Australian Homespun — May 2017

CONTENTS

May 2017

Shopping

20 PATTERN &

PALETTE PLAY

Playtime fabrics:

Sweet designs for young

girls, including fl orals,

swans, bears & balloons

120 ON THE ROAD

Craft shopping in

North and Central

Queensland

126 MARKET PLACE

Product browsing for

your stitching needs

Showing

& telling

8 READERS’

SHOWCASE

Readers share

stitching successes

24 SELVEDGE

Designer Edge:

Jane Jackson translates

houndstooth and

tweed into felted art

that celebrates wild and

woolly Northern England

66 SPECIAL FEATURE:

AN INTERVIEW

WITH TARA MOSS

Author, TV presenter and

human rights advocate

now turns her attention

to stitching

118 TRIAL A PRODUCT

Westalee Ruler Foot

and Stencils

128 BOOK NOOK

Read to succeed

Sourcing

14 PIN INTEREST

A feast of creative

and crafty ideas

16 DIARY DATES

Mark these great craft

events on your calendar

49 WHAT A CUTE IDEA!

A notions sculpture

to honour stitching

129 NEXT MONTH

What’s in the June

issue of Homespun

130 STOCKISTS

& CONTACTS

SUBSCRIBING

DON’T MISS

THIS MONTH’S

SPECIAL OFFER

Stitching
30 QUILT
Sorbet Garden
Lyn Bertram and
Donna Warren
40 SOFTIES
Bouncing Bunnies
Fiona Tully
50 CUSHION
Enchanting Forest
Val Laird
60 CROSS STITCH
Purrfect Paris
Steph Chard
70 KNITTED BABY
OUTFIT & SOFTIE
Putting on the Pup
76 QUILT
Posy Patch
Kim Schaefer
82 BAG
Shine Your Light
Minki Kim
93 NEEDLEPOINT
When the Wind Blows
Barbara Reinfeld
100 QUILT
Mary Rose
Lesley McConnell
108 BLOCK OF THE
MONTH PART 4
Going to the
Zoo, Zoo, Zoo
(Lion & Tiger block)
Jemima Flendt and
Claire Turpin

91

your heart in your hands MAY 2017

aus

tra

lian

A NEW LOVE IN HER LIFEAuthor, TV presenter, journalistand now passionate stitcher!

No. 168 AU $9.95* NZ $12.20* (Both incl. GST) (Vol. 18.05)

FRESH IDEAS

FOR STITCHERS

Tara Moss

EUCALYPTUSF NEEDLEPOINTION

PATCHWORKPUPTOTEBAGR BABY

BROTHERRIS CROSS STITCH&SISTER BUNNY SOFTIES

3 GLORIOUS FLORAL QUILTS

Homespun 7