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“Inspired by Gardens”…A Needle Pulling Thread Issue 59 explores a wide variety of blooms and leaves beautifully embroidered, quilted, and knitted too! Inspired by gardens and meadows, many techniques are used to accomplish delightful projects you’ll love! Double-knitting, intarsia, and lace work are used for creating excellent knits! Find out how to make an easier-than-it-looks stain-glass effect appliquéd flowers, a curved checkerboard background for appliquéd blooms, and see the easiest way to piece together hexagon quilt blocks by machine! You’ll find breathtaking embroidered pieces depicting lush gardens and realistic blooms. The idea is to create beauty with needle and thread, soak in the good vibes, and feel refreshed again!
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Making Hexagon Quilt Blocks by Machine
Join Ana Buzzalino in her studio as she is inspired by Kaffe Fassett’s floral fabrics to make a hexagon quilt. This is a tutorial on how to make the hexagon quilt blocks instead of using English paper piecing. Includes: the material list, photos, and instructions on how to prepare, cut, and piece the hexagon quilt blocks together.
Ana Buzzalino
www.anabuzzalino.com
Instagram: ana_buzzalino
Facebook: anabuzzalino
Sunflower Socks
Hand knitted socks pattern with a sunflower running up the calf and the words Be a Flower and Stretch in the Sun knitted into each sole respectively. This is the 13th sock pattern in Lorraine Thompson’s Thoughtful Soles Series where she was inspired by one of the mindfulness magazines she admired. It had a full-page photo of a field of sunflowers with the following caption. “When you are busy, it is calming to remember that somewhere out there is a vast field of flowers just stretching in the sun.” Knitting these socks is her tribute to that bit of advice and working with such luscious yarns like Universal Yarn Bella Cash and Donnina makes it easier to be mindful. Includes: material list, instructions, charts for colorwork.
Designed by Lorraine Thompson
905.885.0347
Hope Springs Eternal Wall Quilt
In this timely wall quilt, Paul Léger uses the stain glass technique to appliqué a modern quilt, giving it a whimsical cartoonish feel. While selecting the fabrics, he decided to use colours that show his support for Ukraine. Includes: material list, petal and leaf templates, instructions and instruction photos.
Designed by Paul Léger
www.paullegerquilts.com
Fractured Flower Trivet
This trivet design is the culmination of the last several Knit Together articles: the adaptation of the flower in Issue 57 Creative Options in Knitting, the striped I-cord from Issue 58 Edgy Knitting, and the double-knitting piece Fractured Flower Trivet that follows in this issue. The piece can be used before or after a wash to full the fabric. Includes: material list, flower chart, instructions.
Designed by Cynthia MacDougall
www.CGKnitters.ca
blog: cgknitters.ca/blog/
ravelry name: macknitnow
Cottage Garden Needlebook
An old English cottage surrounded by a lush floral garden is the inspiration for Kim Beamish’s adorable needlebook. The stitches used to make the needlebook are Cross Stitch, Back Stitch, Wrapped Back Stitch, Lazy Daisy, Lattice Stitch, Bullion Knots, French Knots, Eyelet, Straight Stitch, Whip Stitch Includes: material list, flower diagram, order of stitching, and a tutorial on interesting ways to finish your punch needle embroidery.
Designed by Kim Beamish
www.craftycreations–beamish.blogspot.ca
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Garden Lady Hooped Wall Hanging
Inger Waage, a Norwegian artist (1923-1995), explored whimsical garden scenes in her functional dinnerware and serving pieces for the Starvangerflint company in the middle of the last century. They were seen as very avant-garde and somewhat bohemian even then. Her work has enjoyed growing popularity among midcentury modern collectors today. In this homage to her work, Nancy Devine created a garden that begins in the gardener’s imagination and flows out to the world. She created her Garden Lady design on Essex linen and a myriad of variegated threads and embellishments that have lived in her stash for long enough. I hope you try this free-flowing design that holds heaven, wildflowers, and a sense of bliss. None of the stitches used are complicated, and even the placement template is just a guideline. Make this garden lady your very own. The stitches used to hand embroider the Garden Lady Wall Hanging: satin stitch, stem stitch, split stitch, lazy daisy stitch, French knots. Thread painting by machine was used for the leaves and flower centers.
Nancy Devine
nancywhiskeynancyo.blogspot.com
The Challenge: A Floral Crewel Stumpwork Design
While Bunny Goodman was taking the Embroiderers’ Association of Canada (EAC) Crewel Advanced course she was given a challenge by Helen McCrindle, her EAC Crewel Course Counselor at the time. She asked Bunny to design and complete a project by combining two methods of embroidery: stumpwork and crewel yarn work. Thus began a journey into the design of this project she appropriately named The Challenge. Before the invention of the camera, traveling salesmen would take along hand-drawn pictures or better yet a scaled-down model of what the full-sized project would look like. The Challenge’s first embroidery is the small, miniature salesman’s model; the second embroidery is the full-sized larger project. The Design Bunny incorporates motifs that are common and popular in crewel designs surrounded by an embroidered border. Everyone can identify carnations, pomegranates, and bumblebees. Nature at its best! The stitches used: stumpwork, crewel, couching, Turkey knot stitches, double buttonhole stitch, fly stitch, Pekinese stitch, vertical satin stitches, horizontal weave, and straight stitches Includes: design template, materials, instruction photos, and instructions are offered alongside the photos in an article format. It does not include how to make the stitches.
Bunny Goodman
EAC Seminar 2019
Recipient of the EAC Original Design Awards – Professional Division
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On the Other Side of the Picket Fence Wall Quilt
A row of Gerber daisies pops up above the picket fence to say hello! Appliqué, piecing, curved checkerboard piecing, thread play, and colour wash are exciting quilting methods used to make this sunny wall quilt. This quilted piece has a pieced background with green at the bottom behind the fence moving into the blue for the sky. It has a colour wash effect, and the sky is a curved checkerboard pieced design.
Designer: Jennifer Houlden
Quilts by Jen
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705.835.3064
Flower Power Wall Quilt
Elaine Theriault loves learning new tools and keeping things simple, which almost sounds like an oxymoron. While she’s very comfortable with her Husqvarna Viking Designer EPIC 2 for the piecing and the appliqué, she decided to learn how to cut the appliqué shapes with the Brother Scan N Cut. These can be cut by hand if you don't have a Scan N Cut. There are numerous ways to construct this wall quilt but for this project she decided to make three small quilts with one flower per quilt and tack them to a quilted base. Remove the tack stitches and switch out the small quilts for something else. If you prefer to make a table runner, piecing the flower blocks right into the sashing will make the project flat, preferable for a table runner. You could make just the flower quilts or add more or fewer blocks to suit your needs. The appliquéd flowers are large, with gentle curves, so the appliqué is FAST and easy. It's a super easy project and will add a fun splash of colour where you need it.
Designed by Elaine Theriault
crazyquilteronabike.blogspot.ca
Cross Stitch Black Rose
This design is based on a pencil sketch Jo Gatenby did for an art class. She always thought it would make a cool cross-stitch pattern, so the theme for Issue 59 gave her a chance to try it out! If you’re not a fan of black, she suggests, of course, to choose only 6 shades of your favourite colour to stitch this beauty. Select complementary colours from palest to darkest and go for it!
Designed by Jo Gatenby
X’s & Oh’s
RR 3
Tweed, Ontario K0K 3J0
613.478.5599
www.xs-and-ohs.com
Leafy Vines Wrap
One’s first thoughts about gardens are often about colour, flowers, and the birds and butterflies that they attract. But gardens are also about foliage and various calming shades of green. In this design, foliage takes center stage. Vines span the length of this wrap, enhanced by a twin leaf motif along the lower edge. The yarn is Universal Yarn Bella Cash, a soft, round, fine-weight yarn with good stitch definition, and a luxurious feel thanks to the cashmere in the blend. With instructions for two widths, you can knit the design as a scarf or a wrap and personalize the length by adding or subtracting 8-row repeats. Includes: material list, instructions included to make a scarf or a wrap, pattern instructions are written and charted.
Designed by Nancy Lekx
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Blooming Beauties Rug
This stunning rug was inspired by Lorna’s backyard gardens. Lorna was also very inspired by rug hooker Deanne Fitzpatrick and her method of hooking rugs. Lorna faithfully watches her live show every Thursday afternoon. Deanne’s painterly style of hooking is very impressive to Lorna. She checked her stash of yarn about two months before she started hooking the rug and visited her local thrift stores to purchase yarns to complement her stash. This experience added greatly to the fun we often experience when contemplating making a new rug. Ultimately, this rug was entirely hooked using yarn from thrift stores. Lorna is known for her love of bright colours which shows in most of her rugs.
Lorna Vogel
Mini Flower Bouquet Cushion
During Michelle Hartrick’s journey to create a memory of her mother and their shared love of colour she was inspired to create a project with a large monogram letter filled with small, embroidered flowers. The Design Appliqué feature on her HUSQVARNA® VIKING® sewing and embroidery machine allowed her to create a template for the small floral designs in the shape of the letter M. Of course, the Design Appliqué feature on the HUSQVARNA® VIKING® allows one to choose their own letter for your project. Once the machine embroidery part is completed, there are several options for using this machine embroidery piece, as a decorative cushion in this case. Includes: full material list including sewing feet, step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish this pattern using HUSQVARNA® VIKING® DESIGNER EPIC™ 2 or DESIGNER RUBY™ 90 or DESIGNER SAPPHIRE™ 85 sewing and embroidery machine. Instruction photos for piecing together the cushion cover.
Garden Therapy Quilted Banner
Every spring Clodagh Coker, owner of The Quilt Store, can hardly wait to check out what new growth is poking out from the previously frozen ground and plan the annual trip to the local nursery to buy annuals and seedlings for a veggie garden. There’s nothing more rewarding and delicious than a fresh garden salad. Several years ago, she received a gift of a wooden sign with the saying “Gardening is Cheaper than Therapy and you can get Tomatoes”. It has been hanging in her kitchen ever since and is the inspiration for this quilted project which she discovered is equally as therapeutic. Blanket stitching around all the appliqué seemed like a daunting task at the outset, however, once she found the rhythm of the machine stitching, she found it to be very relaxing. Includes: material list with links to shopping, Garden Therapy Quilted Banner appliqué templates, instructions diagrams for constructing banner, order of stitching.
Designed by Clodagh Coker
The Quilt Store
17817 Leslie Street, Unit 40
Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 8C6
www.thequiltstore.ca
905.853.7001
Owl-Flower Pencil Case
Elements of flowers as animals have been floating through Olesya Lebedenko’s imagination for several years. But one day walking by a garden full of gerberas she envisioned them with owl faces surrounded by colorful petals. She created this pencil case to carry with her wherever she goes. “I love flowers and wildlife! I always have a flower in my pocket!” says Olesya. This Owl-Flower pencil case is made using sewing and quilting basics and appliquéing the flower on the front side of the case using blind stitching by hand or sewing machine if you prefer. Includes: material list, instructions, templates, and order of stitching, step-by-step instruction photos.
Designed by Olesya Lebedenko
Patreon.com/olesyalebedenkodesign
[email protected]
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