“Flaunt your favourite prints by creating a hen house full of fancy rare-breed chickens all ready to shake a tail feather!” – Nicola Dodd ■ Print fabric – Twenty-one (21) fat eighths ■ Cream fabric (chick) – One (1) 6in square approx. ■ Red fabric –

Originally, folk art was a rustic, handmade style of art that often depicted the maker’s life. Consequently, images included those from everyday life, such as flowers, leaves, animals, birds, insects, houses and farm life. Coupled with various geomet

“This quilt uses a variety of techniques to create a fresh Spring feel. The baskets are made of half-square triangles, combined with bias tape for the handles. The Dresden Plates are machine appliquéd to the background and the bias tape sections (ste

Mary Jenkins fondly recalls sleeping underneath a patchwork bedcover as a child growing up in Pembrokeshire, so she supposes she always had some awareness of quilts. But, until her thirties, it was embroidery that interested her. When Mary took up qu

“Florence lives in an old tree stump house with her squirrel friend, Miss Poppy, who on occasion jests with Florrie about whether they actually need another quilt. Obviously, Florrie pays no attention to this kind of talk. There is always a good reas

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“The idea for this quilt came from a hotel near my home that has the most wonderful tulip garden, or ‘parterre’, and original chinoiserie hand-painted wallpaper. In order to get the quilt finished quite quickly and because I already had two major han

Lydia’s Lace by Betsy Chutchian for Moda will transport you back to the 1800s with its retro floral prints and designs inspired by beautiful vintage lace. Betsy has designed these reproduction fabrics in fashionable and luxurious shades of red and bl

This block includes a centre area that has appeared before in previous Blocks of the Month and also features a repeat of the corner rolled-back edges that were in the fourth block in the series. As each block is added, more little details reappear he

We love quilts here at Today’s Quilter. Small ones, large ones, hand or machine quilted, no two are the same and, with this issue, you get a beautiful Pie Crust quilting stencil to make your quilts even more special! Why is it called the Pie Crust? W

Here, we share the latest creations of our very talented readers! They might even inspire you to start a new quilt project... WRITE TO US Today’s Quilter, Our Media, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST EMAIL: todaysquilter@ourmedia.co.uk I have enjoyed ma

HST, APPLIQUÉ TEMPLATES ENLARGE 200% PLEASE NOTE: Appliqué templates DO NOT include seam allowances. HST and Basket templates DO include seam allowances. APPLIQUÉ TEMPLATES ENLARGE 200% PLEASE NOTE: Templates DO NOT include seam allowances. APPLIQU

If you’re anything like us, you can easily spend many blissful hours scanning the web for beautiful blocks to include in your next masterpiece. And for this month’s gift, we’re bringing all the block inspiration to you in physical form! This issue co

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The blocks in this booklet are traditionally pieced by cutting and sewing together individual squares, rectangles and triangles. An alternative approach is to try the following handy methods, which mean you can sew before cutting, so as to avoid stit

Have you ever spent an afternoon simply browsing the web (and on this rare occasion I’m not talking about online shopping)? I mean spending the day exploring the abundance of quilt block options that are available to us quilters. There are traditiona

The Welsh Quilt Centre first opened its doors to the public in 2009. A long-cherished ambition of its founder, Jen Jones, she tells us, “I have been collecting Welsh quilts since the early 1970s and see no point in owning them if I can’t share them w

This is where you get to put your stamp on the magazine! Send in your latest quilty creations and we’ll show them off in all their glory! WRITE TO USToday’s Quilter, Our Media, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4STEMAIL: todaysquilter@ourmedia.co.uk I wanted

“In this project, I have combined two classic traditional blocks, turned them on point (which means turning them through 45°) and sashed them with cornerstones to create a new take on traditional quilt block settings. The blue block is called Stiles

“One of my favourite things about patchwork is looking through books full of blocks, and thinking of all of the possibilities they hold. There are too many blocks for each to be made into an entire quilt, so a sampler quilt is a great solution to try

In this booklet you will find 36 block charts offering all the information you need to make each block in four different sizes. The blocks have been split into 4x4 and 5x5 base grid blocks, and can be combined within the same grid category at any siz

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