Love Patchwork & Homespun Projects

Being so busy before Christ­mas I for­got all about shar­ing some pro­jects I had been lucky enough to con­trib­ute to Love Patch­work & Quilt­ing and Homespun magazines over the last couple of months.   So today, it’s a triple whammy!

Back in Octo­ber Love Patch­work & Quilt­ing fea­tured my Arrow Points quilt and a match­ing mini quilt.   Made with prints from the Fox­glove col­lec­tion by Angela Hoey for Cloud9 Fab­rics it is a simple one block pat­tern that can be made from half yards (or fat quar­ters for a scrap­pi­er look).

You can grab a copy of issue 40 via s Apple News­tand, Zinio or Google Play if you’d like to make your own.

Decem­ber was a blur for every­one right?!?   That’s good, because it sure is for me every year!   So I hope you can for­give me for only just now shar­ing this decidedly Christ­massy pro­ject.    Good news though… if you love Christ­mas in July you’re already off to a headstart!

Every now and again I like to do some­thing com­pletely by hand and, since I don’t EPP, but­ton shapes like this little cush­ion are the per­fect solu­tion.   It might look fiddly but this pro­ject really came togeth­er very quickly and was a pleas­ure to make.

Homespun Magazine has just launched a new ven­ture called Cosy Pro­ject that you may have heard about.   It’s a digit­al pat­tern ser­vice that will fea­ture pro­jects from Homespun.   The site is still hav­ing new pro­jects added to it reg­u­larly so keep an eye out for this little cush­ion pro­ject if you’d like to make one yourself.

If you’re a fan of Love Patch­work & Quilt­ing keep an eye out for the Janu­ary issue.   It should be in avail­able in news­tands near you now and, as usu­al, its packed with great pro­jects from a whole heap of tal­en­ted design­ers.  For the Janu­ary issue Love Patch­work put togeth­er this Indie Design­er Hand­book fea­tur­ing Keera Job, Emily Den­nis and yours truly.

There are heaps of tips, tricks and advice con­tained in the cov­er book as well as three awe­some quilt pat­terns.    Mine is the Starry Eyed quilt with the navy back­ground.  I had so much fun dig­ging through my fab­ric stash to find the ‘per­fect’ tone on tone prints for it and am just so happy with how it turned out.

It arrived home a few weeks ago and I’m happy to report that it’s being put to good use on the couch most nights since then.   I miss the quilts when they take a little hol­i­day around the world so it’s always nice to see them return home!

You should still be able to find a copy of Issue 43 at news­stands near you but just in case… you can fol­low also down­load a copy from Apple News­tand, Google Play and Zinio.

Phew!  There’s a lot to look at there!   I hope you like one (or all!) of them.  If you make your own please don’t for­get to send me a pic­ture or tag me on social media so I don’t miss it.

Have a great weekend!

 

 

3 thoughts on “Love Patchwork & Homespun Projects

  1. What lovely pro­jects, love the starry night one ! Cute Christ­mas cush­ion pro­ject too , maybe if I start on next year’s Xmas gift pro­jects now I might get them done without pulling allnighters !

  2. Hello — I’m cur­rently mak­ing the Starry Eyed quilt. I fell in love with this quilt once I opened up the page. I knew that I had to make this quilt for a friend’s baby shower. Did you quilt the inter­lock­ing wavy lines on a domest­ic machine? Thanks.

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