We hope you have enjoyed making your first blocks over the past eight weeks! In this issue you will be busy sewing Dresden Plate and Penny Circle blocks, hand stitching the Tea Garden and Queen Bee blocks and appliquéing the Hare and Hexie block.
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Homespun Block of the Month 2023 – Owl & Hare Hollow
Finished size: 194 × 159cm (76½ × 62½in)
Stitches used: Backstitch, cross stitch, detached chain (lazy daisy) stitch, French knot, running stitch, satin stitch, stem stitch, straight stitch
Note: Materials required for the entire project were listed in Part 1, published in Homespun 24.1 (February/March 2023 issue). They are from the Owl & Hare Hollow, Blume and Grow and Birdhouse Basics ranges designed by Natalie herself. Requirements are based on fabric 107cm (42in) wide, except for the backing fabric, which is 147cm (58in) wide and the Devonstone cream cotton/linen blend fabric, which is 137cm (54in) wide. To make your quilt unique and to achieve a scrappy look, select fabrics from your assorted prints at random to sew each block. Use the photos of Natalie’s quilt as a guide or just pick and choose as you like. The applique method used is needleturn, but you can adapt the instructions to your preferred method. Seam allowances of ¼in are used throughout for the piecing. Two strands of embroidery thread are used throughout, unless otherwise stated. Instructions are given for working from the printed Pattern Sheet in the magazines, but you can download the digital patterns from www.homespun.net.au and print them out instead.
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