February/March 2019

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Patchwork - Quilting - Stitchery

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The girls at Knot Knitting have premium string and yarn perfect for your crochet, knitting and macramé projects. The colours are all on trend and the yarn, cotton and string are lovely to work with. Find out more at www.knotknitting.com.au, or find t
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Selvedge DESIGNER EDGE
Sometimes it takes long hikes through dense greenery to find the perfect spot for a refreshing swim — a hidden lagoon with crystal-clear water surrounded by lush foliage. Fenny Suter’s vibrant embroideries capture this idyllic scene in thread and fab
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Aldershot Meadows
• 75cm ( 7/8yd) each of Fabrics A and B (centre block, Border 2 and Border 4 corners) • 1.25m (1 3/8yd) Fabric C (Border 3 and Border 4 corners) • 2m (2 1/4yd) Fabric D (Border 4) • 70cm ( 7/8yd) Fabric E (Borders 3 and 4) • 1.35m (1 1/2yd) Fabric F
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Sharon’s Tips For Fussy Cutting
• To assist you in determining where to cut a fabric when you want to fussy cut, make a window template. Trace the relevant shape from the Pattern Sheet onto template plastic using a fine permanent-marking pen – for the Centre Star, that is the six-p
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Ed’s Shearin’
• 30 x 50cm (12 x 20in) 14-count Aida cloth in Parchment • DMC Stranded Embroidery Cottons: Very Light Pewter (168), Light Pewter (169), Black (310), Pewter Grey (317), Red (321), Light Brown (434), Chartreuse (703), Medium Tangerine (741), Dark Roya
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Meet The Designer …
Sharon Burgess lives in country Victoria in Australia. She started sewing when she borrowed her mother’s sewing machine in 2009 – not to sew patchwork! But it wasn’t long after that that she took a beginner’s quilting class at her local quilt shop, a
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NEGATIVE POSITIVE Violin quilt
• 2m (2 1/8yd) solid white fabric • About 200 selvedge strips cut/8in wide in various lengths from 2–21in • 2.1m (2 3/8yd) backing fabric • Batting at least 140 x 150cm (55 x 48in) • Fusible web • 6mm ( 1/4in) bias tape maker • 5mm ( 1/4in) fusible
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Rachel Riley
Please describe where you live and your workspace. I live in semi-rural Wisconsin on what was originally part of a cattle farm. We have 10 acres for the kids to ramble on along with the old barn and silo. My main sewing is done in the dining room. It
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Elise Ross
How feel did you when you first started cross stitching? I started to cross stitch a long, long time ago and I’m not sure what first attracted me to it. But I find even now, when I start stitching after a couple of days’ break, I feel instantly calm
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Crocodile Rock SWADDLE CLOTH
• 2.2m (2 3/8yd) solid white fabric • 30cm ( 3/8yd) green print fabric (binding) • Embroidery needle • DMC Stranded Embroidery Cotton in Light Brown (434), Very Light Avocado Green (471), Ultra Light Avocado Green (472), Light Yellow Beige (3047) and
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Samantha Dorn
Where do you live and work? I live in the semi-rural town of Mount Barker in South Australia. It is one of the fastest-growing residential areas in the state, but it still has a great sense of country charm. Can you tell us a little about your famil
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Love IS IN THE AIR
• Scraps of assorted red print fabrics to total about 1m (1 1/8yd) • 2.4m (2 5/8yd) red and white floral print fabric (background) • 5.1m (5 1/2yd) backing fabric • 2.15m (2 3/8yd) red and white check print fabric (Borders 1 and 3) • 1.1m (1 1/4yd)
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Debra Kinsey
When did you start knitting? My mother taught me to knit in early primary school and we also had to knit and crochet in Grade 4 at school. My first project was a blue-and-red-striped garter stitch scarf, which I still have. I also learnt to sew in se
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Ebony & Ivory SCARF
The piano was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Traditionally the black keys were made of ebony and the white keys were made of wood and covered with strips of ivory. ED note: Thank you to my godson Ziggy for being our
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Natalie Bird
Where do you live? I live in The Redlands, about 45 minutes south-east of Brisbane city, on Moreton Bay. Our home is right by the water. My husband and I live with two of our three daughters, two dogs and a cat. Our eldest daughter lives nearby with
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Strawberry Fields Forever
• 1.1m (1 1/4yd) cream spot print fabric (appliqué background and Borders 2 and 4) • Fat quarter each of five red and orange print fabrics (appliqué and Border 2) • Fat quarter green print fabric (vine and leaves) • Fat eighth each of two more gree
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Guitar Companion
• Fat quarter wood-grain print fabric (pouch outer) • Fat quarter music print fabric (pouch lining) • 10in square of light teal print fabric (internal pocket) • 10in square of solid brown fabric (guitar neck and body) • 2in square of solid black fabr
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Noted
• 30cm ( 3/8yd) aqua print fabric #1 – L01135-1 (note blocks) • 40cm ( 1/2yd) aqua print fabric #2 – L01134-1 (setting triangles) • 55cm ( 5/8yd) aqua print fabric #3 – L01133-1 (border and binding) • 15cm ( 1/4yd) dark grey spot print fabric (appliq
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Madama BUTTERFLY
In this issue we share the instructions to make the doll's body and create her facial features and her hair. In the next issue we will share the instructions to make her beautiful kimono, underskirt, obi and obiage. • Four A4 sheets of white wool-ble
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Michelle Marvig
Where do you live and work? I live in a rural area on the fringe of Sydney. My sewing ‘studio’ is in the corner of my loungeroom. The design wall sits next to the fireplace, the cutting table greets you when you turn right from the entrance foyer. Yo
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Vikki Collumbine
What is it that keeps you creating? From chatting with so many creative people over the years I think we all share a common impulse, a desire and a basic need to create. It’s in our DNA! Creating is one of my biggest joys in life and I simply couldn’

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