Quilters Companion

Quilters Companion is the definitive patchwork and quilting magazine. Published since 2001, Quilters Companion provides readers with exciting quilting projects. These projects are accompanied by easy-to follow instructions and accompanying pattern sheets, stunning styled shots and interesting stories about the featured projects. We pride ourselves not just on being an instructional publication — we are a good read as well! Purchase includes the Digital Edition and News Service. Please stay in touch via our Facebook Page.

Editor’s Journal

Quilters Companion • QC No. 130 Vol.22 No.6 NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2024

Quilty Treasures

Festival of Quilts SA Quilt Show • The 2024 South Australian Festival of Quilts recently concluded and we share some of the winners here. The awards ceremony took place on July 4 and was presented by Frances Adamson AC, Governor of South Australia. The SA Quilters’ Guild celebrated 40 years with a special category — Ruby Red. You can see all the winning quilts at: www.saquilters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-FOQ-Winners.pdf

Flowers from Linda • This delightful Liberty, linen and gingham quilt is a combination of English paper pieced pentagon flowers and Nine-patch blocks. This is the perfect project to showcase your Liberty fabrics stash.

A Little Patch of Country

Midnight Whimsy • Designed late at night, the midnight-coloured fabrics add a touch of whimsy. The blocks are constructed with rotary cutting and machine sewing.

Pinwheel Plus • With soothing greens and blues and simple rotary cutting and machine piecing, this is an ideal quilt to make without any fuss, but plenty of impact.

Sweet Mountain Delight • This quilt was first featured in Quilters Companion’s sister magazine, Homespun, in 2020, and we share it here for our QC readers. A bit of continental drifting from Cassandra, as she mixes her ‘mountain’ ranges to blend jagged alps, Arctic peaks and American autumnal hills. With this beautiful quilt, she has stretched her design boundaries to create a whole world of colour.

Christmas Joy • Make a modern Christmas wall hanging using white, grey and black fabrics. Or, substitute with the traditional colours of red and green. Make use the alphabet stitches on your machine to create a beautiful, quilted background.

Blue on Blue • This one-block Tumbler quilt features an array of calming blue print fabrics. It is a simple quilt to make, but you get a very impressive finish. You can make it bigger by adding more rows of Tumbler blocks. Chris has constructed this quilt using freezer-paper templates. This technique is a great way to cut out fabric shapes: when the template is lightly fused to the fabric, it won’t move as you cut. You can also cut three or four layers of fabric at a time. The template can be gently peeled off the fabric and re-used numerous times before it eventually loses its stickiness and needs to be replaced.

The Singer’s Quilt Story Kate Ceberano

From Basics to Beautiful: Free-Motion Quilting on Your Home Machine • Free-motion quilting is a beautiful and expressive technique that allows us to create intricate patterns and designs on our quilts using a domestic sewing machine. Unlike straight-line quilting, free-motion quilting gives us the freedom to move the fabric in any direction, resulting in unique and personalised designs. While it may seem intimidating at first, with practice and the right tools, anyone can master free-motion quilting. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you get started.

Churned • Looks are deceiving – in a charming way – in this twist on a traditional Churn Dash quilt. White strips have been sewn to just two sides of the Churn Dash blocks, making the design off-centre. The result is a square block that is set in straight, traditional rows even though the quilt looks as if it...