Thanksgiving Thyme with Therese Hylton
Instead of showing gratitude to a year of harvest, why not celebrate a year well-stitched with some holiday quilting this Thanksgiving? As our friends from the Northern Hemisphere prepare their tables with turkey, pumpkins and pecan pies, Australians too can join in this season by sewing these icons in sumptuous reds and oranges as seen in […]
Meet multi-talented designer Mary Koval
Mary Koval, quilt collector; dealer; fabric designer and lover of textiles chats with Michelle Marvig I am extremely lucky to visit Houston every year with the Travelrite / Quilters Companion tour. My first stop on Preview Night is always the many antique quilt stalls that are scattered among the other retail stands on the show […]
Cool Tools on the Patchwork and Quilting Market
This page is devoted to bringing you all the trusted old favourites and cool tools on the patchwork and quilting market. Melba Trivets Keep your sewing and kitchen table looking good with this cool tool – Melba Trivets by Leesa Chandler. Featuring Leesa’s signature Australian floral repeat design, these trivets are pretty and functional, with a […]
In the studio with Naomi Hynes
In the studio with Naomi Hynes by Erica Spinks Within her purpose-built studio in a suburb of Melbourne, Naomi Hynes not only makes unique quilts but also designs and markets her original digital quilting patterns and provides professional quilting services to customers Photography by Ned Meldrum Naomi Hynes’s large studio faces north, so the natural […]
How did they do it? ‘Leafy’ Sea Dragon by Lois Parish Evans
‘Leafy’ Sea Dragon by Lois Parish Evans Size: 126cm x 102cm (491/2in x 40in) How did you come up with the idea for this quilt? Several years ago, while on a family holiday to Tasmania, we visited Seahorse World in northern Tasmania and Lois Parish Evans fell in love with seahorses and sea dragons. Since […]
Designer Edge – Meet Heather Everitt
After a visit to an English museum’s butterfly room, Heather Everitt’s embroidery style took flight. by Janai Velez “Instead of the traditional Victorian displays of butterflies, impaled with pins, they had a butterfly room with the gorgeous creatures cleverly suspended under Perspex so they looked as if they were flying.” And the spirit of their beauty […]
Cool Tool’s for Patchwork and Quilting
This page is devoted to bringing you all the trusted old favourites and brand new tool/s to the patchwork and quilting market. Udderly Smooth This tool has long been favoured by sewers as its non-greasy formula doesn’t leave residue on fabric and threads and doesn’t stain. Create the perfect tool bag for all your sewing […]
How To Quilt With Clear Thread
Have you ever used clear thread when machine quilting, perhaps successfully, perhaps not? Well, I would like to share with you one of my all-time favourite threads, MonoPoly. By Deborah Louie This wonderfully versatile clear thread is made by Superior Threads. I visited their website for some information and this is what it said: “Our […]
Award-winning Quilting Designer Rachaeldaisy
We catch up with Rachaeldaisy, an award-winning quilting designer who discovered patchwork and quilting in her mid 30s. By Erica Spinks The first question that comes to mind when meeting Rachaeldaisy is how she came to have such a playful name. “Daisy was my beloved pet dog and she was the light of my life. […]
How To: Spring Flowers Free-Motion
What wonderful inspiration for your domestic machine quilting — all those beautiful shapes nature provides for us. I would like to share with you some of my go-to designs for free-motion quilting, sashing and borders for floral quilts. By Deborah Louie These patterns are all continuous, using the free-motion quilting technique. The flowers are soft, […]