • Background fabric: 2½yds • Batting: 60in square • Backing fabric: 3½yds • Binding: ½yd FINISHED SIZE • 52in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • HST = Half-square Triangle. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. FABRICS USED • Print fabrics are Dress Up Party Pink and Party Lights Yellow from the Jubilee collection by Melody Miller for Cotton+Steel. • Background fabric is Bone from the Add It Up collection by Cotton+Steel. CUTTING OUT 1 From the pink fabric six (6) 7½in squares. 2 From…

STAYING TRUE TO MYSELF HAS LED TO SO MANY INCREDIBLE AND REWARDING OPPORTUNITIES When did you learn to sew? I’ve been sewing for as long as I can remember! My mother was an accomplished seamstress and made a lot of her own clothes, as well as clothes for us four kids. I had a toy sewing machine at a very young age, but I remember that it was always jammed. At some point, I made it clear that I needed a real machine so, under her supervision, my mother let me use hers. I made doll clothes, softies and all kinds of tiny things for the dollhouse that my grandfather built for me. In high school, I made a lot of clothes for myself – including a double-breasted suit out…

YOU CAN BE AS CREATIVE AS YOU LIKE WITH YOUR SCALLOP DESIGN. ADD PIECES UNTIL YOU'RE HAPPY! BUNTING YOU WILL NEED • Bunting fabrics: eight (8) 4in x 6in rectangles • Accent fabrics: assorted scraps • Backing fabric: one (1) fat quarter • Binding fabric: 14in square FINISHED SIZE • 56in length NOTES • If you are using pre-made binding, you will need approximately 1½yds of ½in double-fold bias tape. • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • RST = right sides together. FABRICS USED • Little Stripe in black from the All Cottons collection by Michael Miller Fabrics. • Starry from the Print Shop collection by Alexia Abegg for Cotton+Steel. • Navy from the Polka Dot collection by Dear Stella. •…

GET CREATIVE WITH THIS PATTERN! HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FLOWER APPLIQUÉ ARRANGEMENTS YOU WILL NEED • Print scraps for appliqué • Background fabric (white): 9½in square • Inner Border fabric (coral): 3in x 42in • Outer Border fabric (aqua): 6in x 42in • Corner fabric (green): 3in x 11in • Cushion back fabric: 17½in square • Batting: 20in square item no 243284 • Fusible webbing: ½ metre Hemline Fusible Webbing item no 271504 • Cream thread • Cushion pad: 18in square • AccuQuilt GO! Baby (item no 360199, £129.99) FINISHED SIZE • 17in square DIES USED • Tumbler (included with AccuQuilt GO! Baby) • Flower (included with AccuQuilt GO! Baby) • Owl item no 360098 • Strip Cutter item no 360190 1 Take the appliqué scraps and fuse the fusible…

FOUNDATION PAPER PIECING Learn the technique to piece each row Foundation Paper Piecing designs are constructed from several smaller pieces to build a bigger design. Those smaller pieces are labelled with numbers, which you sew together in numerical order. When you are sewing, you will sew along the printed lines – the FPP template will face you right side up and the fabric that you will sew onto it will be right side down, with its wrong side against the back of the template. The finished sewn block will be a reverse image of the template. In this technique focus, we are going to use the Heart block from Row 1 as an example, but the steps will be the same for any FPP template. CUTTING OUT 1 Before you…

Dresden Plates are pieced circles made up of a number of blades (or wedges). With your templates (ready to download and print from the LP&Q website) you will be able to make a twelve-blade Dresden mini quilt – like the one pictured overleaf. With the help of our online tutorial, you can use these templates to make a whole range of different Dresden Plate designs by varying the size or by using either a pointed or a straight blade. And once you’ve got the hang of the basic techniques, you can add in your own details – the possibilities really are endless! Sarah has mixed up modern prints and solids to give this classic quilting combo a fresh new look, but you can get creative with your own fabric choices.…

FOREST TALK Cathy Nordstrom heads into the woods in her latest collection with a fresh take on her floral design aesthetic. Pretty surface-design flower prints sit alongside repeating woodland creature patterns, all on an autumnal colour palette of reds, blues and purples. andoverfabrics.com MAGIC FOREST Sarah Watts is back with a new collection that gives woodland wildlife a fun makeover! Neon colour pops brighten up pretty florals and swimming fish, while unicorns appear next to cheeky fox faces.cottonandsteelfabrics.com…

MATCH YOUR SOLID FABRIC TO A SHADE IN YOUR PRINT PICK FOR A COORDINATED FINISH QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Print fabric: 1½yds • Solid fabric: 5/ 8 yd • Background fabric: 2yds • Backing fabric: 4yds • Batting: 66in square • Binding fabric: ½yd FINISHED SIZE • 60in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. • If you're using print fabric with a directional print, be careful with its orientation when cutting out and piecing. FABRICS USED • Print fabric is Tapestry Rose from the Les Fleurs collection by Rifle Paper Co. for Cotton+Steel. • Solid fabrics are from the Kona…

TRY SWAPPING THESE TEXTURED PRINTS WITH SIMPLE SOLIDS FOR A MORE GRAPHIC QUILT FINISH QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Black prints: 4yds • Aqua prints: 3yds • Pink prints: 1yd • Backing fabric: 4yds • Batting: 68in square • Binding fabric: ½yd FINISHED SIZE • 64in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • HST = Half-square Triangle. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. • Fabrics provided by FreeSpirit Fabrics (freespiritfabrics.com) FABRICS USED Print fabrics are from the Loominous 2 collection by Anna Maria Horner for FreeSpirit Fabrics. CUTTING OUT 1 From the black prints cut: • Four (4) 8½in x WOF strips. Subcut into sixteen (16)…

MIX AND MATCH TWO DIFFERENT COLOURS OF THE SAME PRINT TO ADD INTEREST TO THE QUILT TOP QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Fabric A (low volume): 1yd • Fabric B (orange): ½yd • Fabric C (grey): ½yd • Background fabric: 3yds • Backing fabric: 3½yds • Batting: 60in square • Binding fabric: ½yd • One (1) each of the Block 7 and Block 9 FPP Templates • Four (4) copies of the Block 8 FPP Template FINISHED SIZE • 54in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • FG = Flying Geese. • FPP = Foundation Paper Piecing. • HST = Half-square Triangle. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong…

WE LOVE THIS ORANGE AND GREY COLOUR COMBO, BUT YOU CAN USE YOUR FAVE SHADE DUO! QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Print fabric (orange): 2yds • Background fabric: 4¼yds • Backing fabric: 5yds • Batting: 72in x 88in • Binding fabric: 5/ 8 yds FINISHED SIZE • 64in x 80in approx NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • FG = Flying Geese. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. FABRICS USED • Print fabric is Survey in Ochre from the Bound collection by April Rhodes for Art Gallery Fabrics. • Background fabric is Shale from the Kona Cotton Solids collection by Robert Kaufman. • Backing fabric is Free Fall…

DOWNLOAD YOUR TEMPLATES Visit our blog: lovepatchwork andquilting.com now! Thank you for making this project from Love Patchwork & Quilting. The copyright for these templates belongs to the designer of the project. They work hard to create projects for you to enjoy, so please don’t re-sell or distribute their work without permission. Please do not make any part of the templates or instructions available to others through your website or a third party website, or copy it multiple times without our permission. Copyright law protects creative work and unauthorised copying is illegal. We appreciate your help.…

When I was in high school, I declared to my English teacher that I would write a book. I was brazen and cocky and thought I knew it all. My teacher shot down my declaration, and when I left school and went out into the real world, I put all book-writing ambitions on the backburner. I didn’t really think about that declaration again until I found my passion in life – the desire to write suddenly came flooding back. I’d fallen in love with fussy-cutting and I couldn’t understand why more people weren’t using this technique to have fun and to spice up their work. I wanted to share it and inspire people to give it a go, and that’s when it became obvious – I needed to write a…

AUTUMN VIBES We've had a bit of a washout summer here at LP&Q, so we're looking forward to some crisp, sunny September mornings! Lewis & Irene's new collections are definitely helping us to get in the mood with their autumnal prints and colours. We love the Hedgerow collection used in this quilt – the deep blues and purples mixed with colour pop mustards and corals are just what we want to snuggle up in this winter. See all the collections and a lookbook at lewisandirene.com FRESH FLORALS Hands up if you've spied this print on Instagram already? Everyone is crushing on Annabel Wrigley's new Daisy Chain collection – us included! Inspired by all the things that Annabel loves, the collection puts a modern take on vintage florals and traditional shapes,…

CLEVER CUTTING MAKES THESE STRIP-PIECED TRIANGLES A TOTAL DODDLE TO SEW! QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Fabrics A, D, H, J, L and N: 3/ 8 yd each • Fabric B: ½yd • Fabrics C, F, I, K, M, O, P and Q: ¼yd each • Fabric E: 5/ 8 yd • Fabrics G and T: 7/ 8 yd each • Fabrics R and S: 1¾yd • Backing fabric: 4½yd • Batting: 70in x 80in FINISHED SIZE • 64in x 75in NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. FABRICS USED Fabrics are all from collections for Art Gallery Fabrics: • Fabrics A–N and…

MOVE OVER UNICORNS – WE THINK THAT NARWHALS WILL BE THE NEXT ANIMAL TREND! CUSHION YOU WILL NEED • Rainbow print scraps: eight (8) 2½in x 4in rectangles, plus scraps for FPP sections • Background fabric (grey): ½yd • Backing fabric ½yd • Batting: 18in square • Embroidery thread (black and peach) • One (1) copy each of FPP templates A–H FINISHED SIZE • 16in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams to the side, unless otherwise instructed. • RST = right sides together. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. • FPP templates include the outer seam allowance only. For templates, see p83. FABRICS USED The background fabric is Flax from the Essex Yarn Dyed collection by Robert…

WE LOVE FELICE'S FELINE FABRIC COLLECTION! THESE BLOCKS ARE IDEAL FOR SHOWING OFF PRINTS QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Fabric A (neutral): ½yd • Fabric B (purple): ½yd • Fabric C (pink): ½yd • Fabric D (yellow): ½yd • Fabric E (orange): ½yd • Background fabric: 2yds • Backing fabric: 4yds • Batting: 68in x 66in • Binding fabric: ½yd FINISHED SIZE • 60in x 58in NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • WOF = width of fabric. • WST = wrong sides together. FABRICS USED Print fabrics are from the Caturday collection by Felice Regina for Windham Fabrics. CUTTING OUT 1 From each of Fabrics A–E, cut: • Two (2) 2½in x WOF strips. Subcut into six (6)…

WE JUST LOVE THESE MATCHING NECKERCHIEFS – PERFECT FOR SCRAPS OF YOUR FAVE PRINTS MINI QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Background fabric (neutral): ¾yd • Dog body fabric (brown): 18in x 14in • Dog ear fabric (brown): 6in x 8in • Scrap fabrics (brown): 18in x 14in total • Neckerchief fabric: 4in square each of two (2) different prints • Backing fabric: 19in square • Batting: 19in square • Binding fabric: 1/ 8 yd • Two (2) copies each of Templates A–J FINISHED SIZE • 17½in square NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed. • Where a cutting instruction indicates to cut the reverse of a template, flip the template over on the fabric before cutting. • RST = right…

GATHER ‘N’ SEW Leanne’s sewing venture in Bourne, Lincolnshire! A place for friends, fabrics and inspiration. Fabrics, haberdashery, sewing classes. gathernsew.co.uk BACKSTITCH A honeypot for crafters seeking stylish quilt and dressmaking fabric and quality haberdashery. Visit us in Cambridge. backstitch.co.uk JUBERRY FABRICS Juberry of Newbury. High-quality fabrics and designs from an out of town store with free parking. juberry.co.uk CALICO KATE Award winning shop: Twelve rooms to explore! 36 High Street, Lampeter, SA48 7BB. 01570 422866 calicokate.co.uk SEW HOT Sew Hot provides over 3,800 bolts of fabric, including Lewis & Irene and other top designers, for the discerning sewist and crafter. sewhot.co.uk THE PEACOCK AND THE TORTOISE The Peacock and the Tortoise is one of Scotland’s top quilting destinations. 29 George Street, Perth, PH1 5LA. thepeacockandthetortoise.co.uk ROOFTOP FABRICS Gorgeous plush…

WHY NOT WHIP UP A FEW EXTRA BLOCKS AND COMBINE THEM INTO A MATCHING CUSHION? MINI QUILT YOU WILL NEED • Peach fabric (includes binding): ½yd • Mango fabric: one (1) fat quarter • Neutral fabric: ½yd • Backing fabric: 15in x 25in • Batting: 15in x 25in • Four (4) copies each of FPP Templates A and B. FINISHED SIZE • 10in x 20in NOTES • Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. • Shorten your stitch length to 1.5 for Foundation Paper Piecing. • FPP = Foundation Paper Piecing. • WOF = width of fabric. • Templates include seam allowance around the outer edges only. For templates, see p83. FABRICS USED Solid fabrics are Peach and Mango from the Essex Linen collection and Flax from the Yarn Dyed…