Today's Quilter

Today's Quilter provides a fresh take on traditional quilting with 100 glorious pages of projects, features, techiniques and news for intermediate to expert quilters. The quilt projects are exquisitely photographed, while technical features improve skills. There's quilting news, events to visit, designer profiles and quilt heritage, plus chat and fun from the quilting community.

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In this issue, we’re delighted to feature…

TODAY QUILTER

INSPIRED BY… Sustainability

SHOW & TELL • The only thing better than putting the finishing touches to your latest quilt is showing it off! So let’s see what you’ve been up to this month…

FRESH PICKS • Need some last-minute items to pop on your wish-list for Father Christmas this year? Or maybe some new fabric as a gift to yourself? We’ve got you covered…

AMISH MEDALLION SAMPLER • Allow your piecing skills to take centre stage with bright solids contrasted against a dark backdrop. This showstopping project is guaranteed to get a lot of admiration from family and friends!

RAINBOW BURST

Meet the designer

Mary Mayne’s Scrap Bag • WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

PLAY YOUR ACE • Keep your cards close to your chest and get stitching this mesmerising patchwork in a collection of eclectic prints!

SPADES AND CLUBS

Meet the designer

quilting styles PICTORIAL QUILTS • Anne Williams looks at a rich array of pictorial quilts and observes what makes them so magical…

FURTHER INFORMATION

TOP TIPS • There are no hard and fast rules for designing and making pictorial quilts. It really depends on the subject of your composition and determining the approach that will best create the effect you wish to portray.

BLOOMING RINGS • Master piecing complex curves using acrylic templates for a dazzlingly beautiful result!

RING THE BELLS

Julie’s tips for piecing curves

Meet the designer

world fabrics FABRICS MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE • LynetteWarren discusses how fabric choices can put a contemporary spin on traditional quilts...

MEET THE AUTHOR

DIRECTORY • Find the fabrics, accessories and more that you want from this month’s issue.

PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE • Banish the winter blues and ride the holiday spirit right through to spring with this trio of harmonized appliquéd blocks in a delicate palette.

A TRANQUIL TRIO

PERFECT PEARS AND BRANCHES MINIS

Meet the designer

ESSENTIAL GUIDE Discovering French Braid Piecing

TECHNICAL TIP

About the designer

IRIS

Meet the designer

TEMPLATES • All the templates you’ll need from issue 69...

BABY BLOCKS COVERLET • WITH CURATOR HEATHER AUDIN OF THE QUILTERS’ GUILD