Australian Homespun - June 2018

CONTENTS

June 2018

Shopping

16 PATTERN &

PALETTE PLAY

Enchanted garden

fabrics: Wild fl orals

122 ON THE ROAD

Craft shopping in West

Victoria and Melbourne

126 MARKET PLACE

Product browsing for

your stitching needs

Sourcing

10 PIN INTEREST

A feast of creative

and crafty ideas

81 WHAT A CUTE IDEA!

All the fun of the fair

with a ferris-wheel quilt

101 ANOTHER CUTE

IDEA!

Upcycling jean

seams and hems

129 BOOK NOOK

Read to succeed

130 STOCKISTS

130 NEXT MONTH

Sneaky peek at what’s

in July Homespun

Showing

8 READERS’

SHOWCASE

Readers share their

crafting successes

22 SELVEDGE

Designer Edge: Lisa

Mattock brings

vintage into vogue

24 GETTING COSY

WITH DESIGNERS

Michelle Marvig and

Val Laird reveal

what they’re made of

and what they make

54 WELCOME TO

MY WORKROOM

Ann Wood’s dream

studio and home space

SUBSCRIBING

DON’T MISS

THIS MONTH’S

SPECIAL OFFER

Stitching
26 QUILT
Spots on Spots
Debby Dewhurst
34 ALPACA SOFTIES
Moving from Mountains
Anthea Christian
42 QUILT
Society Pies
Stephanie Cunnyngham
60 CROCHET
SPECTACLES’ CASE
Creative Vision
64 CROSS-STITCH
LAMPSHADE
A Shade More Beautiful
Shannan Grierson
76 QUICK STITCH:
ROPE COASTERS
Rope Tricks
Cassandra Madge
82 HOOP EMBROIDERY
Nature’s Jewels
Carina Envoldsen-Harris
88 QUILT
Inside Out
Samantha Dorn
96 KNITTED BLANKET
Basketweave Brrr-buster
102 PRAM CUSHION
Stepping Out
With My Baby
Yvonne Westwood
110 BLOCK OF THE
MONTH PART 5
My Butterfl y Patch
Sarah and Rachel
Roxburgh

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PATCHWORK•APPLIQUÉEMBROIDERYCROCHETKNITTINGTOYMAKING

SPOTS, DOTS

& FLORALSFUN PATCHWORK CIRCLES

CROSS-STITCHLAMPSHADE

FABRIC ARTWORKS FROM FLEA-MARKET FINDS

STEP-BY-STEP:

CROCHETED POUCHLT S

FLORAL EMBROIDERY

KNITTED WINTER BLANKET

Surround your light with thread flowers

EASY!SEW