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The Creative Craft Show & The Stitching Show 25-27 September 2025 • Immerse yourself in workshops, make and takes, demonstrations and stalls to browse for a jam-packed crafty day out. The Creative Craft Show will also be at Glasgow SEC from 23-26 October and Birmingham NEC from 30 October-2 November. Find more details on the website. 10:00-16:30 Admission: from £10 (early-bird), £12 on the door. Under 16s go free when accompanied by an adult. Westpoint Arena, Clyst St Mary, Exeter EX5 1DJ www.creativecraftshow.co.uk Abermule Quilters Exhibition 27-28 September 2025 • Head to beautiful Mid Wales to see a display of club members’ quilting and craft creations as well as pieces to buy. You will find trader stalls, a raffle and refreshments with homemade cakes (including Welsh cakes, of course!).…

When we came up with the idea of a Today’s Quilter calendar as a gift for our readers, there really was never any doubt who we wanted to work with. Luckily, he felt the same! Kaffe Fassett has been sharing his joy for bright colours and vibrant patterns for over 50 years. Inside this 2026 calendar, we bring you six images of our favourite quilts from Kaffe’s books to enjoy all year round, plus monthly planners to fill up with those longed-for holidays, craft shows, quilt group meet-ups and more. To coincide with the launch of the new Kaffe Fassett Collective 2025 fabric collection, our Technical Editor, Paula Hope, has also designed an exclusive quilt pattern that is included in the calendar. A glorious celebration of everything we love about…

Good Tidings Trends come and go but rich shades of berry red and leaf green will forever be our go-to when we’re looking to bring festive warmth into our homes. Makower’s Good Tidings fabric collection has encapsulated this traditional elegance in abundance. The classic poinsettia, holly, wreaths, mistletoe, snowflake and star motifs are exquisitely embellished with gold detailing to bring a luxurious feel to your holiday crafting. The range’s advent calendar kit caught our eye – with patterned numbered pockets to sew around a stylish Christmas tree, it’s a simple yet effective project that’s perfect for beginners. www.makoweruk.com Editor’s pıck It wouldn’t be Christmas at home without a tree adorned with baubles and lights and gorgeously wrapped gifts stacked up underneath. How about adding a tree skirt to give that…

BEHIND THE QUILT FULL CIRCLE “As a student studying metal work at art school, I had a secret creative side-line in sewing and knitting. When a fellow metalsmith and I heard that Kaffe Fassett was visiting the textile department to talk about colour (at the time he had a wonderful TV show about the subject), we asked if we could sit at the back to listen. We were given an unreserved no, so instead we bought tickets to a talk he was giving at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. I’m almost too embarrassed to say that this was about 34 years ago! “All these years later, to design a quilt to show off the fantastic Kaffe Fassett Collective 2025 fabrics from FreeSpirit, well what a joyous circular honour! –and how…

We love seeing what the Today’s Quilter readers have been making and here’s just a few of our favourite projects this month. From mother to son I am a Portuguese amateur quilter and Today’s Quilter reader. I had a lot of fun making this quilt adapted from a pattern in Issue 100 by Deirdre Bond-Abel. After the appliqué, I quilted the entire quilt. I quilted the centre on a rented Bernina sewing machine and the rest on my home domestic machine. It was an adventure, but I managed it! The flying geese fabrics were used from other projects in shades of blue and brown because this beautiful quilt is for my son André’s bed. Helena Pires, via email How lucky André is to have been gifted such a beautiful quilt.…

BEHIND THE QUILT O CHRISTMAS TREE “The basis of the delicate Christmas trees in this quilt are the traditional pieced Tree of Life blocks. I have adapted the shape of that classic block to make trees which are shaped more like our traditional pine Christmas trees. I have added little stars onto the top by making tiny Ohio Stars which look like Sawtooth Stars with an Economy Square in the centre when they are placed on point. The baubles on the stars are raw-edge appliquéd but the template could be used for needle-turn appliqué if a more traditional finish was preferred. Borders of Lemoyne Stars in an assortment of red patterned fabrics frame the trees and add an additional Christmassy element. The lovely, simple colour palette of the fabric line…

The Festival of Quilts’ mission is to foster and celebrate the creativity of textile artists on an international stage. As well as inspiring exhibitions by individuals, groups and museum collections from around the world, visitors can also see a fantastic and diverse range of quilts in the competition gallery. Open to all, the competition is inclusive and welcomes makers of all abilities and backgrounds. This year over 700 competition quilts were on show by makers from across the globe, and here we share the winning entries from each category. Congratulations to everyone who entered a quilt, winner or not, as it’s your participation that makes the Festival the special event it is! THE FESTIVAL OF QUILTS 30 July – 2 August 2026 Keep up to date with details about entering…

BEHIND THE QUILT BALTIMORE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS “I have sewn the whole of this quilt together and found that by pinning each tacking line to the corresponding tacking line, it went together beautifully. It is well worth the extra effort put in at the beginning of the project to make sure it all lines up correctly. I really hope that you enjoy this month’s stitching and I look forward to seeing images shared on social media of your work. My best advice is to mark the final block dimensions on the back of your fabric in pencil or, if you have tacked a line along all of the edges as advised in part 1, you can pin these together and either hand piece or machine stitch along the line…