Page 3 - Patchwork & Quilting - UK (February 2020)

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FROM THE DESK OF
THE EDITORS

With the hectic Christmas and New Year period already starting to become a
distant memory, it’s time to look ahead to lighter evenings and spring! We’ve
Joanna Kent added a list of all the various quilt competition shows to this issue with details
Editor of their closing dates and themes. Every quilt show needs quilts as without
them, there is no quilt show. If you’ve never entered a quilt into a quilt show
before, maybe 2020 is the year for you; everyone has to start somewhere.
So why not have a go this year?

We’ve got a wonderful selection of quilt projects to inspire you this month.
The Hillside Quilt makes great use of the new Great British Quilter Back to
Basics collection designed by Sarah Ashford for Dashwood Studio. If quick
piecing is your thing, the Concentric Squares quilt is a simple quilt to make,
add a few HST units and you’ve made Berry Burst. If you have some leftover
Helen Kent strips from a strip roll pack, Katharine Guerrier’s Strippy Table Runner is a

Assistant Editor great way of using them up. I used Liberty Tana Lawn for the first time in my
Liberty Fans Wall Hanging and I think I’m in love! They also quilted beautifully

too. We make the final blocks and complete our Swirling Stars Quilt while
Stuart’s Stashbusting block this month uses up all those thin little strips we
keep. The block would be fun using up selvedges too!

Your reading material in this issue includes a look at the members of the

Crossing Oceans Textile Artists group and their first body of work based on the
theme of nature. Sheilah Daughtree takes a look at the Spotlight @40 collection

of quilts that were first displayed at the Festival of Quilts last August while Judi
Mendelssohn revisits Sew and Sos in Let’s Go Shopping. Sylvia Priest tells us
about her First and Last quilts and we meet Shipton Quilters in Introducing.
Joanna
Happy Quilting

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