Quilters Companion

Simple shapes to complex designs

Anita Ellis

www.hillsidequilting.com.au

Hi there everyone, I’m back again with more fun quilting ideas. Each time we explore a new way of quilting, I hope you can add it to your own quilts, building up a repertoire of ideas for the future.

This issue we will be taking a simple shape and turning it into increasingly complex-looking designs that are not complex. After all, only one shape is stitched, just in lots of different ways.

How do we quilt a circle?

A circle can be anything from an organic freehand-drawn design to a precise circle created by templates or even a computerised quilting system.

Freehand circles get

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