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In this issue

Sadly this is the last issue of P&Q but we still have some great articles to inspire you.
Some quick pieced quilts for you this month featuring fabrics from Art Gallery Fabrics – The Great Outdoors Quilt is the perfect quilt for lounging on in the garden, while the cute Petite Circus Playmat features classic circus figures. If pastel quilts are your thing, then perhaps the Butterfly Bows Cot Quilt will inspire you; it can also be made quite quickly. The Sewing Machine Throw Cover features haberdashery fabrics from Makower and will keep the dust off your machine when it’s not in use. Stuart’s Stashbusting block this month is an old classic. As this is the last issue, we are going to be unable to finish the Calendar Quilt project I’m afraid; a different quilt setting alternating the blocks with plain squares will enable you to make a quilt at least. Not finishing the quilt as Roz designed it is one of the hardest parts about the magazine closing, for both of us.

We’ve got some excellent articles for you to read this month. Helen visited Quilts UK for us and has reviewed the winning quilts in the first show at Malvern for three years. On a more personal level, we take a look at the Icknield Quilters recent exhibition celebrating their 30th anniversary. We also visit the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow while our regular Colour Me contributor, Kenzo Nakamura explains the background to some of his recent designs in Exploring Pentagons.

And so, there we have it; 335 issues over thirty seven years, from humble quarterly beginnings to a monthly magazine enjoyed by many. I want to thank each and every one of you for reading and enjoying the magazine over all those years.

S&B – Excellence And Diversity

As part of the Heritage Open Days held each year by English Heritage, Standfast & Barracks, a fabric printing company in Lancaster, opened its doors which meant visitors could go behind the walls of the severe Victorian building and take a glimpse into the world of printing fabric. Having only ever dyed fabrics with lots of water and messy dyes in my kitchen and printed with wooden blocks on fabric, I was intrigued to see behind the scenes.

S&B – Excellence And Diversity

4 mins

Meet A Quilter Joë Bennison

If you’ve visited a quilt show in the last couple of years you can’t have failed to miss the rise in longarm quilting both from the quilts on display to the manufacturers demonstrating the latest machines. I first took notice of longarm quilting when I attended the National Quilt Championships at Sandown in Surrey; here one particular quilter, with her exquisite wholecloth cot quilts, has swept into prominence. The quilter in question is Joë Bennison. I met her at the end of last year to find out more about her and her quilting journey.

Meet A Quilter Joë Bennison

6 mins

First And Last Sally Ablett

This month regular contributor Sally Ablett tells us about two of her quilts.

First And Last Sally Ablett

3 mins

Six Years Of Journal Quilting

In the last issue, Joanna introduced us to journal quilts. This month she tells us more about her own journey in journal quilt making.

Six Years Of Journal Quilting

7 mins

The Sewing Group

Emma Crowe’s new play ‘The Sewing Group’ shows the impact of 21st century technologies and the pressures of high powered work places on our minds and temperaments by conjuring up a simpler life in pre-industrial England.

The Sewing Group

5 mins

The Jane Austen Community Quilt – An Update

2017 saw a bustle of activity here at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. In May, Lucy Worsley came to the museum to place flowers at the front of the house marking 200 years since the death of Jane Austen; followed swiftly by a year of events including writing workshops, village walks, talks (a highlight being Sue Dell’s presentation of her research into the Austen coverlet, now conserved and redisplayed in the museum) and community sewing workshops in preparation for the completion of our community quilt.

The Jane Austen Community Quilt – An Update

4 mins

Greenhill Quilting

This month Jacob Reading from Greenhill Quilting tells us his story about becoming the Gammill UK representative and his love of longarm quilting.

Greenhill Quilting

6 mins

A Splash Of Colour In A Bleak, Grey World

It is 1943 and Mies Boissevain is imprisoned with seven other women. A member of a prominent banking family, Mies and her family had been sheltering persecuted people and using the cellar of her house as a base for the Resistance group known as CS-6, one of the few groups that performed acts of sabotage. Mies, two of her sons, her niece and nephew were members of the group when they were discovered by the Germans. Many members were immediately executed but Mies and her niece were arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Vught, then Ravensbruck.

A Splash Of Colour In A Bleak, Grey World

4 mins

First And Last Sandie Lush

My first quilt was completed in early 1990 and was made out of necessity. I'd always had a keen interest in crafts but this had been confined to knitting, counted cross stitch and the occasional stint of dressmaking. Before getting married, I had never even seen a patchwork quilt, let alone thought about making one.

First And Last Sandie Lush

3 mins

Let's Go Shopping To Backstitch

Sometimes it’s easy to miss things that are completely under our noses, we forget to look close to home for a solution. And that is what happened when I was looking for a quilt shop to visit for Let’s Go Shopping. I suddenly remembered there was a shop I had never visited before that was pretty much on my doorstep. So on a sunny early spring-like day, I headed off to Backstitch in the village of Barton near Cambridge.

Let's Go Shopping To Backstitch

4 mins

To Cruise or not to Cruise: Is that the question?

Well, a few years ago now I had the amazing opportunity to go, not only on my maiden cruise, but also on my maiden P & Q Tour. Double whammy! The cruise was a joint endeavour between Judi of P & Q Tours and James of Japan Journeys, also a maiden endeavour that proved so successful the experience was repeated a couple of years later, having ironed out a few of the wrinkles from the first trip.

To Cruise or not to Cruise: Is that the question?

3 mins

First And Last Judith Dursley

Judith Dursley tells us about her first and last quilts this month. A fan of miniature quilts she recently won a Judge’s Choice award in the Jen Jones Challenge 2017.

First And Last Judith Dursley

2 mins

The Scottish Quilt Championships 2017

The Scottish Quilt Championships are staged in The Royal Highland Centre outside Edinburgh, a venue close to Edinburgh Airport and well served by good roads and signage, with absolutely no need to get involved with city traffic! The car park is free, and a kind gentleman in a steward’s uniform saw me across the road to the hall, even though there were scarcely any cars about. I say ‘staged’ advisedly, because walking into the show hall is very much like walking onto a stage, albeit a very large one. The walls and ceiling are black and the carpet dark grey, which might be considered oppressive but which I find exciting; there is an air of drama and the competition quilts are displayed with the panache of a theatrical event.

The Scottish Quilt Championships 2017

7 mins

Colour at Mottisfont

It’s not often that I get the chance (or time) to go out for the day to visit a quilt exhibition but when we received notification of the latest exhibition featuring work of Kaffe Fassett at the National Trust property, Mottisfont in Hampshire this autumn, I decided it was time I made the effort even though it was a couple of hours drive away.

Colour at Mottisfont

3 mins

Quiltfest 2017

For the fifteen years that this exhibition has been running, Val Shields has been the driving force behind Quiltfest. Over that time she has managed to bring a wide range of both exhibitions and international quilters to mid Wales. However, this year The Quilters’ Guild Region 13 has taken over the running of the event whilst still retaining the help and advice of Val who forms part an integral part of the committee. It is hoped to build on and expand the very successful formula that she has created. In the planning for over a year, Quiltfest hosted not one but four excellent exhibitions this year.

Quiltfest 2017

4 mins

View Seven – ‘A Sense of Place'

Last December, View Seven held their biennial exhibition at The Menier Gallery near London’s Borough Market. The group consists of seven textile artists, whose ‘shared aim is to create great art for contemporary living – art people can live with and enjoy.’ The Menier Gallery itself is an interesting place; a large partitioned room, bare brick walls and a winding staircase set the mood. Claire Benn, Claire Higgott, Claudia Helmer, Susie Koren, Leslie Morgan, Daline Stott and Karen Farmer have put together another very interesting show entitled ‘A Sense of Place’. It explores the artists’ response to different environments and each artist has responded in their own unique style.

View Seven – ‘A Sense of Place'

5 mins

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Patchwork and Quilting Magazine Description:

PublisherMyTime Media Ltd.

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LanguageEnglish

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This is a magazine written by quilters for quilters! British Patchwork & Quilting magazine is the UK’s longest published, monthly best selling specialist quilting magazine, first published in 1985. Each issue has a wide selection of projects to do with patchwork, quilting, appliqué or related textiles requiring various levels of expertise and using a variety of techniques. Enjoy in-depth articles looking at the historical aspects of quilting or other aspects of textiles.

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