Pinball Wizard

Using both your foundation and curved-piecing skills, you too can create this dynamic modern quilt design. Using two of her favourite traditional patterns, Double Wedding Ring and Pickle Dish, Jo has combined them and simplified the blocks by using quarter-circles, strips and HST units. The design looks complex, but the blocks are actually very straight-forward and you can use up some of your scraps. A mixture of different low-volume fabrics — light neutral fabrics with just a hint of pattern — make up the background, but you could substitute a plain, light background fabric. Jo says this quilt reminds her of a psychedelic pinball arcade machine from the 1970s. What do you think?

Finished size: 184cm (72½in) square Finished block size: 16in square

Designer: Jo Avery

My Bear Paw

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www.mybearpaw.com

Materials

Assorted low-volume print fabrics to total about 3m (3 ¼ yd) (background)

Assorted solid and tone-on-tone print fabrics in a range of greens and turquoises to total about 1.8m (2yd)

Assorted solid and tone-on-tone print fabrics in a range of oranges to total about 90cm (1yd)

1m (1 ⅛) black print fabric

Assorted solid and tone-on-tone print fabrics in