Pattern & Palette Play – Butterfly Fabrics
We’re all in a flutter this month! Spread your wings and create beautiful, patchwork butterfly gardens with these stunning butterfly fabrics from Millhouse Collections, Craft Project and others! Compiled by Janai Velez Butterfly Fabrics: Art Gallery Fabrics ‘Winged’ Wingspan Melon WNG-1020, designed by Bonnie Christine. Distributed by Craft Project – Charles Parsons. Windham Fabrics ‘Painted […]
Welcome to Margeaux Davis’s Workroom
MARGEAUX DAVIS’S ideas run wild on a lush property in regional NSW. Margeaux Davis invites us to explore her magical surroundings and treasure-trove workroom, where her fabric dolls and animals are ‘born’. By Janai Velez Nestled between rolling green hills, cow paddocks and macadamia farms is Margeaux Davis’s creative sanctuary – a 100-year-old house, which […]
Knitting BIG with designer Jacqueline Fink
“While I was asleep, a big, loud, booming voice said to me, ‘you have to knit and it needs to be big’. The command was as terrifying as it was profound and it woke me from my sleep. But I had asked for guidance from the universe for so long that I didn’t dare question my vision. There was no […]
The Fabric Trail … Inner Journeys
An exhibition by SAlt — South Australian living textiles By Julie Haddrick The artists’ unique and highly personal responses to the five themes of “inner journeys” — the physical, emotional, spiritual, creative and the journey of discovery — mirror the diversity of interpretations and responses found in us all. Consider the power of a physical […]
My First Quilt – Part 3
Full of unsure stitching and unpicked seams, first quilts are often far from perfect. But they are full of character – and full of memories. Celebs of the quilting world take their earliest quilting attempts out of the attic to reveal their wonders and flaws and to reminisce a little about the whole ‘getting started’ […]
Cool Tools on the Patchwork and Quilting Market – Stickits and Seam Rollers
This page is devoted to bringing you all the trusted old favourites and new tools on the patchwork and quilting market. Stickits Fussy cutting and using templates is very popular at present. However, holding small templates in place to cut around them can be hard. Stickits are double-sided adhesive dots in three sizes that can […]
Road Test: Aster and Anne Felt Bag Kit
Driven by Michelle Marvig The art of quilting definitely goes through stages, or fashionable fads, when it comes to colours and styles. However, if you are looking to try some fashionable stitching for a non-quilt project, you might like to try making a handbag. While some of us come from a dressmaking background, and curves, […]
My First Quilt – Part 2
Full of unsure stitching and unpicked seams, first quilts are often far from perfect. But they are full of character – and full of memories. Celebs of the quilting world take their earliest quilting attempts out of the attic to reveal their wonders and flaws and to reminisce a little about the whole ‘getting started’ […]
