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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Today's Quilter

INSPIRED BY… Shades of Autumn

FRESH PICKS • There are some great new online communities being launched this month. Read all about it.

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…

WHEEL OF MYSTERY • Transform this traditional block with sumptuous prints and a kaleidoscopic layout that shines through in its secondary design!

Jo Avery CREATIVE CORNER • TAKING INSPIRATION FROM NATURE

PAIRING SUBJECTS WITH TECHNIQUES

A bit more:

TAKE A TUMBLE • Make the most of your gorgeous Liberty fabrics with this clever Tumbling Blocks design, created to show off the different tones in the collection.

Cutting diamonds from strips

Meet the designer

365 FIFTH AVENUE • Combine sweet pastels with juxtaposing brights and bolds adorned with elegant florals to make this eclectic beauty!

No waste Flying Geese method (makes 4)

Meet the fabric designer

quilting heritage JANE AUSTEN AT HOME • Anne Williams takes a look at the life and times of Jane Austen and the gorgeous new Jane Austen at Home fabric collection by Riley Blake Designs…

JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE

SEWING PURSE • This handy purse is just the thing for taking to sewing classes or when doing some al fresco sewing when out and about.

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ESSENTIAL GUIDE Introducing Stuffed Quilting • Some truly memorable quilts have been created with stuffed quilting, and here we introduce you to this attractive trapunto technique

INTRODUCING STUFFED QUILTING – TROUBLESHOOTING • Even the simplest stuffed quilting designs can bring an extra dimension to our work. Here are answers to some questions about this technique.

About the designer

WHERE THE HEART IS • Striking felted wool houses stand proud and tall on a dark background surrounded by a blackberry and anemone flower vine... heralding the start of autumn.

Sewing Mitred Borders

Meet the designer

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

NAUTICAL FLAGS

SIGNATURE BLOCK

Meet the designer

TEMPLATES • All the templates you’ll need from issue 66...

IN AN IDEAL WORLD • Jane Rae explores textile traditions in a virtual world…