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There is nothing quite like a homemade quilt and nothing more satisfying than creating it yourself. From planning and creating the design to selecting the colour palette, choosing the fabrics and sewing it together – it really is a work of art. If you, or someone you know is passionate about quilting, you’ll love Quilters Companion. Every issue contains ten, exquisite patchwork and quilting projects, each with their own pattern and comprehensive instructions. Be inspired by the latest techniques and news from the quilting world and visit the studios of Australia’s talented quilters and artists. Regulars include ‘How Did They Do It’ – a fascinating section that deconstructs a finished quilt; and ‘Learn How To’ – introducing new techniques and use of fabrics and colour. Plus look out for ‘Cool Tools’ to keep you up-to-date with the must-have tools of the trade.
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QUILTERS COMPANION MAGAZINE is Australia’s most inspiring and unique patchwork and quilting magazine. Each issue contains exquisite patchwork and quilting projects with accompanying patterns! Featuring both hand and machine projects, it will entertain novice and experienced quilters alike.Quilters Companion offers the highest in quality reading as well as representing the diverse interests and skills of its readers by featuring all styles of quilts from traditional through to contemporary.
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In This Issue:
EDITOR’S JOURNAL
This issue is a rich collection of inspiration, detailed projects showcasing new and exciting techniques, two in-depth features on Australian textile artists’ practices, winning quilts from three worldclass quilt shows and lots more.
Sang Rouge is a gorgeous handmade quilt that uses hexagons to form lozenges — perfect for using up red, pink and brown scraps. Stargazer is a stunning design featuring the rarely seen Woodpile block and Lemoyne Star blocks, all worked in glowing shades of blue batik.
Wendy Whellum shines again with her interpretation of four appliqué blocks inspired by motifs found in antique quilts, beautifully reimagined in modern fabrics.
You’ll meet Australian textile expert Alison Charlton and follow her impressive textile journey, before she guides you through a small textile project that introduces you to the cyanotype…
QUILTY Treasures
SEW CANADA
Canadian Quilters’ annual national show in June featured work from more than 100 makers, but one artist rose above the crowd. Sue Sherman captured Best in Show, the award for outstanding workmanship in an original design as well as both first and second place in the Art – Depiction of Human or Animal Form category. Her powerful quilts turn a spotlight on the threats facing animals in a world reshaped by climate change.
Here, we share Sue’s Best of Show winner alongside several other exhibition standouts that caught our eye.
CROSS MY ART
A small business based near Fife in Scotland has collaborated with the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles to give historic quilts a fresh creative life. DoodleCraft Design is transforming selected quilts from the Guild’s…
QUILTCON 2026
QuiltCon 2026 was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, earlier this year. There were 45 awards and over $40,000USD in prize money, confirming its status as the flagship event for modern quilting. Drawing from the 2026 winners’ gallery and recent QuiltCon cycles, certain currents seem to be emerging – story as structure; bold, saturated and sharp; slow stitching, modern voice; quilting lines as drawing and constraints as catalysts.
Congratulations to the two Australian winners – Kathrine Jones for The Quilter and Tania Tanti for Shake it Up.
Best in Show
Mom Jeans, 206cm x 198cm (81in x 78in), Carolyn McKibbbon Artist’s statement: “Upcycled denim was the inspiration for this quilt. I cut up nine old pairs of jeans I wore in early motherhood, ones that were sitting in a box, taking up…
Nature, place and slow making with DIJANNE CEVAAL
ABOUT DIJANNE
QC Where were you born? Where do live now?
DC I was born in the Netherlands and came to Australia as a nine year old child. When we first came to Australia we went to Bonegilla and then my father got a job near Jerilderie in the Riverina. At present I live in Morwell, quite an industrial town in a coal mining area in Gippsland, but nonetheless surrounded by some interesting bushland.
QC Tell us a little about your long-running blog Musings of a Textile Itinerant.
DC I started the blog in 2004 and must admit I did not blog much in 2025 but have recently restarted, as on reflection it provides a readily available archive/diary of things that have interested me, travels that I have undertaken with…
POMEGRANATE Temptation
Rich blues, greens, and reds surround a cluster of luscious pomegranates, creating a radiant and refined wall hanging. Featuring free-motion appliqué, the appliqué and quilting are done at the same time.
You will use fusible web to cut and secure your pattern shapes and textile ink to give depth and dimension.
When the appliqué shapes are fused in place, you make a sandwich and appliqué/quilt the shapes in place.
Finished size: 85cm x 45cm (33in x 17¾in)
Designer: Dijanne Cevaal
origidij
dcevaal@gmail.com
origidij.blogspot.com
MATERIALS
• 70cm (¾yd) dark blue mottled print fabric• 40cm (½yd) solid light green fabric• Fat quarter solid red print fabric• 50cm (⅝yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 90cm x 52cm (36in x 20in). Dijanne used Matilda’s Own wool/polyester batting; she says that it has a nice…
Sang Rouge
This quilt is perfect to use up all those little leftovers of reds, pinks and browns! The lozenge is a quick shape to make – only requiring four hexagons – so it comes together fairly quickly.
It would also look good in a variety of blues or any colour you choose.
Finished size: 137cm x 132cm (54in x 52in)
Designer: Janelle Noack – Country Matters Design
www.countrymattersdesign.com
jillimar@bigpond.com
MATERIALS
• An assortment of fat sixteenths and scraps of print fabrics in shades of red, pink, beige and cream• 25cm (⅜yd) cream print fabric (Border 1)• 1.3m (1⅜yd) red print fabric (Border 2 and binding)• 3.1m (3⅜yd) backing fabric• Batting at least 150cm x 145m (60in x 58in)• 620 pre-cut 1in hexagon papers for English paper piecing. Alternatively, use template plastic,…
Stargazing
The Woodpile block is a strip pieced Log Cabin variation that likely emerged in the late 1800s, when quilters began naming and adapting Log Cabin layouts. It uses the same construction logic — narrow strips built around a centre — but arranged to resemble a stack of cut firewood, hence the name.
Lemoyne Stars! Now they go back to the early 18th century and they remain as popular and splendid today as they were then.
Rosemary has used batik fabrics in, what she calls, ‘reef colours’, including very light and very dark backgrounds as they make the colours ‘pop’.
This stunning quilt is a combination of demanding and relaxing: Rosemary says that making the Woodpile blocks was surprisingly easy, however the star blocks are challenging – but very worth the…
Déjà Vu
The four appliqué blocks were inspired by motifs found in antique quilts, reimagined in modern fabrics to give the design a fresh, contemporary feel. The appliqué, piecing and quilting were all completed by machine. For this project, Wendy used the prepared edge method of appliqué, turning the edges under and gluing them in place before stitching. If you prefer, you can use your own favourite appliqué technique and still achieve a beautiful result.
Finished size: 127cm (51in) square
Designer: Wendy Whellum
@legendandlace
willywd200@gmail.com
MATERIALS
• Eight squares, 10in of light-value print fabrics (appliqué background)• Three fat eighths of light-value print fabrics (appliqué background)• Two fat quarters of light-value print fabrics (appliqué background)• Three squares, 10in of medium-value print fabrics (vases)• Assorted green print fabrics to total about 50cm (⅝yd) (vines…
Rainbow Stash 2025 – Hero Colour Challenge
Each month, participants gathered online as a single hero colour and a paired word prompt was randomly selected. The word prompts vaguely evoked ideas of textile techniques, which we discussed for the month. Every maker then worked from those same two elements, creating a 10in square textile artwork that reflected their own style, interests, techniques and artistic voice.
What emerged over the year was extraordinary.
Although every participant began with the same colour and word, no two works were alike. Some artists approached the prompt technically – using words such as warp, raised, removed or carve to inspire textile processes including discharge, layering, distortion, stitching, cutting away, manipulation of surfaces or dimensional construction. Others interpreted the words conceptually, weaving memory, symbolism, humour, storytelling or emotion into their pieces.
One maker…
Organic Borders
Every machine quilter knows the subtle wave of anxiety that hits when a freshly pieced quilt top is finally basted or loaded onto the frame. You look down and despite your best efforts – or the best efforts of the piecer who handed it to you – the borders are a little wavy. The corners aren’t perfectly square. If you try to force a rigid, geometrically symmetrical quilting design into these borders, you are in for a long, frustrating battle of easing in fullness, wrestling with puckers and ultimately highlighting the exact imperfections you wanted to hide.
For years, the gold standard of custom quilting has been mathematical symmetry. We have been conditioned to believe that borders must be divided into perfectly equal increments, with motifs that mirror each other…
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