Pattern & Palette Play – Sports Fabrics
Score points for your crafting with medal-worthy sports fabrics. Kick goals, swim laps, pedal push and be first over the finishing line with these no-sweat, ultra-energetic designs. Distributed by Millhouse Collections, Craft Project, PK Fabrics and others! Compiled by Janai Velez Sports Fabrics: Left to right: 1. Riley Blake Designs ‘Play Ball 2’ Main C5130-BLUE, […]
Cool Tools on the Patchwork and Quilting Market – Glues, Cutterz and Caddies
This page is devoted to bringing you all the trusted old favourites and new tools on the patchwork and quilting market. Roxanne Glue-Baste-It This is not a new tool, but a new and improved applicator. Designed by Pauline Rogers, the two-way applicator features a nozzle on one end for small glue dots and a wider […]
Quilting Advice from Deborah Louie: Hook Feathers
By Deborah Louie If you have been free-motion quilting, you have probably thought about including feathers in your quilting repertoire. Feather quilting is the most elegant and impressive of all the free-motion designs in my opinion. It suits formal, modern, contemporary and traditional quilts equally. I will be showing you the most popular styles and […]
Celebrate Australia Day With These Cosy PROJECT Patterns!
Coming straight off the back of Christmas and New Years, it’s hard to even think about the next big holiday – Australia Day! But instead of the mad rush to organise a last-minute family barbecue, why not do something creative this year? Take advantage of the crafter in you and celebrate January 26 with these Aussie patterns from Cosy […]
Stories in the Seams – The Hannah Wallis Quilt
The DAR Museum is a part of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s headquarters in Washington, DC, just a few blocks from the White House. by Alden O’Brien The DAR was founded in 1890 by a group of women who, excluded from membership in the newly formed Sons of the American Revolution, formed […]
USA and Canada Quilting Tours Bookings Now Open
Travelrite’s international quilting tours are back again with two massive trips lined up in Canada and the US in 2018. Guided by familiar faces Michelle Marvig and Chris Jurd, these tours are sure to be a hit. Shop to your heart’s delight at a number of overseas crafting stores while visiting local museums and art […]
Pattern & Palette Play – Ocean Fabrics
We’re taking inspiration from the ocean floor – a flourishing aquatic flower garden alive with colourful coral, shells and starfish and flamboyant fish. Compiled by Janai Velez Left to right: 1. Windham Fabrics ‘Coral Reef’ 42666-1, designed by Whistler Studios. Distributed by Leutenegger. 2. Liberty Art Fabrics ‘Castaway’ Coral Camo B (137cm wide). Distributed and […]
Selvedge – Leni Levenson Wiener
“I consider what I do journalistic in nature. I think of myself as a storyteller in fabric,” says Leni Levenson Wiener. by Janai Velez Leni Levenson Wiener is a “people watcher” and has always been drawn to observing and immortalising everyday moments – people hunched over mobile phones or absorbed in their book, intimate glances […]
