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From our visit to the fabulous Festival of Quilts to judging all the stunning entries in our group design competition (page 56), the emphasis has largely been on collaborations of the craftiest kind. As a Festival of Quilts virgin, my trip to this year’s show was quite a revelation! As many of you will know, the exhibition is an explosion of colour and creativity – all wrapped up in an irresistible energy. Like the quilts at the centre of the festival, the energy is almost tangible, as literally thousands of people are brought together through their shared passion for quilting, sewing, and all things textile. The many quilts on show were a vibrant mix of styles and designs from talented artists of all ages and nationalities. And, exciting as it is to see the work of designers you have long admired, some of the most stunning quilts were by crafters who remain relatively unknown, but for a simple name check by their quilt; and for me that’s what makes shows like this so special. For a taste of what was on show, see our selection of the winning quilts on page 8. Offering a much quieter energy, the quilts and projects in this issue are a calm collection of makes designed to take you gently into autumn. Forest Stars and Facing West quilts share this month’s cover, by designers Janet Goddard and Mandy Munroe. Inside we have the beautiful Aspen Branches quilt, the latest offering from textile designer and quilter Amy Butler (page 62) followed by a Q&A where Amy shares her love of travel, latest inspirations and current projects (page 68). Stuart Hillard reveals part 2 of his Mystery quilt (page 54) and Diana Woolf explores the tragic tale of Joe the Quilter (page 58). With all this and much more, I trust you will enjoy this issue and find plenty of projects to take you into autumn. E m m a Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and for more patchwork inspiration visit popularpatchwork.com OCTOBER 2017 3 10 72 16 Contents OCTOBER 2017 Projects 16 FACING WEST Modern diagonals 24 BREAKING TIDE One quilt, five styles 29 EMBROIDERED SHOULDER BAG A gorgeous mix of patchwork and embroidery 34 CRAZY LINEN FLOOR CUSHION Contemporary comfort 38 IN LOVE WITH LANDSCAPE – PROJECT & TUTORIAL Liz Betts takes us on a walk through the Sussex countryside 54 MYSTERY QUILT Stuart Hillard reveals part 2 of the mystery 62 ASPEN BRANCHES 34 29 Classically beautiful quilt 72 HUSSIF Perfect on-the-go sewing kit 75 FOREST STARS A quilt of many stars 80 ORANGE PEEL Modern quilt, traditional block 84 BLOCK OF THE MONTH Arkansas traveller 4 OCTOBER 2017 REGULAR Features 75 10 DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE Results from the design competition 58 HORRID HISTORIES The tragic tale of Joe the quilter 68 Q&A Amy Butler talks design, travel, inspiration and so much more… 96 PATCHWORK OF MY LIFE Louisa Goult discusses her need to share her passion for patchwork Regulars 3 EDITOR’S WELCOME A look at the October issue 6 NEWS & REVIEWS All that’s new and crafty in the world of Patchwork 68 80 12 SWATCH THIS SPACE Round up of the latest must-have fabrics 14 TAKE ME HOME It’s all looking spooky 22 AT HOME WITH Crafty Styling for your Forest Stars quilt 44 SHOW & TELL Readers' news and projects! 46 BOOKSHELF The latest crafty tomes 48 WHAT'S ON Events near you 58 53 STUART’S SURGERY 22 Appliqué know-how 87 COMING NEXT MONTH What’s in the next issue 88 SUBS PAGES Never miss another issue 95 GIVEAWAYS Fabulous prizes up for grabs! OCTOBER 2017 5 CAKE MIX RECIPES FROM MODA Anyone who’s been enjoying the cake mix recipes from Moda to be used along with their layer cake fabric bundles (10in x 10in) will be excited to know that they’ve recently launched the next four in the series. These are recipes 5-8 for anyone who’s counting! We’ve also been enjoying the cupcake recipes to use with Moda’s 5in charm packs, which came out earlier in the summer. For anyone who hasn’t come across them before, each cake or cupcake mix pack contains 42 sheets of triangle templates that you can place onto a layer of fabric The Beautiful Stitch Non-uniform Day by James Fox and quickly cut and sew. It’s a speedy way of creating a design with the aid of some The Embroiderers’ Guild has a vast collection of over 10,000 stitched items of historical value, examples on the Moda website at blog. from fragments to large hangings and last year, it was moved to the Bucks County Museum on modafabrics.com/cakemix. For useful hints long-term loan. The inaugural exhibition, The Beautiful Stitch, is running until 28 October and and tips on how to use these time-saving gives visitors a chance to focus on the diverse and ever-changing nature of embroidery across packs, check out these YouTube clips from time and place, and will include some of the finest pieces from the Guild’s stunning collections Moda’s own Carrie Nelson at youtu.be/s_ of historical and contemporary embroidery. pmZU-WjaA and youtu.be/mx_GV7FJ2-g If you make it along on a Friday or Saturday, you’ll also be able to check in on the progress of winbournefabrics.co.uk the museum’s Muir Trust Artist in Residence, James Fox. James works mostly with machine 4packs of 8 embroidery and reverse appliqué to create hangings of various sizes. His residency recipes to give away complements The Beautiful Stitch exhibition and his works raise questions on gender roles, See page 95 culture and other aspects of our social and personal lives. The Beautiful Stitch – Sunday 1 July 2017 to Saturday 28 October 2017 James Fox residency – Thursday 21 September to Saturday 21 October followed by exhibition of works Saturday 4 November to Saturday 2 December 2017 Admission: free Museum open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm, Bucks County Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury, HP20 2QP Telephone: 01296 331441 Email: [email protected] NEWS & REVIEWS Keeping you in the loop with the latest news from the craft world COMING SOON – MODERN RETRO This stunning range of 1950s leaves and flower prints is hitting the shops in October and it’s right up our street! In a rich palette of teals, mustards, emerald greens and reds and complemented by the Linea range of abstract lines and crosshatch patterns, it’s one to watch for lovers of mid-century design and all things vintage. A sophisticated take on florals. makoweruk.com 6 OCTOBER 2017 REGULAR SHOP TALK COURSE PICKS We’re always interested to know what makes our readers tick, so Our pick of courses happening around the UK each month we’re asking one of your favourite shops to tell us a bit about themselves and which products, old and new, are popular with their customers. This month, we’re getting to know Sunnyside Fabrics, an online retailer based in Greater Manchester. Sunnyside Fabrics UK are here for all your dressmaking, quilting and craft fabric needs. With collections from Riley Blake, Michael Miller and Clothworks, we have fabrics galore to cater to all of your patchwork and quilting projects – all of the highest quality. Other popular ranges include Sew Simple, Tilda, Gutermann, and Red Rooster to give you countless options – whether you’re making a baby quilt or a king size quilt. New Christmas fabrics and panels are now in stock with bright modern colours for children that will suit the modern home. We are an online business with lots of bargains to be had with weekly offers and new ranges coming in all the time. Kantha Oldie but Goodie: The Basically Hugs collection is always Explore this beautiful craft with tutor Sandra Wiggins in a popular with our customers. Small but one-day course at Westhope College. Originating from rural modern designs, with hearts, stripes, Bengal, Kantha is a combination of hand embroidery and spots and florals in lovely soft blues quilting, making an infinite number of designs possible and pinks, with more vibrant choices from a simple running stitch. The piece that you’ll take including oranges and yellows. These home on the day could be the beginnings of a quilt, a wall cotton fabrics from Red Rooster are perfect stash fillers, that you will hanging, a cushion or even a bespoke bag. keep coming back to time and time again. Tuesday 24 October 2017, 10am-4pm, £50, Westhope College, Westhope, Craven Arms, Shropshire, SY7 9JL New on the Block: westhope.org.uk New fabrics coming in October/No- vember include Riley Blake’s Never- Introduction to machine quilting land – a mythical collection with a range of four stunning feature prints In this skills-based class, tutor Annabel Groom will cover and two equally beautiful comple- quilting in a straight line and free-motion quilting on your mentary co-ordinates. The collection own machine. You’ll be practicing using small samples is available in a choice of three striking colourways, featuring Captain of fabric and wadding but if you have a small patchwork Hook, Peter Pan and the Darlings. Fabulous designs for children’s top that you would like to use, you’re welcome to bring it quilts and accessories. along as well as wadding and backing fabric. Thursday 20 October, 10am-2pm, £45, Close to our Hearts: The Patchwork Dog and Basket, 2 Mount Place, One of our personal favourites is the Lewes, BN7 1YH Wonderland 2 collection by Melissa patchworkdogandbasket.co.uk Mortenson from The Polka Dot Chair Blog. A mixture of pale mint, teal and Cathedral windows pink with touches of gold sparkle – they’re all just beautiful! Other designs include traditional gingham Starting with the basic square block, tutor Iris Marriott as well as characterful ‘Rabbits in top hats’ – an Alice in Wonderland will show you how to use this technique to make stars, themed collection that is so subtle it’s truly gorgeous. Our absolute which will be timely for a starry Christmas night or a favourite is the floral with gold. firework spectacular! More experienced students can go on to more complicated oblongs or off-centre squares To claim a 10% discount on your first order quote code POP10 at the if time permits. The finished blocks will be more or less checkout. This offer will be available until 30 November 2017 to all complete in themselves so projects can be as big or small Popular Patchwork readers. as you wish. Ideal for cot quilts, bags, or cushions. Tuesday 24 October 2017, 10am-4pm, £35, Roseland Sunnyside Fabrics, 69 Stockport Rd, Hyde, SK14 5QG Mews Studio, Roseland, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 3PQ sunnysidefabricsuk.com lynhervalley.co.uk/roselandmewsstudio OCTOBER 2017 7 REGULAR L to R: Emma with Stuart Hillard; Emma with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably; Emma with Victoria Findlay Wolfe; St Thomas Stitch and Chat Group with their winning entry; a close-up of their winning quilt Another great year for the Festival of Quilts What a ball we had at the Festival of Quiilts – and how sad we are that it seemed to go by so quickly! We were thrilled to meet so many of our readers and were encouraged by the lovely feedback we received, so thanks to all of you that popped by to say hello. Our winning quilt from the Lewis & Irene group competition received so many compliments that our editor Emma persuaded the team from St Thomas Stitch and Chat group in Warrington to let us feature their design in a future issue, so watch this space! Emma also managed a whistle stop tour of the halls to catch up with some of our favourite makers including the intrepid duo Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably, our very own Stuart Hillard and the supremely talented Victoria Findlay Wolfe. We would like to thank our collaborators Lewis & Irene for their generous subscription gifts and David Drummond for their amazing show prizes including a top of the range Janome sewing machine worth over £2,000. It was an amazing show with so much to admire but we know that words count for so little compared to the excellence that goes into making a truly award-winning quilt so let’s take a look at the gallery of winners...the true stars of the show. The Festival of Quilts winners gallery 2017 Winner Quilt Creations - Silvery Threads - Jacqueline Harvey Winner Traditional Quilts- Annelize Littlefair - The Trouble with Magenta Winner of Miniature Quilts & Best in Show - Phillipa Naylor - Measure for Measure Winner My First Quilt - Anita O’Brien - Winner 2 person - Tidings - Mary Palmer Winner Quilter’s Guild Challenge - Brigit Schuller - The Sprinter Peter and Amina’s Quilt and Anne Kelly 8 OCTOBER 2017 Winner Pictorial Quilts - Janneke de Vries-Bodzinga - African Village Winner Age 5-8 - Fiona Pilcher - Gold at the end of the Rainbow Winner Fine Art Quilt Masters - Margaret Ramsey - Birchington Breakwaters City and Guilds Award - Annie Henderson-Begg Winner Age 9-11 - Leif Sincalir - I don’t know Winner Group Quilts - The Four Seasons - Friday Frolics Winner Age 12-16 - Hannah Goldsmith - Freedom Bound Winner Art Quilts - Lesley Brankin - Big Brother Winner Modern Quilts - Judith Lynch - Winner Contemporary Quilts - Linzi Upton - Beezlebub Winner Primary School - Free as a Bird - Sticks and Stones 1 Belmont Grosevenor School OCTOBER 2017 9 Down by the Riverside COMPETITION Back in May we launched a group design competition, in partnership with Lewis and Irene. Each group who entered was given a 10m length of the stunning ‘Down by the Riverside’ border print and the brief was to design a quilt to incorporate it. The entries were a varied and gorgeous mix of designs and choosing the winning quilts was a challenge. However, judging by the overwhelming response from visitors to the Popular Patchwork stand at The Festival of Quilts, we are confident in our final choice. Here we talk to the finalists about their experience of working as a group for this design challenge. 1ST PRIZE St Thomas Stitch and Chat Now in its tenth year, St Thomas Stitch and Chat meet twice monthly at the vicarage in Stockton Heath. With around 20 members, ranging from their thirties to their eighties, they are grateful the vicar has lots of chairs and a very long dining table! The meetings vary and cover a variety of crafts from knitting and crochet to embroidery, cross stitch and of course patchwork and quilting. Avid quilter, workshop teacher and founder, Joanne Ridley, shares their experience of working together on a group project for the first time: “As the leader of the group, I could see that many of the members had caught the ‘quilting bug’ and so I suggested we took part in the competition. There were eight members who wanted to join in, making a total of nine of us altogether. The other members were very supportive and we enjoyed keeping them up to date with our progress and showing them the quilt as it grew.” “Our inspiration was taken from the flowers that grow in riverside meadows. I then designed three flower blocks and we chose ten complementary shades from the Oakshott range to match the colours in the beautiful Lewis and Irene border print. Everyone made flower blocks and if you look carefully, you will see they all include elements of the border print fussy cut within them. This and the sky fabric onto which the flowers are appliquéd, ties the blocks and border together. Meeting up over several evenings with our sewing machines, (including one hand-cranked machine!) we completed the appliqué, and once the quilt top was together I then went on to quilt it.” “We often have a stall at our Christmas Fair so we’ve worked collaboratively on the items for that in the past, but this is the first time we’ve worked together to make one quilt. It’s a bit difficult to divide a quilt between nine people, so we’ve decided to raffle it for Church funds. But first we’re going to hang it up in church for a while so that our congregation and visitors can enjoy it when they pop in for a cup of tea at our Open Church mornings.” “We were really thrilled to win the competition, especially since we have a real range of experience and skill in our little group. We all managed to get to the Festival of Quilts to see the quilt on the Popular Patchwork stand, and for some of us that was a first trip to a big show and we all came away with lots of inspiration and enthusiasm for future projects. If there’s another competition we’ll definitely enjoy taking part.” 10 OCTOBER 2017