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A Complete Guide to Contemporary Quilting
Part 4: Design with stitches
with JULIUS ARTHUR — British textile artist specialising in handmade quilts and unique textile objects for the home.
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By varying your stitch length and how close together you stitch, you can achieve varying effects. Explore how to design different effects with your stitches.
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Part 4 - Design with Stitches
You can achieve varying effects by ranging your stitch length and how close together your stitches are.
Travelling with Your Needle
- You can use your quilting stitches to create different patterns. Travelling with your needle accentuates the shapes on your quilt.
- Turn your quilt in the opposite direction to the one you want to be quilting in.
- Thread your needle and tie a knot at the end.
- Take your needle under the quilt top and through the wadding.
- Bring the needle up where you want to start quilting.
- Pop your knot off, and trim off the thread tail.
- Go through all three layers of the quilt, taking a small stitch and following the scored lines you have marked on the quilt top.
- Travel your needle through the quilt. To create your last stitch, take the needle through the quilt top, through the batting and back out of the quilt top where your next row of stitching starts.
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Julius Arthur
British textile artist specialising in handmade quilts and unique textile objects for the home.
Julius Arthur is a textiles designer specialising in quilts and unique objects for the home. His design practice, House of Quinn, creates small-batch homeware using traditional and age-old craft techniques and practices to cultivate contemporary design narratives onto familiar objects. His work is grounded in uncomplicated - often repurposed - materials and inspired by an abstract view of the places and things around us. Growing up in Cornwall, memories of childhood and a sense of home and belonging intersect in Julius' work. Quilts have become a staple motif in Julius' work - a way of combining materials, connecting through stitch and exploring shape, form and line - and the subject of his book Modern Quilting.
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