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Many of us have a particular fabric designer whose collections we covet and collect. For me, it’s Tula Pink – her signature palette of vibrant colours and intricate prints has earned her fans the world over and each new line continues to surprise and delight! It’s my honour to present to you an in-depth look at her forthcoming range Linework, which takes a slightly different tack to the super-saturated prints we’ve come to know and love, yet still carries her distinctive style and inimitable flair for colour. Tula’s been talking to the team about her inspiration for the line and what life has been like in lockdown at Tula HQ. And, of course, we have a selection of beautiful projects to get you sewing! That’s just the supplement – the…

YOU WILL NEED ■ One (1) Layer Cake or twenty (20) 10in print squares ■ Grey, green, blue and pink background fabrics: ¾yd each ■ White background fabric: 35/8yds ■ Binding fabric: ¾yd ■ Backing fabric: 4½yds ■ Batting: 80in square FINISHED SIZE ■ 72in square NOTES ■ Seam allowance are ¼in throughout, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams to one side, unless otherwise instructed. ■ CST = corner square triangle. ■ Quilted by Jayne Brereton of Quilters Trading Post. FABRICS USED ■ Print fabrics are from the Early Bird collection by Bonnie & Camille for Moda Fabrics. ■ Solids are Bella Solids in Flax, Lime, Seaglass and Betty’s Pink, also by Moda Fabrics. NO TEMPLATES NEEDED! THIS COMPLEX-LOOKING DESIGN IS SIMPLER THAN YOU THINK CUTTING OUT 1 From each…

YOU WILL NEED Makes one (1) cushion ■ Centre print: 4½in square ■ Middle print: one (1) fat eighth ■ Outer print: one (1) fat eighth ■ Background fabric: ¼yd ■ Cushion backing fabric: ½yd ■ Lining fabric: 20in square ■ Batting: 20in square FINISHED SIZE ■ 18in square NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ RST = right sides together. ■ Press all fabrics well before cutting. FABRICS USED All fabrics are from the Sonata collection by Amy Sinibaldi for Art Gallery Fabrics. USE FABRICS TO CREATE TOTALLY DIFFERENT EFFECTS WITH THE SAME PATTERN! CUTTING OUT 1 From the centre print cut: ■ One (1) 4¼in square. 2 From the middle print cut: ■ Four (4) 4¼in squares. 3 From the outer print cut: ■ Eight…

YOU WILL NEED ■ Grey fabrics: ½yd total ■ Red, green, peach and blue print fabrics: ⅜/ yd total each ■ Background fabric: 3¾yds ■ Backing fabric: 4½yds ■ Batting: 80in square ■ Binding fabric: / yd FINISHED SIZE ■ 72in square MAKE YOUR PRINT FABRICS THE FOCUS WITH NEGATIVE SPACE AND SIMPLE QUILTING! NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams open throughout, unless otherwise instructed. ■ HST = Half-square Triangle. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ WST = wrong sides together. ■ Lynne used a variety of prints in each colour for greater variety in her quilt. ■ Lynne used 279 80:20 Cotton Mix Batting from Vlieseline (vlieseline.com/en) ■ Lynne used combination of Aurifil 50wt thread for piecing and 40wt thread for quilting…

YOU WILL NEED ■ One (1) print Jelly Roll ■ Background fabric: 3⅛/ yds ■ Batting: 68in square ■ Backing fabric: 3¾yds ■ Binding fabric: ½yd ■ Forty four (44) copies of the FPP Template FINISHED SIZE ■ 60in square NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams to one side, unless otherwise instructed. ■ RST = right sides together. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ FPP = Foundation Paper Piecing. ■ For FPP, set your stitch length to 1.5. ■ FPP template includes seam allowance around the outer edge only. ■ Wash and press all fabrics well before cutting. ■ Print fabrics supplied by Ruby Star Society (rubystarsociety.com) ■ Solid fabrics supplied by Moda (modafabrics.com) ■ If you’re not using a Jelly Roll, you…

NOTES ■ Seam allowance are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Appliqué templates do not include seam allowance. ■ If you precut all your background squares at the start of the quilt, disregard step 1. ■ Press fabrics well before cutting. FABRICS USED All fabrics are Kona Cotton Solids by Robert Kaufman, in Snow, Dusty Peach, Lupine, Hibiscus, Nautical, Cadet, Dresden Blue, Seafoam and Sage. CUTTING OUT 1 From the white fabric cut: ■ One (1) 13in square for the background of each block. 2 Cut out the templates and trace around them on the fabric using a chalk marker on the right side of the fabric. Refer to the Layout Diagram for each block for the colours of each piece. Make sure to leave space between pieces to add a…

In the print Lemur Me Alone, I had a real conundrum with the background. To get all the detail on the lemur and the tree, I had to use a lot of black and white. I would lose half the print on a white background or half on a black one. Introducing a background of grey felt like cheating. I almost scrapped the print, but my mom and the FreeSpirit creative director pushed me to figure it out. I am so glad I did because it is my favourite print now! The solution was to create a tiny pin dot background to give the illusion of grey while still meeting the brief. I added the flat multi-colour dots as abstract fruit in the tree and as a reference to the…

Which is your most used and favourite collection, and why? The collection I have used the most is True Colors, including Pom Poms and Tent Stripes, and the new ones. I can’t stop making quilts out of them. It’s actually becoming a bit of an issue; I really do need to move on! What are your three favourite collections? My favourites are all special to me for emotional reasons. My first collection for FreeSpirit Fabrics, Parisville, holds a special place in my heart. Up until then I hadn’t really been that successful in my fabric-design career. When I moved to FreeSpirit, I put it all on the line. I went crazy with scale, colour, and subject matter. At the time I thought at least if no one likes this, I…

TROOPING THE COLOR Following the success of Tula’s limited edition tin, Aurifil have more goodies for the Tula troops, this time for her colourful collection HomeMade. The custom-designed box holds coordinating Aurifil 50wt thread featuring a total of ten small spools and four large in Tula’s go-to colours for piecing, quilting, EPP, appliqué, and more. It’s another collector’s item for fans – gotta catch ‘em all! Aurifil, £66.60 PEDAL TO THE METAL With their exclusive polka-dot faceplates and rainbow-finish parts, two special-edition Bernina quilting machines have been loaded with Tula-designed extras, including a collection of built-in decorative stitches for quilting, embellishment, and embroidery. No wonder Tula calls these machines ’magical’! Bernina 750QE £2,995, 770QE £3,745 LINE UP, LINE UP! Tula worked hard to achieve perfect lines in Linework, so make…

If you're anything like us, you'll already love Tula Pink's new fabric range, Linework! Along with this month's LP&Q, you'll find Tula's original pattern for the Opening Night quilt that shows off the collection perfectly… isn't it amazing? The quilt comprises of just one block design, but by mixing it up with different prints and rainbow colours it looks way more complicated than it really is! Our favourite part? The gorgeous monochrome two-tone background, which really makes the colours pop. Oh, and that incredible quilting. And the Tula branded backing fabric… it's too hard to choose! Plus, inside you'll find in-depth interviews with the designer herself, a gallery of her previous collections and designs by both Kelly Bowser (of @kelbysews Instagram fame) and UK modern quilting royalty Lynne Goldsworthy. Enjoy!…

YOU WILL NEED ■ Light pink fabric: 1¼yds ■ Navy blue fabric: ½yd ■ Mustard fabric: 1⅜ yds ■ Mint green fabric: 1yd ■ Burgundy fabric: fat quarter ■ White fabric: 3⅜ yds ■ Backing fabric: 5½yds ■ Binding fabric: ¾yds ■ Batting: 90in square FINISHED SIZE ■ 80in square NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams open throughout, unless otherwise instructed. ■ RST = right sides together. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ HST = Half-square Triangle. ■ QST = Quarter-square Triangle. ■ Fabrics supplied by Hantex (hantexonline.co.uk) ■ Quilted by Cath Brough (cumbrianlongarmquilting.co.uk) FABRICS USED Fabrics are from the Mayfair collection by Amy Sinibaldi for Art Gallery Fabrics. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO FABRIC PLACEMENT FOR DIRECTIONAL PRINTS! CUTTING OUT 1 From the…

YOU WILL NEED ■ Fabric A: 2¾yds ■ Fabric B: ½yd ■ Fabric C: ¾yd ■ Fabric D: ½yd ■ Fabric E: ¼yd ■ Fabric F: ¼yd ■ Fabric G: ½yd ■ Fabric H: ¼yd ■ Fabric I: ¼yd ■ Fabric J: ½yd ■ Fabric K: ¼yd ■ Fabric L: ½yd ■ Binding fabric: ½yd ■ Backing fabric: 3½yds ■ Batting: 60in x 78in FINISHED SIZE ■ 54in x 72in NOTES ■ Seam allowance are ¼in throughout, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams to one side, unless otherwise instructed. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ HST = Half-square Triangle. ■ WST = wrong sides together. ■ Press fabrics well before cutting. ■ Fabric supplied by Robert Kaufman (robertkaufman.com) FABRICS USED Solids are all Kona Cotton Solids by Robert Kaufman,…

YOU WILL NEED To make the green apple: ■ Green canvas fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Brown canvas fabric: 10in square ■ Mid green fabric: 8½in square ■ Green print fabrics: three (3) fat sixteenths ■ Cotton trim: 16in length ■ Toy stuffing ■ Lightweight iron on interfacing: 16in x 7¼in ■ Batting: 4½in x 8in ■ One (1) copy each of the Apple Front, Apple Back, Leaf, Stalk and Stalk End templates FINISHED SIZE ■ 15in wide NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press seams to one side, unless otherwise instructed. ■ RST = right sides together. ■ RS = right side. ■ Templates include seam allowances, where necessary. FABRICS USED Fabrics used include a Kona Cotton Solid by Robert Kaufman in Grasshopper, Apple…

While I love taking workshops and I have many friends that adore their quilting guilds, access to those group quilting activities is often dependent on competing resources (time, money, proximity). What I LOVE about Instagram is that it’s free. And global. And oh-so-perfect for an introvert like myself! Here are five ways to connect with quilters from across the #quiltstagram: 1 JOIN IN This may seem silly or obvious, but start a quilting-only Instagram account and set it to public. You don’t have to post often, but when you do use hashtags like #quilting or #patchwork or #igquiltcommunity so fellow quilters can follow you. Again, this may seem like common sense to you, but it definitely wasn’t to me (so I can’t be the only one… right?!). 2 COMMENT Again,…

When designing every new collection, I start by asking myself the same question ‘What will surprise people the most?’. I have to be myself and it still needs to feel like it comes from my world, but I don’t want anything that I do to be expected. I am well known for my use of colour and had just launched my True Colors collection (46 prints in a full-spectrum rainbow) when I started designing Linework. So the challenge to surprise people again was obvious – use no colour at all! The range started out completely black and white, but I managed to drop some colour back in. I experimented with a few concepts to introduce colour until I hit on the one that felt right, resulting in the complete rainbow…

Quilting, by definition, is a hobby. Hobbies, by definition, are supposed to be fun. So what are you supposed to do when it’s not? This month, I’m tackling some of the reasons we quilters find ourselves searching for our sewjo (read: sewing mojo) and suggesting a few ways to find it again. 1 Options are everything I’ll admit, I have more WIPs than nearly every other quilter I know. In fact, it’s a running joke that I keep them in what I affectionately call ‘The Vault of Shame.’ But one thing’s for sure, I have plenty of options when it comes to choosing what to work on, and by having so many different projects going at any given time, I can switch up what I’m working on each and every…

YOU WILL NEED ■ Fabric A (orange) 4in x 8in ■ Fabric B (pink) 4in x 8in ■ Fabric C (yellow) 7in square ■ Fabric D (purple) 7in square ■ Fabric E (coral) one (1) fat eighth ■ Low volume scraps: ¾yd total ■ Batting 16in x 30in ■ Heavy-weight fusible interfacing: 14in x 30in FINISHED SIZE ■ 14½in square NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ HST = Half-square Triangle. ■ QST = Quarter-square Triangle. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ Sample pieced by Sarah Griffiths. FABRICS USED Fabrics are from Buffalo Flats by Violet Craft for Robert Kaufman. GET SCRAP HAPPY AND SEW LEFTOVER PRINTS INTO THESE 3IN HST AND QST UNITS CUTTING OUT 1 From each of Fabrics A and B cut: ■…

YOU WILL NEED To make the playmat: ■ Pink fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Orange fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Yellow fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Green fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Blue fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Purple fabric: one (1) fat quarter ■ Light blue fabric (backing) 1¼yds ■ Batting: 42in square ■ One (1) copy each of the Dresden Fan and Large Hexagon templates ■ Fourteen (14) copies of the Small Hexagon template FINISHED SIZE ■ 36in diameter NOTES ■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted. ■ Press all fabrics well before cutting. ■ WOF = width of fabric. ■ RST = right sides together. ■ EPP = English Paper Piecing. ■ Dresden Fan template includes ¼in seam allowance. ■ Large…

Enter a world where a rainbow-tailed lemur rubs shoulders with multicoloured zebras; ombré squirrels frolic with Prince Charming in frog form; and Neptunia Von Black, a beautiful one-eyed pirate (she lost the other battling a sea turtle) meets Marie Antoinette on her best hair day ever. If, like us, you’re already a member of Tula's Troops, some of these characters might already be hiding out in your fabric stash. For those of you new to the world of Tula Pink, this is the perfect time to get acquainted. Linework (a bit of a departure from her usual colour-saturated look) is Tula’s latest fabric collection and at Love Patchwork & Quilting we’ve fallen hard for the monochrome prints with their enticing flashes of rainbow hues. Any one of the prints makes…

You’ve been collaborating with FreeSpirit Fabrics since 2010, designing countless covetable prints before that date and since. Did you meet any new or unexpected challenges with your latest collection? Linework actually took quite a bit longer to draw than my other collections. Colour fills a lot of visual space and can really make something dynamic; I would say that colour is a designer’s most important tool. Without it, I had to put all of that into the drawing itself. Every print had to be much more detailed and I had to find creative ways to shade objects and animals. A whole lot trickier than I had anticipated, that creative problem-solving really flexed my muscles – it was exciting! The other challenge with black and white is there is only one…

When sewing lots of pieces together, it’s worth checking your seam allowance is an accurate ¼in, to make sure your final block measures up correctly. Cut three 1½in square scraps of fabric and sew into one row using a ¼in seam. Make sure you use the same type of fabric and thread you’ll be using in your block. Press this scrap row as you normally would. Then measure the centre block. If your seams are correct, it should be exactly 1in across. Also measure the whole row, it should be exactly 3½in across. If your measurements are smaller than this, you need to sew a narrower seam, and if your measurements are larger, you’ll need a wider seam.…